Kelsey Hightower
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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And it turns out James wrote a lot of tech books back then.
And he's coming to the office and my manager wanted him to check out how we were using Puppet.
And I was like, okay, so, you know, this is a world-class expert.
And by that time, I had Puppet hidden behind Jira tickets.
And so you could just open a Jira ticket.
I had RPMs for everything.
You pick the RPM you wanted from a dropdown.
You pick your environment from a dropdown.
And magic happened.
And you got results.
Most people didn't even know Puppet existed.
Most people never touched it.
They just knew they can get anything on demand.
You could go to Jira and it does it.
I want IBM MQ series message server.
I want these three apps and I need this firewall set up.
No problem.
Open the right Jira tickets, get them approved.
When they're approved, we had this little, I called it Mr. Resetti.
All right.