Tuesday, April 23, 2013

Puppet and Cloud Automation at OpenStack Summit 2013

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Tuesday, April 23, 2013 3:10 PMPuppet and Cloud Automation at OpenStack Summit 2013Puppet LabsKent Bye

The OpenStack Summit has quickly become one of the biggest open source events worldwide. More than  2,400 attended this year's event, held last week in Portland.

You could feel a lot of energy and excitement around this cloud infrastructure ecosystem during the conference – and there was also a lot of buzz around how Puppet helps automate public, private and hybrid clouds.

If you're not familiar with OpenStack, this video will be a good introduction to why it's called the "de facto standard cloud infrastructure platform."  A community – and lots of innovation – have formed up around OpenStack, which is a growing, common set of APIs that connect a diverse ecosystem of different hardware vendors.

Puppet Labs was on the scene with our video camera in hand, interviewing OpenStack community members about the importance of cloud automation, configuration management, and how people are using Puppet in their OpenStack deployments.

Dan Bode of Puppet Labs talks about leading the writing of the OpenStack Puppet integration modules with other community members, including Cisco, Red Hat, Rackspace, Morphlabs and eNovance. He offers a brief overview of these modules and how they're being used.

Boris Renski, a board member at OpenStack Foundation, talks about how Mirantis is using Puppet within their FUEL library of configuration and deployment tools that was just released at the summit. Renski points out that though cost savings are a primary driver for converting to an OpenStack infrastructure, it's far from the only reason. Another huge driver: the ability to do continuous integration and continuous delivery on a consistent infrastructure platform so web and SaaS applications can more quickly deliver new features.

Here are a few highlights from other OpenStack Summit interviews:

If you're just getting started with OpenStack, be sure to check out ourOpenStack solutions page for more information on getting up and running with Puppet.



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