Career journey leading up to Director of Customer Support @ Puppet Labs

Please Join us at our next meetup where Claire Hernandez will share her career journey leading up to this role at Puppet (through a series of practical Q&As). We will then do in-depth research on what Puppet is all about... their clients, competition, products, value proposition etc.

http://www.ondreampath.com/meetup

Please note that you MUST register to attend this free event!

We will be accepting talk proposals until December 2, so if you want to talk, please submit! We will be announcing the agenda in mid-December.

The first meeting of what will be a monthly PDX Puppet User Group.

Join the PDX Puppet Google Group to get notifications of upcoming meetings.

Details:

• When: May 6 from 6:30 - 8:30
• Where: Puppet Labs 926 NW 13th Ave #210, Portland, OR
• Who: Puppet users and people interested in learning more about Puppet.

Agenda:

• 6:30 - 7:00: Eat pizza
• 7:00 - 8:00: Puppet Overview / Q&A with Luke Kanies (Founder of Puppet)
• 8:00 - 8:30: Operating System Support in Puppet with Mike Stahnke

If you have an idea for what you would like to see on a future agenda or if you want to volunteer to present a talk, please post those ideas in the PDX Puppet Google Group

The monthly PDX Puppet User Group.

Join the PDX Puppet Google Group to get notifications of upcoming meetings.

Who should attend? Puppet users and people interested in learning more about Puppet.

We'll also be holding a raffle at 8:30pm where you can enter to win a free ticket to PuppetConf on August 22-23!

Agenda:

• 6:30 - 7:00: Eat pizza and talk to other Puppet users
• 7:00 - 7:45: Intro to PuppetDB - Nick Lewis
• 7:45 - 8:30: Exported Resources - Spencer and William
• 8:30: Decide if we should meet on July 1 (scheduled), push to July 8 or cancel July
• 8:30: Raffle for a free PuppetConf ticket!

If you have an idea for what you would like to see or if you want to volunteer to present a talk, please post those ideas in the PDX Puppet Google Group

The monthly PDX Puppet User Group.

Join the PDX Puppet Google Group to get notifications of upcoming meetings.

Who should attend? Puppet users and people interested in learning more about Puppet.

We'll also be holding a raffle at 8:30pm where you can enter to win a free ticket to PuppetConf on August 22-23!

Agenda:

• 6:30 - 7:00: Eat pizza and talk to other Puppet users
• 7:00 - 7:45: Intro to Systems Orchestration with MCollective - Devon Peters
• 7:45 - 8:30: Open discussion and general Q&A
• 8:30: Raffle for a free PuppetConf ticket!

If you have an idea for what you would like to see or if you want to volunteer to present a talk, please post those ideas in the PDX Puppet Google Group

The monthly PDX Puppet User Group.

Join the PDX Puppet Google Group to get notifications of upcoming meetings.

Who should attend? Puppet users and people interested in learning more about Puppet.

Agenda:

• 6:30 - 7:00: Eat pizza and talk to other Puppet users
• 7:00 - 7:45: Intro to the Puppet Forge - Ryan Coleman
• 7:45 - 8:30: Panel: Module Best Practices - Ryan Coleman

If you have an idea for what you would like to see or if you want to volunteer to present a talk, please post those ideas in the PDX Puppet Google Group

The monthly PDX Puppet User Group.

Important note: This group meets on the 1st Monday of every month. Because of the Labor Day holiday, we have decided to move the September meeting to the 2nd Monday. We will return to our regular 1st Monday schedule in October.

Join the PDX Puppet Google Group to get notifications of upcoming meetings.

Who should attend? Puppet users and people interested in learning more about Puppet.

