Tool migration - from Puppet to mgmt and back

Felix Frank @felix_rex ffrank

B.3.019 - Monday 4th February 2019 - 15:00 → 15:55

Switching out the back bone of your automation tool chain is usually painful.
It likely involves rewriting all your infrastructure code, and will either require a scary over-night cut-off, or a period in which two tools run concurrently, with operators carefully shifting functionality one step at a time.

With mgmt’s support for Puppet code, migrating becomes a lot more natural.
This session does a deep dive and shows how mgmt will allow you to use and maintain a mixed code base of both Puppet’s and mgmt’s DSLs.

Speaker Info

Felix Frank

Felix has been running distributed systems since 2004 and likes using and tinkering with various automation tools.
Special interests have included Puppet, Ansible, and mgmt.

He very occasionally updates a blog, and otherwise tries to get enough exercise to wind down from his day job running Hadoop clusters for The unbelievable Machine Company.