Automate, automate, automate

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DevOps?

For me:

Automate the hell out of everything that you encounter while developing applications or while ensuring that applications actually run and keep running

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What is an IT environment?

Depends on your perspective

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Coolio Continuous Delivery?

Quality software engineeringDreaming of the Cloud But where does all that pesky hardware come from?

Okay maybe not this guy

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Install all the tools in the box and hope?

I want my job done faster!Loving the sound of 1000s of servers buzzing in the datacenterBut what do you do it for? What’s the bigger picture?

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It’s the economy business!

They probably won’t come to you asking for DevOps, but it’s worth finding out what benefits the business will have

Aside

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Problem: fragmentationAutomation is good. But how, what, why, where, how much ... ?Thousands of tools have been developed over the years, but which one are good, which ones fit together?Needs structure, a vision

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DevOps Toolchain

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Managing hardware and VMs

xCATCrowbar / OpenStackAssigning

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... supply process ..Have you considered the datacenter itself?Making the supply process more automated. Get approvals done up-front as much as possible.Limit choices - make it very easy for teams to pick hardware that has been pre-selected

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Managing DataCenter: hardware and VMs

xCAT

Standardize hardware and process

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Crowbar / OpenStackAssigning

Planning

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xCAT: DataCenter ControleXtreme Cloud Administration Toolkithttp://xcat.sourceforge.net/Open Source: Eclipse Public LicenseDeveloped by IBMUsed for supercomputing clusters, but works with smaller networks too

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FeaturesRemote control (power, reboot, console) of physical machines and VM’sRemotely installing / provisioning operating systems onto machinesKeeping a central an overview of all machines: managing + monitoring

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Node installation

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Notes:xCAT is a generic system to manage your datacenter. It is very powerful and customizable.It also requires quite an investment in knowledge.Documentation is not very well structured

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Crowbar / OpenStack

OpenStack - Private Cloud:http://openstack.org/Crowbar - OpenStack installer developed by Dell:https://github.com/dellcloudedge/crowbar/wiki

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Node installation

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Differences

xCAT is more general-purpose, doesn’t provide “cloudy” services such as cloud data storageOpenStack is focused on managing VMs for a private cloud and providing other “cloudy” services

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VagrantHow do you develop an provisioned system from the ground up?Vagrant can do that:

VirtualBox to boot a VM + imagePuppet or Chef to perform further configuration

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VagrantHome page:http://vagrantup.com/Open Source License: MIT licenseThings that would make it cooler:

Other VM support (VMWare, Zen, etc.)xCAT / OpenStack support

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Demo

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