Edge Show 110 - Puppet on Azure

Learn how to get started running a Puppet infrastructure on top of Microsoft Azure IaaS and understand the fundamentals of how Puppet works in this demo-heavy interview with Ross Gardler, Senior Technical Evangelist in Microsoft Open Tech.

More specifically at [04:55], we cover:

• What is Puppet?
• [06:13] Demo: Provisioning a Puppet master from the Azure gallery VM image
• [08:44] Demo: Provisioning a VM with the Puppet agent installed
• [10:58] Can the agent communicate over the public IP of the cloud service or on an internal Azure vNet as well?
• [11:55] Demo: Endpoints which need to be configured to communicate with the Puppet Master
• [12:40] Demo: Logging into the Puppet Master console
• [13:48] Demo: Configuring a Puppet manifest
• [17:30] Demo: manually refreshing the Puppet agent after logging into the VM
• [18:28] Where can people find a number of community created manifests?
• [20:48] How does the agent know which manifests to apply?
• [22:08] What does the Puppet Forge module for Azure do and when would you typically use it?

News:

• MVA LIVE Q&A event with Mark Russinovich July 14
• MVA LIVE jumpstart event on Windows Azure Pack July 16-17
• MVA LIVE jumpstart event on Migrating Windows Server 2003 to 2012 R2 to Microsoft Azure July 24
• MS Open Tech: team recap of past 2 years + recent all-up announcements
• MS Open Tech: Gradle support for Team Foundation Server (TFS)
• MS Open Tech: Grunt support for TFS
• MS Open Tech: Docker support on Microsoft Azure

Updates to the Puppet Forge Module for Microsoft Azure

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