Introduction to Puppet
Sean Millichamp will present an introduction to Puppet, an open source systems and infrastructure management tool. Puppet allows you to declare, audit, and enforce a desired system state over the entire lifecycle of the system. He will introduce Puppet and discuss the architecture and design concepts in the product, including the various components in the Puppet ecosystem, what they are, and how you might use them. He will also show some relatively simple examples of Puppet code and discuss his experience with Puppet in real-world use. There will be opportunity for Q&A and open discussion.
This is Sean’s 20th year working in Information Technology. He began deploying Linux and other open source software in production in 1996 and has been using it since. Sean currently works as an Enterprise Architect at Secure-24, LLC, a Southfield based managed hosting provider. In this role he is responsible for evaluating and recommending new products, technologies, and operational policies for the organization, with a focus on Linux. Sean is also an adjunct professor in the CIS department at Oakland Community College. Sean graduated from the University of Michigan with a Bachelors of Science in Computer Engineering in 2001. In his “spare time” Sean has contributed to a number of open source projects, including Puppet. In 2012 Red Hat named Sean their Worldwide Certified Professional of the Year. Find Sean online at http://www.linkedin.com/in/seanmillichamp
And we’ll also have our normal MUG meeting features: Jobs Looking For People, People Looking for Jobs, news and events, and much much more. Hope to see you there!