Deathwing00's Space WebLog of Ioannis Aslanidis (aka Deathwing Zero Zero)

Puppetcamp Europe 2010

According to this information, Reductive Labs, the team behind puppet, has announced that Puppetcamp Europe 2010 will happen on 27 and 28 May 2010 in Ghent, Belgium. For those who do not know, Puppet is an open source application for system control automation.

The concept on how it works is pretty simple. There is a puppetmaster server where the configuration details reside for machines running puppet clients. These configuration details, do not consist in just package or file installation, it also controls that a certain service is running and many other things. It is very flexible and extensible and allows you to automate many details of your server by using templates and classes. Once you have a puppet class ready, the deployment is really quick, apart from automated.

It has really made my life much easier than before, when I had to maintain and run my own scripts for installing machines.