An army of servers
In Matt's post, he writes about how everyone talks about Big Data, but shows that its actual adoption is highly overstated. The thing is, when you're talking about Big Data you're actually talking about running a lot of servers. I mean a lot of servers. And how can you do that in an efficiently manner? Yes, you have to automate. Though Puppet has competition in other open source tools like Chef, CF Engine, Ansible and Salt, Puppet has establish itself as the market leader. So when you actually say that you need someone with skills to mange your company's Big Data investment, you probably just mean someone with knowledge of administrating an army of servers with Puppet.
Scrap your shell scripts
And according to the latest report from Dice, Puppet is the fasting growing tech skill of all. So scrap your shell scripts and start automate. Your work as a sysadmin can get done much faster, because you can have Puppet handle most or all of the details, and you can download code from other sysadmins to help you get done even faster.
Get started!
Puppet Labs has a one-stop-shop for learning where you can dowload their Learning VM. You can also get regular classroom training, hosted by us in the Nordics.
If you're not lucky to be at the IT automation event of the year in San Fransisco next week you can sign up for the Puppet Conf Live Streaming. You can catch the keynotes and track sessions covering best practices in IT automation, DevOps, continuous delivery and the Puppet ecosystem.
Automate or go extinct
Doing things manually certainly doesn't scale. Working with Puppet makes sure that you are doing something really valuable while you and the rest of your organization figure out how to be successful with Big Data.
