Automated Deployment With SeedBank And Puppet

In this talk I will show and open source some of my tools which I have been building around Puppet.

The tools automate the installation of Debian machines from scratch (just via a Debian ISO) or via a PXE/TFTP/DHCP server and a small seedBank daemon.

seedBank is a simple tool to manage/template Debian seed files in an easy way. As it is based on seed files it will do a clean installation which gets all the data from a standard Debian repository, using standard Debian tools.

During my talk I will install a few machines from scratch forming a core infrastructure.

I will also give a short insight in the Puppet structure I have designed and worked out with my colleagues, which helps us to keep our Puppet code maintainable and flexible. This structure also provides a clear separation between configuration and 'core' Puppet modules. This makes it possible to do our Puppet runs in one run because of the clearly defined dependencies between Puppet modules.