Here are the slides from Susannah Axelrod & Lindsey Smith's PuppetConf 2016 presentation called Puppet Enterprise Roadmap and How to Succeed with It. Watch the videos at https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLV86BgbREluVjwwt-9UL8u2Uy8xnzpIqa

1. Puppet Enterprise Roadmap
Susannah Axelrod, Director of Product Management
Lindsey Smith, Sr. Product Manager

3. Key areas of roadmap innovation
Situational awareness
Datacenter standard
Enterprise readiness
Change with confidence
Bridge to the future
(PE release cadence)

4. Situational awareness
Q3 2016
• Change reporting: Know what changed
on your systems and why
Later
• Resource-level visibility
• Vulnerability detection and evaluation
Gain insight into state of infrastructure

5. Corrective change workflow
Select report view details

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7. Datacenter standard
If it has an IP address, our goal is to manage it with Puppet
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8. Datacenter standard
Recent and Upcoming
• Agent Platforms
IBM z Systems
Cisco IOS XR(Evolved XR)
Devices
Mac OS X Sierra
Windows Server 2016
• Windows Chocolatey module
• IBM Websphere

9. Core Resources
Management Abstractions
Applications
Datacenter standard – Windows management
First-Class PartnershipFirst-Class Partnership
Applications
Management Abstractions
Core Resources
Puppet Agent

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11. Enterprise readiness
Q4 2016
● Lower cost to use Puppet:
○ High Availability
○ Install and upgrade tooling
○ Configurable Facter
● Integrated solutions:
○ New integration with VMware vRA/vRO
○ Secrets handling
Later
● Multi-tenancy
Automation and integrations to streamline your company’s infrastructure

12. High Availability in Puppet Enterprise
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● Puppet is critical to your ability to
operate
● Maintain continuity of catalog
compilation
● End-to-end workflow to prepare for
and live through failover
○ Provision and sync replica
○ Failover to replica
○ Promote replica to master
○ Provision a new replica

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14. Creating a new VM is easy, but…
● Not security hardened or compliant with Standard
Operating Environment (SOE)
● Not ready for to do useful work
● No central visibility into the VM during its lifecycle
● No way to automate updating once it has been
provisioned
Still Lots of Room for Improvement
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15. Who are the People in Your Neighborhood?
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Puppet Practitioner
● Expert in Puppet-driven management of configuration
● Writes Puppet code
VRA Admin
● Designs offerings that Consumers see in their catalog
● Manages governance rules in vRA
Consumer
● Wants to get what they need quickly
● Wants a short and simple list of choices
● Doesn’t know or care about Puppet or vRA

16. ● Fully automated provisioning workflow
● Get production-ready infrastructure quickly
● Everyone gets a win
Self-Service Workflow and Integration with vRA/vRO
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18. Change with confidence
Q3 2016
• Tools to run Puppet actions from
the desktop workstation
• Select infrastructure with the
Puppet Query Language
• Direct change API
Later
• Drive direct change with expanded
orchestration capabilities
Drive change on selections of infrastructure and applications

19. Change with confidence
• Run phased deployments on-demand
• Directly initiate enforcement of changes
• Review the results of each change in real-time
• Determine how many servers to change at a
time and how to respond to any failures
Directly enforce changes to infrastructure & apps with ease

20. Future Infrastructure
ABOVE
BELOW

21. Bridge to the future - Below the Line
● Container runtime deploy and configure
○ Docker module
○ Container host management
● Deploying orchestrator and scheduler platforms
○ Docker Swarm, UCP and Registry
○ Kubernetes
○ Mesos, Chronos and Marathon
● Driving your container platform with Puppet
○ Kubernetes

22. Bridge to the future - Above the Line
● Building container images
○ Dockerfiles: the revenge of BASH
○ Leverage existing codebase as you migrate
○ Better composability when scaling up your usage
● Container runtime inventory/bill of materials
○ What about day minute 2?
○ Container inventory module
○ Driving the container community towards standards

24. Standard releases with periodic long-term support
Release schedule – what to expect
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25. Questions?