2025-02-05, 09:00–17:00, Puppet 1 (B.1.015)
Puppets community day is a chance for Puppet staff, community contributors and users to get together and talk about all things Puppet, Bolt and the various open source development tools used to develop and maintain code.
Bring your challenges, ideas and projects so we can work together across the day. We can look at things like:
Modernizing Puppet code and take full advantage of Upgrading to Puppet 8
Working out how we create a better developer toolset and release process for Puppet community.
Discuss what we would like to see in Puppet 9 and other open source Puppet tools like Bolt
Meeting the Vox Pupuli community group and finding out how you can get involved and contribute.
Schedule
Main room (shared)
Morning
Community day welcome
Puppet 8 upgrade workshop
Road to 9.x
- Shared testing toolset improvements
- Openvox test pipeline and gem publication
- Review list of features for Puppet 9
- Papercuts
Community engagement
- Vox Pupuli onboarding
- Vox elections
- PR / Social / etc
Lightning talks (2)
Perforce community approach recap and Q&A
Afternoon
Steering Committee
Security Team
Lightning talks (4) / OpenVox Breakout
Open project work time / OpenVox Breakout
David is an author and experienced DevOps professional who is the Community and Developer Relations lead for Puppet.
He previously worked on the product management of Puppet’s development ecosystem and integrations while working with Puppet’s largest and most complex customers to deliver automation at scale and support their DevOps working practices.
He spent eight years at NatWest as a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer. David has a passion for delivering change into traditional working environments, breaking down team silos, and integrating DevOps working practices with heavily regulated and audited environments.
Outside of work, David is an accomplished hillwalker (Munroist number: 3085) having climbed all 282 of the Scottish Munros. He also enjoys sci-fi and fantasy books and regularly visits Scotland's tractor parks with his wife and two sons.