Agenda for September 9

• 6:30 - 7:00: Eat pizza and talk to other Puppet users
• 7:00 - 7:45: Ben Kero: Vee: A holistic approach to Puppet CI
• 7:45 - 8:30: Joe Wagner: Introducing Puppet Enterprise’s Event Inspector

If you have an idea for what you would like to see or if you want to volunteer to present a talk, please post those ideas in the PDX Puppet Google Group

Interested in contributing to Puppet? Want to come hang out with fun people and do geeky things all day? Come to our Triage-A-Thon on Wednesday, October 2nd! You can participate virtually from anywhere in the world, or join us in person in our office in Portland, OR.

If you plan to attend, please register to help us plan for food and space!

Our goal is to review all the open tickets in the Puppet and Module projects to: - Update and confirm that issues are still relevant - Ensure tickets are in the right status and all the right information is present to fix the problem - Close any invalid or no longer relevant tickets

We’ll assign blocks of tickets to every participant, explain what you need to do, and provide people on the ground to answer questions and help you make decisions. If you want a few more details about how you can help, you should read about the process we use to triage bugs.

Participate online worldwide: Virtually we’ll provide an IRC channel (#puppethack), IM, and rewards for people who triage tickets and get involved. The Triage-a-Thon will be happening online from 1am-5pm PDT so that our friends and employees outside the US can also participate, so drop in any time that works for you.

In Portland: Join us in person at our office in the Pearl! We'll provide breakfast, coffee, a delicious lunch, snacks and space in our office. Please bring a laptop computer with you. The in-office portion of the Triage-a-Thon starts at 9am, and runs all day, so you're welcome to drop in at any point.

The first 200 people who help for at least 2 hours will be sent a special edition Puppet Triage-a-Thon 2013 t-shirt, and we'll have additional prizes for top participants!

The monthly PDX Puppet User Group, which meets on the 1st Monday of every month.

Join the PDX Puppet Google Group to get notifications of upcoming meetings.

Who should attend? Puppet users and people interested in learning more about Puppet.

Agenda for October 7

• 6:30 - 7:00: Eat pizza / salads and talk to other Puppet users
• 7:00 - 7:45: Getting started with Puppet: Mike Stahnke
• 7:45 - 8:15: New free online learning for Puppet: Brad Hamilton
• 8:15 - 8:30: Brainstorm topics for upcoming meetings

If you have an idea for what you would like to see or if you want to volunteer to present a talk, please post those ideas in the PDX Puppet Google Group

The monthly PDX Puppet User Group, which meets on the 1st Monday of every month.

Join the PDX Puppet Google Group to get notifications of upcoming meetings.

Who should attend? Puppet users and people interested in learning more about Puppet.

Agenda for December 2

• 6:30 - 7:00: Eat pizza / salads and talk to other Puppet users
• 7:00 - 7:30: Monitoring and Puppet Setup at Puppet Labs: Derrick Dymock
• 7:30 - 8:00: Puppet patterns: Spencer Krum
• 8:00 - 8:30: Geppetto: Ryan Coleman

If you have an idea for what you would like to see or if you want to volunteer to present a talk, please post those ideas in the PDX Puppet Google Group

The monthly PDX Puppet User Group, which meets on the 1st Monday of every month.

Join the PDX Puppet Google Group to get notifications of upcoming meetings.

Who should attend? Puppet users and people interested in learning more about Puppet.

Agenda for January 6

• 6:30 - 7:00: Eat pizza / salads and talk to other Puppet users
• 7:00 - 7:45: Puppet and Windows - Josh Cooper
• 7:45 - 8:25: Puppet Enterprise and Puppet Open Source: Similarities and differences from a technical perspective - Eric Sorenson
• 8:25 - 8:30: Plan next agenda

If you have an idea for what you would like to see or if you want to volunteer to present a talk, please post those ideas in the PDX Puppet Google Group

The monthly PDX Puppet User Group, which meets on the 1st Monday of every month.

Join the PDX Puppet Google Group to get notifications of upcoming meetings.

Who should attend? Puppet users and people interested in learning more about Puppet.

