What’s New in Puppet Enterprise 2016.5

Welcome & Introductions

Mike SmithTechnical Solutions EngineeringPuppet

Michael OlsonProduct MarketingPuppet

High availability for Puppet

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Eliminate single points of failure & ensure Puppet continues to run

Simple HA, Agent-Side Failover

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This happens at the Agent application level (enterprise only replica creation and promotion)

What’s a replica?

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What happens during failovers in Puppet Enterprise 2016.5?

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You CAN

• Scheduled Puppet runs

• Catalog compilation

• Viewing classification data via node classifier API

• Reporting and queries based on PuppetDB data

You CANNOT

• Deploy new Puppet code

• Edit node classifier data (change classification)

• Use the console

• Certificate functionality (approving or revoking certificates)

• Use most CLI tools

• Application Orchestration

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Thank You!Download or upgrade Puppet Enterprise: puppet.com/download-puppet-enterprise

Read the upgrade guide:docs.puppet.com/upgrade