Introducing Puppet Enterprise’s Event Inspector

Introducing Puppet Enterprise’s event inspectorJoe WagnerSenior User Experience Designer | Puppet Labs @jcwag

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What is event inspector?


event - Puppet’s attempt to modify an individual property of a given resource.

What is event inspector?


Types of events

Failure - Puppet was unsuccessful enforcing a configuration.

Change - Puppet was successful enforcing a configuration and this resulted in a change to a resource’s property.

Skip - Puppet was unable to enforce a configuration due to failed enforcement elsewhere.

Noop - Puppet simulated enforcing a configuration.


July 1, 2012


July 1, 2012(~ 1 year ago)


PE: Home screen reporting


PE: Node run reports


PE: Inventory search


PE: External node classifier


PE: Live Management


Understanding your needs


Our fabulous researchers

JennyFei


Test Pilot Program

Last year: 130 test pilotsThis year: 400 and counting


You are all snowflakes.


GUI / CLI Showdown

• control

• speed

• scripting

• display of information

• manipulation of information

CLI wins: GUI wins:


PE reporting


Early prototype testing


Focus on most recent events

“To me, this is one of the important aspects to quickly see visually what has happened on the system.”

-- test pilot

“It would change drastically the way colleagues are applying manifests and would give better feedback loop for node state and execution time.”

-- test pilot


Evolution of the prototype


Beyond nodes

"You might expect an application to be made of certain components, like java, and a development container. Ideally you’d have a grouping with some meaning that would be functional."

-- test pilot

“When we’re getting into a couple hundred nodes, I’m not looking at individual nodes changed, I’m looking at changes to Apache.”

-- test pilot


Node View


Class View


Resource View


Three views into your infrastructure

class = what

node = where

resource = how


August 23, 2013


August 23, 2013(Today)


Summary Pane


Node details


Event detail pane


What’s next.


Future improvements:robust filtering


Future improvements:comparing node events


Future improvements:running puppet


Future improvements:main screen redesign


Your questions.

Thank YouJoe WagnerSenior User Experience Designer | Puppet Labs @jcwag

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