Agenda for February 3

• 6:30 - 7:00: Eat pizza / salads and talk to other Puppet users
• 7:00 - 8:25: Show and tell. Bring your projects. Adrien Thebo (aka finch) will be available with demos of Oscar, r10k and more awesome stuff he's been working on.
• 8:25 - 8:30: Plan next agenda

If you have an idea for what you would like to see or if you want to volunteer to present a talk, please post those ideas in the PDX Puppet Google Group

The monthly PDX Puppet User Group, which meets on the 1st Monday of every month.

Join the PDX Puppet Google Group to get notifications of upcoming meetings.

Who should attend? Puppet users and people interested in learning more about Puppet.

Agenda for March 3

• 6:30 - 7:00: Eat pizza / salads and talk to other Puppet users
• 7:00 - 7:45: Issue Prevention: When turning it off and on again fails you - Jay Wallace
• 7:45 - 8:15: Demo: Use Envpuppet To Test with Multiple Puppet Versions - Charlie Sharpsteen
• 8:15 - 8:30: Open time for show & tell

If you have an idea for what you would like to see or if you want to volunteer to present a talk, please post those ideas in the [PDX Puppet Google Group]

The monthly PDX Puppet User Group, which meets on the 1st Monday of every month.

Join the PDX Puppet Google Group to get notifications of upcoming meetings.

Who should attend? Puppet users and people interested in learning more about Puppet.

Agenda for April 7

• 6:30 - 7:00: Eat pizza / salads and talk to other Puppet users
• 7:00 - 7:45: Beaker 101: acceptance testing and more - Alice Nodelman
• 7:45 - 8:25: Module testing with Beaker - Hunter Haugen
• 8:25 - 8:30: Brainstorm next agenda

If you have an idea for what you would like to see or if you want to volunteer to present a talk, please post those ideas in the PDX Puppet Google Group

The monthly PDX Puppet User Group, which meets on the 1st Monday of every month.

Join the PDX Puppet Google Group to get notifications of upcoming meetings.

Who should attend? Puppet users and anyone interested in learning more about Puppet. Beginners welcome.

Agenda for May 5

• 6:30 - 7:00: Eat pizza / salads and socialize
• 7:00 - 7:45: Talk on "Future Parser" - Joshua Parlow
• 7:45 - 8:15: "Trusted Facts and Policy-Based Autosigning" -Thomas Linkin
• 8:15 - 8:25: June Triage-a-Thon info and update
• 8:25 - 8:30: Brainstorm next agenda

If you have an idea for what you would like to hear a talk about, or if you want to volunteer to present a talk, please post those ideas in the PDX Puppet Google Group!

This user group is governed by the Puppet Labs event code of conduct.

More information:

Joshua Parlow, Software Engineer at Puppet Labs, will be talking about the future parser.

He'll answer:

• what is it?
• how do you turn it on?
• what new features does it have?
• how does it differ from the current parser?

Come with more questions! If you want to read up on the future parser ahead of time, you can do so here: http://docs.puppetlabs.com/puppet/latest/reference/experiments_future.html

The Portland Puppet User Group is for those who are using Puppet, want to learn more about Puppet, or are interested in configuration management, IT, or DevOps. We meet at Puppet Labs on the first Monday of each month. To learn more about Puppet, you can visit PuppetLabs.com.

Watch the live stream!

What this is: The monthly PDX Puppet User Group, which meets on the 1st Monday of every month, for Puppet users and people interested in learning more about Puppet.

This month: We're hosting a special Puppet for Beginners session! On June 2nd, invite yourself, and friends & co-workers who've been asking "What IS that Puppet thing, anyway?" to come to our office for a special mixer and three introductory talks on Puppet.

Agenda for June 2:

• 4:00 - 6:30pm: Drinks and social [dinner and drinks provided]
• 6:30 - 7:15pm: "Beginning Puppet" - Michael Stahnke
• 7:15 - 8:00pm: "Writing and Publishing Puppet Modules" - Colleen Murphy
• 8:00 - 8:30pm: "An Introduction to Contributing" - Eric Sorenson

For more details on the Triage-a-Thon, an event for intermediate-advanced Puppet users happening earlier in the day, see: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/puppet-triage-a-thon-june-2014-tickets-11147351027

Join the PDX Puppet Google Group to get notifications of upcoming meetings.

