James Turnbull

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1 State of the Nation

2 James Turnbull

3 Where we were Puppet user mailing list membership was 3000 With about 600 messages a month The #puppet IRC channel averaged 400 people Puppet on GitHub had 200 forks and 400 watchers We had 50 modules on the Forge

4 Where we are Puppet users mailing list membership is almost 5000 With 1200 messages a month The #puppet IRC channel averages 800 people Puppet on GitHub has 350 forks and 950 watchers We have over 500 modules on the Forge

5 So what s next?

6 BE transparent Tell you what is happening Make decisions in public Work together on roadmap Work together on design Open by default

7 What we have done recently

8 data/model separation Lookup of class parameters separate from the manifest You can assume it is there! No manifest changes needed Uses Hiera as the back-end

9 RUBY is finally a first class citizen. This is part of Fully supported. All bugs fixed. (Probably)

10 Puppet module tool Project Geordi La Forge PMT ships with Making it more awesome! Buffing up publishing Enhance the forge

11 variable scope fixed No more dynamic scope Killed deprecation warnings! Local, then inherited......then node, then global.

12 give back memory Daemon mode used to grow and grow... Now, we return memory to the OS Part of our performance improvement strategy

13 ENC vs environments You could set the client environment from the ENC The client would ignore you (sometimes) Now it doesn t Bug fix, not feature Still great!

14 plugin sync This worked unevenly Failures on first run Oddities about what can by synced and used successfully Now, uniform and standard

15 DSL Polish Add unless to the language Allow keywords as resource parameters and properties Fixed some parser bugs (like - in variable names) More of this coming...

16 hidden changes Lots of bugs fixed Code cleanup Performance improvements Correctness fixes None of them visible

17 finally shipping! Puppet Facter Hiera 1.0.0

18 committing to Semver Semantic Versioning FTW We are moving all our projects over SemVer rc.1 compliant

19 it s version-ception!

20 major version Breaking Changes

21 Minor version Compatible new features

22 Patch version Bug fix with no other behavioural or functional changes

23 which means? You have version numbers that match the way we write and ship code You can be confident about the scope of changes in any release

24 shipping code faster

25 OS packages for release candidates

26 month development releases Waldorf is the next major release after Telly (3.0.0) We will ship a tested version every month as a preview This way you don t have changes a year old before they ship to the community Plus OS packages!

27 not done yet...

28 old mistakes still haunt us Parameterized classes don t work everywhere undef vs nil classes with - in the name

29 slow moving ecosystem Dashboard is being deprecated Puppet Labs modules need more attention...but we are starting to invest in them.

30 broken (or delayed) promises import isn t deprecated The static compiler isn t the default Facter doesn t have typed or structured facts

31 the future is not evenly distributed

32 the ecosystem Shipping structured and typed facts without the ecosystem is a no-go On release, new features should work everywhere

33 the next challenge Waldorf, kicking ass and taking names

34 experiment one We are going to fix some high-voted tickets

35 votes shape the roadmap We said votes matter before It wasn t really true I don t expect you to believe us this time......so we are gonna fix tickets, then ask you to believe us

36 votes shape the roadmap We want community input into the roadmap This seems a solid choice Success is that votes get used by the community...and that we use them to shape the roadmap!

37 schedule transparency

38 redmine Accepted tickets This is the scrum unsorted product backlog

39 redmine 3.X target version This is we might fix it before 4.0.0

40 gonna fix that up Target open tickets at the next numeric version Means trying to fix for that release Still shipping time-based product, so things will miss

41 other experiments You bring em, We try em

42 tech for waldorf This is all speculative, no promises.

43 static compiler Missed Telly, but only just Content reference, not URI Single file catalog? Easier push model?

44 structured facts Really, structured and typed JSON is the template for supported types and structures Full ecosystem support Third party facts only, initially

45 better graph processing Improve graph handling in the Puppet Agent Fix the anchor pattern Improves performance and logic Allows future improvements to the catalog and graph

46 better environments Different versions of a type in different environments Turns out that is pretty hard (thanks, Ruby) We will make it easy Fix performance cost too

47 cleaner, documented code Easier to use Puppet as a library or extend it Better API definitions Richer integrations

48 thank you all