Promoting Automation of Build Work for Large-Scale Systems
summary
A case study comparing manual vs automated builds for a physical web stack (load balancer, 2 web, 2 app, 1 DB) found automated provisioning cut build time from ~60 to ~20 hours. The solution combines Puppet with PXE/kickstart to deploy OS plus configuration, provides manifest templates and a ‘no-trace Puppet’ mode that leaves no persistent packages, and includes automated verification (confirmation reports and file-snapshot diffs for rollback) plus training/support to speed adoption.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Introduction
- 2:13Large-scale build challenges
- 5:19Puppet automation
- 7:47Pre-deployment evaluation
- 10:16Project barriers
- 13:08Overcoming barriers
- 17:47Training and support
- 18:51Implementation results
- 20:34Future challenges
- 21:16Lessons learned
- 23:44Q&A
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