OMC Interviews Luke

This is a post from Luke's old blog; it is saved here statically for historical purposes, as of October 2008

The Open Management Consortium has interviewed me about Puppet, discussion ranging through competitors, Ruby, and the development history:

Chuck Talk: Where do you see Puppet in the IT stack? Is this meant as a centralized management tool, a satellite management toolset, a NOC toolset - where do you see it working the best, and what makes an ideal environment for Puppet to be implemented?

Luke Kanies: I mostly talk about Puppet as a single tool, but the truth is that its lots of pieces packaged as a single tool. My real goal is to build multiple stacks communicating as part of an ecosystem of more advanced tools, where your configuration management tool talks to your monitoring tool which in turn talks to decision engines which in turn change the running configurations. Puppet is a first step towards that ecosystem, but I had to build a single product that could stand on its own, and towards that end Ive developed Puppet as a centralized management tool, where you perform all of your work on the central server and it propagates out to clients from there.

Reductive Labs is a member of the OMC, and it's great to see them starting to put out information about their members.