Please join us on February 17th, 2010 for a special guest, Luke Kaines, the founder of the Puppet Project.

This talk will have a general focus on the future of Puppet, and will particularly delve into how Puppet's model of the world will be used to drive new tools and capabilities. While Puppet is obviously about configuring your infrastructure, the fact that it uses declarative models rather than merely relying on chunks of opaque code is critical to both how we got here and where we go in the future.

This year will be the year of data for Puppet. For example, its most recent major release provided the means to address a host's compiled configuration as a separate, manageable entity, meaning it can be stored, controlled, and validated at will. The next full release will have granular event reporting, with correspondingly greater ability to correlate configurations to the resulting changes.

Each successive release thereafter will further expose the data that lies at the heart of a Puppet infrastructure. This talk will discuss some of the kinds of data we'll be bringing to the forefront of your Puppet infrastructure, along with how you can take advantage of it and how it will change your view of the world.

More Information:

• Puppet
• Reductive Labs
• Puppet Wiki
• Puppet Users Discussion
• Puppet Developers Discussion
• Puppet NYC User Group

About Luke Kanies:
Luke is the founder and CEO of Reductive Labs and the founder of the Puppet project. Previously, he was a consultant, open source contributor, and article author. He has focused on tool development since 2001, developing and publishing multiple simple sysadmin tools and contributing to established products like Cfengine. He has presented on Puppet and other tools around the world, including at OSCON, LISA, Linux.Conf.au, and FOSS.in.

Meeting Location:
Please note that this meeting will be held at IBM, 590 Madison Ave, 12th floor, corner of 57th Street, and not at Google. This is the building with the IBM logo on the front of the building.

Meeting Location

Please note that this meeting will be held at IBM, located at the corner of 590 Madison Ave, and 57th Street, NY, NY. You MUST RSVP for this meeting.