This is the Configuration Management Workshop reader as provided to you by the Operator Groep Delft. This reader is composed form both an introduction to Configuration Management with Puppet as well as a reference for later use.
1. About the Contributors
Jeroen van Meeuwen (RHCE, LPIC-2, MCP, CCNA) is currently a Senior System Engineer, specialized in Linux systems and Systems Architecture, working for Operator Groep Delft in The Netherlands. His experience with computers goes back to the early '90s, with a Philips P2000T being over a decade old, little tapes containing programs but most importantly games, and 16K memory cartridges. Since 1998, he has been involved with Red Hat Linux (5.2 at that time), and was an early adopter of Fedora Core Linux in November 2003, until his first real contributions to Free and Open Source Software were made in 2005.
As a contributor to Free and Open Source Software within the Fedora community, amongst other programs, Jeroen has developed Revisor, a Python framework to build distributions with. With regards to Configuration Management, Jeroen currently maintains or co-maintains -amongst other packages- the entire stack of packages related to Puppet
Stefan Hartsuiker (RHCE, LPIC-2, MCP) is currently a System Engineer, specialized in maintaining Linux Systems, also working for Operator Groep Delft in the Netherlands and a colleague of Jeroen van Meeuwen. His experience with computers started in the late 80's with a Acorn Electron, a smaller version of the BBC Electron (no it had nothing to do with the British Broadcasting Company), for which he had to type in several pages worth of lines of code just to play a game. His first introduction to Linux came in the early 90's with the slackware distribution on about 32 floppies. Since then he has used and maintained Suse, Debian, RedHat and Fedora systems.
Currently Stefan is a contributor to Revisor and working on packaging Free and Open Source Software in the Fedora Community. He is also a fan of Puppet and is working with Jeroen on designing an infrastructure for Puppetmasters.
