Puppet

Puppet Presentations

=============

James Turnbull presented a tutorial on Puppet at linux.conf.au 2010

in Wellington, New Zealand.

John Arundel (Bitfield on IRC) spoke on

[Agile Sysadmin and the Art of Infrastructure Automation](http://bitfieldconsulting.com/agile-sysadmin)

at the London Ruby Users Group in November, 2009.

Julian Simpson (The Build Doctor)

[also spoke](http://www.build-doctor.com/2009/11/14/agile-systems-admi/)

at the London Ruby Users Group in November, 2009.

R.I. Pienaar (Volcane on IRC) presented to the

[Cape Town Linux Users Group](http://nephilim.ml.org/~rip/puppet/presentation-southafrica-200907/)

in July, 2009.

James Turnbull presented on Puppet at

[linux.conf.au 2009](http://www.slideshare.net/jamtur01/using-puppet-real-world-configuration-management)

in Hobart, Australia.

Luke Kanies and James Turnbull presented on Puppet at

[OSCON 2008](http://www.kartar.net/puppet/OSCON%20v2.pdf) in

Portland.

Luke has presented on Puppet at both linux.conf.au 2007 and 2008 in

Australia. The most recent presentation was in Melbourne, Australia

at

[linux.conf.au 2008](http://mirror.linux.org.au/pub/linux.conf.au/2008/Fri/mel8-166.ogg).

His presentation at

[linux.conf.au 2007](http://mirror.linux.org.au/pub/linux.conf.au/2007/video/friday/84.ogg)

in Sydney, Australia is also available.

Luke also gave two talks at [BayLISA](http://www.baylisa.org) about

Puppet. The

[first](http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5698674539532408353)

is a twenty minute introduction from 2005 (Puppet's first year)

about the Why and What of puppet. The

[second](http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8202036065161263530)

and

[third](http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7740462681265962824)

are part one and two of a two hour presentation half a year later,

again at BayLISA.

Martha Greenberg wrote a set of slides on

[Puppet Basic Concepts](http://www.mit.edu/people/marthag/talks/puppet/)

to explain Puppet to her co-workers. Feel free to use them to

explain it to yours.

Frank Sweetser gave a introductory presentation on Puppet to the

[Worcester Linux Users Group](http://www.wlug.org). You can

download the slides in either

[PDF Format](http://www.wlug.org/files/puppet-presentation.pdf) or

[ODP Format](http://www.wlug.org/files/puppet-presentation.odp).

Mike Renfro gave

[an introduction to both infrastructure management and Puppet](http://blogs.cae.tntech.edu/mwr/2008/04/22/giving-a-presentation-at-the-tennessee-higher-education-it-symposium/)

to the Tennessee Higher Education IT Symposium. You can download

either

[Mike's slides](http://blogs.cae.tntech.edu/mwr/files/2008/04/unix_infrastructure_management_from_scratch_slides.pdf)

or

[Mike's handouts](http://blogs.cae.tntech.edu/mwr/files/2008/04/unix_infrastructure_management_from_scratch_handouts.pdf)

in PDF format.

Lindsay Holmwood talked about an Australia-wide Puppet deployment

he did at the Sysadmin Miniconf at linux.conf.au 2008. You can

download

[Lindsay's slides](http://holmwood.id.au/~lindsay/wp-content/presentations/puppetising-client.pdf)

and watch a

[video of the talk](http://mirror.linux.org.au/pub/linux.conf.au/2008/Tue/mel8-721.ogg).

[Garrett Honeycutt](http://garretthoneycutt.com/) spoke to

[SASAG](http://www.sasag.org/) about his experiences with Puppet at

Speakeasy on 2009-05-14. Slides [here](http://talks.garretthoneycutt.com/20090514-Introducing_Puppet_to_SASAG.pdf)

Jeff McCune started things off and Nigel Kersten has joined in on

sessions regarding the benefits of Puppet for Mac OS X Management

at Macworld for the past several years. 2008's slides are hosted at

[Google Code](http://code.google.com/p/puppet-mw08/downloads/list),

and Mr. McCune hosts the video from that year at

[North Star Labs](http://northstarlabs.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/).

2009's session was titled

[IT841 Mac OS X Laptop Deployments with Puppet](http://docs.google.com/present/view?id=dg382zb7_1cd4bwhg9).

Ohad Levy spoke at OSSPAC 08 about his Puppet setup at Infineon.

Slides

[here](http://www.slideshare.net/ohadlevy/a-presentation-about-puppet-that-ive-made-at-the-osspac-conference)

Mark Foster presented

[Tame your Infrastructure with Puppet](http://www.slideshare.net/delimiter/manage-your-infrastructure-with-puppet)

at [LinuxFest Northwest](http://www.linuxfestnorthwest.org/) in

April 2009.

Mark Stanislav presented [Being a Puppet Master: Automating Amazon EC2 with Puppet & Friends](http://www.uncompiled.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/stanislav_puppet_2010.pdf) at the [Greater Detroit Cloud Computing User Group](http://groups.google.com/group/the-greater-detroit-cloud-computing-user-group) in September 2010 and the [Washtenaw Linux Users Group](http://www.lugwash.org/) in December 2010.

Richard Crowley presented [Securing and Extending Puppet](http://rcrowley.org/talks/strange-loop-2010/) at Strange Loop (and Puppet Camp), various [Ruby](http://rcrowley.org/talks/carbon-five-2010-11-11/)- and [Python](http://rcrowley.org/talks/django-2010-11-17/)-themed introductions, and [Extending Puppet](http://rcrowley.org/talks/sv-puppet-2011-01-11/) at the Silicon Valley Puppet Meetup.

Alessandro Franceschi presented [Puppet @ Seat](http://www.slideshare.net/Alvagante/puppet-seat-7205445#) in a Seat Internet Factory Tech Talk in March 2011, exposing how Puppet is used to automate the infrastructure and the deployment processes in the company.

Richard crowley presented [Dependency Management with Puppet](http://rcrowley.org/talks/pycon-2011/) at PyCon in longer form than the usual lightning talk.