CfgMgmtCamp 2025 Ghent

Scaling Puppet beyond scalability - or how to manage 100k+ nodes
2025-02-03, 14:50–15:40, Puppet 2 (B.1.011)

How to setup a Puppet Environment which manages more than 100k nodes?
What kind of requirements or limitations do we have to take care about?
How to support all internal tenants and projects?
How to roll out global changes?

This talk will provide insights in high volume Puppet setup and why we need a fully automated base infrastructure and how we can achieve this


Large companies usually have several datacenters with many servers (physical or VM).
Besides this it is well known that an Enterprise organisation is a collection of small to medium size kingdoms and every emperor wants to be right in their decisions in any cases.

How to ensure compliance and security in such an environment?
How to ensure that global changes are adopted fast.
Who is responsible for which part and how can we put all the parts together.

Martin has been supporting customers for more than 10 years in planning, implementation, setup, development and operation of IT automation with a focus on Puppet and GIT as a consultant. As a trainer Martin likes to share his knowledge about Puppet, Bolt and Git and GitLab. His work environment consists of diverse clients in the telecommunications, health care, government and automotive sectors.

Prior to self-employment, Martin worked in the start-up, finance and online services environment. As an active member of the Puppet open source community, Martin helps with user questions and Puppet code development.

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