If you have an idea for what you would like to see or if you want to volunteer to present a talk, please post those ideas in the PDX Puppet Google Group.

The monthly PDX Puppet User Group, which meets on the 1st Monday of every month.

Join the PDX Puppet Google Group to get notifications of upcoming meetings.

Who should attend? Puppet users and people interested in learning more about Puppet.

Agenda for July 7

Next Monday is our next PDX Puppet User Group meeting! Melissa Stone, Release Engineer at Puppet Labs, will be talking about using Puppet to Package Software, and Kylo Ginsberg will be giving you a glipse of the future as he discusses Puppet 4!

• 6:30 - 7:00: Eat pizza / salads and talk to other Puppet users
• 7:00 - 7:45: "Using Puppet to Package Software" (Beginner/Intermediate) - Melissa Stone
• 7:45 - 8:10: "What's New in Puppet 4" - Kylo Ginsberg
• 8:10 - 8:15: Plan next agenda

We're still looking for a second talk, so get in touch with kara @ puppetlabs.com if you're interested in talking (even briefly!) about how you're using Puppet. Also, let us know if you'd like to be on the schedule next month! You don't need to be an expert to speak - we love to hear about what folks are doing with Puppet.

If you have an idea for what you would like to see presented, please post those ideas in the PDX Puppet Google Group

The monthly PDX Puppet User Group, which meets on the 1st Monday of every month.

Join the PDX Puppet Google Group to get notifications of upcoming meetings.

Who should attend? Puppet users and people interested in learning more about Puppet.

Agenda for August 4th

Charlie Sharpsteen, Open Source Support Engineer at Puppet Labs, will be talking about "Standardized Debugging Environments: Taking the Friction Out of Ticket Investigation".

In his talk, Charlie will cover the journey Puppet Labs has taken towards automating the setup of virtual sandboxes for exploration and ticket investigation.

• 6:30 - 7:00: Eat pizza / salads and talk to other Puppet users
• 7:00 - 7:45: "Standardized Debugging Environments: Taking the Friction Out of Ticket Investigation" - Charlie Sharpsteen
• 7:45 - 8:10: Talk TBA or Breakout Sessions
• 8:10 - 8:15: Plan next agenda

We're still looking for a second talk, so get in touch with kara @ puppetlabs.com if you're interested in talking (even briefly!) about how you're using Puppet. Also, let us know if you'd like to be on the schedule next month! You don't need to be an expert to speak - we love to hear about what folks are doing with Puppet.

If you have an idea for what you would like to see presented, please post those ideas in the PDX Puppet Google Group

The monthly PDX Puppet User Group, which meets on the 1st Monday of every month - except this month, since that's Labor Day! Instead, we're meeting Sept. 8th.

Join the PDX Puppet Google Group to get notifications of upcoming meetings.

Who should attend? Puppet users and people interested in learning more about Puppet.

Agenda for September 8th

• 6:00 - 6:30: Eat pizza / salads, talk to other Puppet users, take the IT Puppet personality quiz :)
• 6:30 - 7:00 "Continuously Testing Infrastructure" - Gareth Rushgrove, Puppet Labs
• 7:00 - 7:15 "The Life and Times of Puppet at Portland State University" - Elliot Schlegelmilch, PSU
• 7:15 - 7:30 Spencer Krum demos a new experimental tool, "Puppet Analytics"
• 7:30 - 8:00: Plan next agenda & chat

At this month's meeting, we'll have a fun addition from the folks on our User Experience team: Want to know more about your IT personality? Take our "Which Puppet are you" quiz debuting at this month's PUG.

