Razor: A Fresh Look at Provisioning - PuppetConf 2013
Over the past year, Razor has shown that there is huge demand for a policy-driven, discovery-based provisioning solution for bare metal and virtualized hardware. Simply put, Razor is the tool of choice to go from zero to fully-installed, including handoff to Puppet, in the most flexible and DevOps friendly way.
Based on our experience, we have revamped Razor significantly with an eye towards easier deployment and maintenance, more flexibility in describing the provisioning process, and more robust hardware support. This talk will explain what has changed (all the things that made Razor hard to deploy), what has stayed the same (all the cool features unique to Razor), and where we see Razor's journey going from here.
David Lutterkort
Principal Engineer, Puppet Labs
David is a principal engineer at Puppet Labs and the technical lead for Puppet Labs' development of Razor. Before joining Puppet Labs, David worked at Red Hat on a variety of management tools and served as the maintainer of Apache Deltacloud. He was one of the earliest contributors to Puppet, and is the main author of the Augeas configuration management tool.