Author: Kris Buytaert

Pupetizing your infrastructure

This talk will bring you the story of automating a SipFoundry based voip (sipx) infrastructure with puppet, a popular configuration management framework. After a gentle introduction into using the world of Puppet, this talk will also tell you how we used both existing and fresh puppet modules to configure as much as possible, before running into the dreaded "manual intervention needed" problem.

This talk will bring you the story of automating a SipFoundry based voip (sipx) infrastructure with puppet, a popular configuration management framework. After a gentle introduction into using the world of Puppet, this talk will also tell you how we used both existing and fresh puppet modules to configure as much as possible, before running into the dreaded "manual intervention needed" problem. We'll tackle different Puppet tips and Tricks

After having automated the deployment of numerous servers and applications there's always that one app / device popping up which doesn't want to part of the group, always that one application that needs "some manual intervention". Different approaches on how this problem can be solved will be discussed.