We're still looking for a short third talk, so get in touch with kara @ puppetlabs.com if you're interested in talking (even briefly!) about how you're using Puppet. Also, let us know if you'd like to be on the schedule next month! You don't need to be an expert to speak - we love to hear about what folks are doing with Puppet.

If you have an idea for what you would like to see presented, please post those ideas in the PDX Puppet Google Group

Meat, veggie, gluten-free, and vegan pizza will be available. The office is wheelchair accessible, and has an elevator. There is bike parking inside the office, so bring your bikes in! Parking is available in the garage across the street.

The monthly PDX Puppet User Group, which meets on the 1st Monday of every month .

Join the PDX Puppet Google Group to get notifications of upcoming meetings.

Who should attend? Puppet users and people interested in learning more about Puppet.

This month at the Portland Puppet User Group, Spencer Krum, Cloud Engineer at HP, will be premiering a new talk on different kinds of modules for different uses, titled "The Module Spectrum". Eric Zounes, a technical operations engineer at Puppet Labs, will talk about "Deploying and Managing Elasticsearch with Puppet." Should be an excellent meeting!

Agenda for October 6th:

• 6:00 - 6:30: Eat pizza / salads and talk to other Puppet users

• 6:30 - 7:10: "Deploying and Managing Elasticsearch with Puppet" - Eric Zounes

• 7:10 - 7:55: "The Module Spectrum" - Spencer Krum

• 7:55 - 8:15: Chat and Plan next agenda

Get in touch with kara @ puppetlabs.com if you're interested in talking (even briefly!) about how you're using Puppet. Also, let us know if you'd like to be on the schedule next month! You don't need to be an expert to speak - we love to hear about what folks are doing with Puppet.

If you have an idea for what you would like to see presented, please post those ideas in the PDX Puppet Google Group

Meat, veggie, gluten-free, and vegan pizza will be available. The office is wheelchair accessible, and has an elevator. There is bike parking inside the office, so bring your bikes in! Parking is available in the garage across the street.

The monthly PDX Puppet User Group.

Important note: This group meets on the 1st Monday of every month. Because of Thanksgiving, we pushed this meeting out an extra week.

Join the PDX Puppet Google Group to get notifications of upcoming meetings.

Who should attend? Puppet users and people interested in learning more about Puppet.

Agenda for December 8

• 6:00 - 6:30: Eat pizza / salads, talk to other Puppet users
• 6:30 - 7:15 "The Module Spectrum" - Spencer Krum, HP
• 7:15 - 7:40 "Proof-of-concept on a lightweight approach to Puppet orchestration" - Daniel Dreier
• 7:40 - 8:00 Surprise talk or a discussion
• 8:00 - 8:15: Plan next agenda & chat

If you have an idea for what you would like to see or if you want to volunteer to present a talk, please post those ideas in the PDX Puppet Google Group

We meet on the 1st Monday of every month. Join us on February 2nd! Remember we meet at the new Puppet office in downtown Portland.

This month at the Portland Puppet User Group, Kylo Ginsberg, software engineer at Puppet Labs, will be talking about where our client side technology is going titled "Puppet Client: Puppet 4 and Beyond". Daryll DeCoster, front end engineer at Puppet Labs, will talk about prototyping at Puppet and Hailee Kenney, software engineer at Puppet Labs, will be demoing Puppet Strings, our new doc tool. Should be an excellent meeting!

Agenda for February 2nd:

• 6:00 - 6:30: Eat pizza / salads and talk to other Puppet users
• 6:30 - 7:15: Puppet Client: Puppet 4 and Beyond - Kylo Ginsberg
• 7:15 - 7:45: Prototyping at Puppet - Daryll DeCoster
• 7:45 - 8:00 Puppet Strings demo (the new doc tool) - Hailee Kenney
• 8:00 - 8:15: Plan next agenda

Get in touch with meg@ puppetlabs.com if you're interested in talking (even briefly!) about how you're using Puppet. Also, let us know if you'd like to be on the schedule next month! You don't need to be an expert to speak - we love to hear about what folks are doing with Puppet.

