Use of Puppet in cloud resource provisioning/management

[Josh Pederson]

For folks who utilize cloud environments (AWS, OpenStack, Azure, etc) in your day-to-day continuous delivery (CD) and/or application deploys I'd really appreciate any description of how you use Puppet in your process.

Some of the questions I'm curious about:

• How do you provision new cloud resources? 
  
• On cloud mgmt console directly, API calls from a script, Puppet Enterprise, some other automation
• Do you use Puppet to configure resources after provisioning?
  
• Or are your AMIs prebaked with the middleware your envt needs? (e.g., LAMP stack)
• Do you use Puppet to manage resources once they've been provisioned
• Retire, scale out, etc

Thanks everybody -- your input is much appreciated.

[Felix Frank]

On 03/27/2015 05:26 PM, Josh Pederson wrote:
> For folks who utilize cloud environments (AWS, OpenStack, Azure, etc) in
> your day-to-day continuous delivery (CD) and/or application deploys I'd
> really appreciate any description of how you use Puppet in your process.

Hi,

I think you definitely want to take this to the broader audience at
puppet-users.

Best,
Felix

[Daniel Dreier]

These are great questions. I'm currently working on a blog post for the company blog to describe one approach we're taking to run the puppetlabs.com web site on AWS. I'll make sure to answer them in the post. Feel free to ping me directly if there are other specific questions and I'll do my best to answer those as well. I think Felix is correct that this would be better discussed on puppet-users, though - you're more likely to reach the sysadmins actually running cloud infrastructure.

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