what's new in puppet enterprise 2016.4
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Welcome & Introductions
Grace AndrewsTechnical Solutions EngineeringPuppet
Michael OlsonSr. Product Marketing ManagerPuppet
What’s new
Gain situational awareness with new change reporting
Drive software change confidently with orchestration improvements
Rapidly adopt containers in production
Lay your DevOps foundation with new integrations
Orchestrate deployments to targeted sets of infrastructure
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Segment infrastructure based on any facts stored in Puppet & target deployments to matching nodes
Orchestrate deployments to targeted sets of infrastructure
Get full & direct control to drive changes on-demand
View change status in real-time to pause or throttle deployment if needed
Built-in intelligence ensures that ordered deployments respect all dependencies across your apps & infrastructure
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Run phased deployments & coordinate roll outs of change
Quickly identify whether changes are intentional or the result of unexpected configuration drift
Know exactly when unexpected changes occur to troubleshoot quickly & reduce MTTR
Identify security issues & alert teams faster
Visualize intentional vs. corrective changesGain visibility into the cause of changes across your infrastructure
Visualize intentional vs. corrective changesDrill into individual resources to identify what changed and why
Build Docker container images with Puppet
Automate container build process using familiar, predictable approach
Easily move existing services to Docker containers without reinventing wheel
Enable consistent & reliable deployment of services running in containers
Easily define & deploy services in containers
Integrate with VMware vRealize AutomationAutomate self-service provisioning & configuration of infrastructure across its lifecycle
Integrate with JenkinsBuild continuous integration pipelines in Jenkins & orchestrate deployments with Puppet
Automate the delivery and operation of Azure environments, with new support for:
• Resource Manager Templates
• Storage Accounts
• Private IP addresses, disks, extensions & custom data
Updates to Microsoft Azure moduleExtend automation to additional cloud resources in Azure
Client tools for Windows and Mac
Work faster from your Windows and Mac workstations
Deploy changes quickly without first needing to SSH into Puppet master
Manage infrastructure directly from your preferred workstations
Easily view status of proposed changes in simulation mode, including which changes would have:
• Had intentional vs. corrective changes
• Experienced failures
• Remained unchanged
Improve change success rate with detailed reporting on simulation mode Puppet runs
Visualize status of proposed changes
Classify & visualize node groups fasterDefine and visualize node group hierarchies to ensure proper class inheritance
• Upgrade Puppet Enterprise or download it for free on up to 10 nodes: puppet.com/download-puppet-enterprise
• Read the upgrade guide: docs.puppet.com/upgrade
• Read our blog post outlining our latest release: https://puppet.com/pe2016.4
Next steps