If you have an idea for what you would like to see presented, please post those ideas in the PDX Puppet Google Group.

Meat, veggie, gluten-free, and vegan pizza will be available. The office is wheelchair accessible, and has an elevator. There is bike parking on the street and just inside the parking garage at the corner of Stark and SW 1st Ave. Parking is available on the street or at one of the many pay to park lots near the office.

We meet on the 1st Monday of every month. All are invited to join!

Agenda for March 2nd:

• 6 - 6:30pm: Eat pizza and chat with other Puppet users
• 6:30 - 7:15: "How Fuel Uses Puppet to Deploy OpenStack" - Christopher Aedo, Mirantis
• 7:15 - 8:00 "Advanced Metrics in PE Puppet Server" - Chris Price, Puppet Labs
• 8:00 - 8:15 Plan next meeting and mingle

"How Fuel Uses Puppet to Deploy OpenStack" - Christopher Aedo

Master or masterless, sequencing solutions, giant catalogs, getting in sync with upstream community manifests, and more - Christopher Aedo (from Mirantis) will talk about the lessons learned while building Fuel, the open source OpenStack deployment and management tool.

"Advanced Metrics in PE Puppet Server" - Chris Price

In this talk we take a look at some of the advanced metrics that are tracked inside of Puppet Server in Puppet Enterprise. We'll look at some settings, tools, and scripts that you can use to get detailed information about how your server is performing, what operations are taking the most CPU time, etc. We'll also get a sneak peak at some of the improvements that will be coming in a new PE release in the very near future.

Get in touch with meg@ puppetlabs.com if you're interested in talking (even briefly!) about how you're using Puppet. Also, let us know if you'd like to be on the schedule next month! You don't need to be an expert to speak - we love to hear about what folks are doing with Puppet.

If you have an idea for what you would like to see presented, please post those ideas in the PDX Puppet Google Group.

Meat, veggie, gluten-free, and vegan pizza will be available. The office is wheelchair accessible, and has an elevator. There is bike parking on the street and just inside the parking garage at the corner of Stark and SW 1st Ave. Parking is available on the street or at one of the many pay to park lots near the office.

Please join us!

For those of you who are curious about Puppet Server and Passenger, Jeff McCune, engineer on the Puppet Server development team, will be here to answer your questions and we'll have a Jordan Olshevski, Puppet Labs Professional Services Engineer, to chat about scaling your Puppet infrastructure. Corey Osman will show us how he uses Docker for Module Development.

Other folks - we'd love to see what you're doing with Puppet, so feel free to step up at the meeting and show us! It's a great chance to practice any talks that you're working or demo what you're working on - any length talk accepted :-)!

• 6:00-6:30 pm Pizza and salad (vegan, vegetarian and gluten free options)
• 6:30 - 7:15 pm How to scale an orthodox Puppet infrastructure - Jordan Olshevski, Puppet Labs
• 7:15 - 7:45 pm Q & A on Passenger and Puppet Server with Jeff McCune, Puppet Labs
• 7:45-8:10pm Leveraging Docker for Puppet Module Development - Corey Osman
• 8:10-8:15 pm Plan next meeting and mingle

Puppet Labs recently moved offices and is now located in the Pearl District. Our new office occupies nearly 10,000 square feet—the entire top floor—of the General Automotive Building. Two walls of floor to ceiling windows offer beautiful views of the Portland skyline and the Park Blocks. Reclaimed wood trim and solid maple desks are warm and inviting, and industrial lighting fills the penthouse space with the bright future of open source in Portland.

We hope you'll join us for a night of celebration!

Space is limited, so please RSVP

Puppet Labs is proud to offer the following services by local Portland restaurants, bars and entertainment:

Limited open bar by the Teardrop Lounge Catered Snacks by Toast Live music by the Scott Pemberton Trio