Upgrading to Puppet 8: The Good, The Bad and The Ruby (cmc2025)

We use Puppet for about 1200 Linux machines. This talk will recount our journey in upgrading from Puppet 7 to Puppet 8. I will talk about the incompatible changes to be aware of, how we handled them, and general strategy for handling Puppet major upgrades. The talk will cover: - our Puppetserver architecture - changes in Puppet 8 like legacy facts and Ruby 3.2 - how to prepare for any Puppet major upgrade - how to prepare for the Puppet 8 changes specifically - things that the ecosystem could do better Licensed to the public under https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ about this event: https://cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org/ghent2025/talk/T97UPU/