August Meeting. Demo of The Foreman. Discuss personal coding workflow.

Hello Triangle Puppet people. We are happy to invite you to the August meetup at Arista Networks in Cary.

Please RSVP so that we can target the right amount of pizza and beer.

Meeting topics:

• Our personal coding workflow (shell, git, code validation and style checking)
• Red Hatters Eric Helms and Justin Sherrill will be giving a demo of The Foreman (https://theforeman.org/) which is now 7 years old, and recently released version 1.12 which has support for puppet 4.x.

The Foreman allows you to: Provision from anywhere
Bare metal, Amazon EC2, Google Compute Engine, OpenStack, Libvirt, oVirt, VMware, and many other providers allow you to manage a hybrid cloud through Foreman.

Manage Configuration
An external node classifier, hiera-like parameters, and reports monitoring for Puppet, Salt and Chef are included. Completely ready to tweak host groups in your data center.

Monitor hosts
Foreman reports will tell you exactly what happened in your nodes, and alert you when things go awry. See in your dashboard which hosts are healthy, and which ones are outdated.

Meetup Poll: What puppet topics would you like to be discussed at RPUG meetups? (https://www.meetup.com/Raleigh-Puppet-User-Group/polls/1227064/)

We are interested in knowing if you prefer certain topics to discuss at future meetings, so please check out the poll linked above. We are also looking for attendees that might have things to share. Do you have a particular workflow that works for you and might for others? Have you started writing your own puppet modules and have some tips? How do you classify your nodes? If so, then please reply to this meetup event.

This Puppet User group adheres to the following Code of Conduct. (https://docs.puppet.com/community/community_guidelines.html)