Case Study: CERN automates large-scale data infrastructure management with Puppet

CERN automates 40 million particle collisions per second with Puppet

CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, faces the immense challenge of storing and analyzing mountains of data from its Large Hadron Collider, dealing with a million gigabytes daily. With an infrastructure that expanded without additional personnel, they needed to automate management and monitoring. They turned to the vendor Puppet to address these scaling issues.

Using Puppet, CERN automated the provisioning and management of tens of thousands of nodes. The solution integrated Puppet agents, servers, and PuppetDB into monitoring and data processing workflows. This automation allowed CERN to dramatically reduce support tickets, manage service changes with minimal disruption, and free IT staff to focus on high-value projects, all while supporting their massive research goals.

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