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Alfresco Tech Talk Live #95Alfresco Software Provisioning Kit (Enzo Rivello, Maurizio Pillitu)

About us

Maurizio (maoo) Pillitu• Alfresco DevOps• Before, 30 months of Alfresco

Consultancy • Lead Developer of

– https://github.com/Alfresco/chef-alfresco

https://github.com/Alfresco/chef-alfresco



About us

Alfresco DevOpsKeep the lights on• Public services (activiti|my.alfresco.com,

Alfresco Online Trials)• Internal infrastructure• Internal projects (QA, Engineering, Sales,

Marketing, ...)Automate all the things• Automation across the borders

– Technologies– Departments

• Integration• Evangelisation

Alfresco SPKDesign|Run|Integrate Alfresco stacks

AgendaAgenda

• The Challenges• Alfresco Installation• Alfresco SPK• Wrapping up

The Challenges

ChallengesThe hosting choice• Myriads of Cloud Providers

– AWS, Google Compute, Rackspace, OpenShift, Tutum, …• Myriads of Orchestration Tools

– Cloudformation, Beanstalk, Kubernetes, Terraform, Cloudify/Tosca, Mesos, Brooklyn, …

Provisioning challenges• Distributed architectures• Articulated provisioning process• Alfresco Installer limitations

Provisioning

Solutions• Alfresco Installation

– Customisable/Configurable– Modular– Versionable– Portable

• Alfresco SPK– Define/reuse a stack– Test a stack locally– Create Official Alfresco Images (Marketplace AMIs, Vagrant Boxes, …)– Create Custom Images– Integrate CI tools with image building process (release pipeline

integration)– Integrate orchestration tools to bootstrap immutable images (go live)

Provisioning

About us

Enzo Rivello• 3 months of Alfresco Devops

– Activiti Team• Before, Playstation DevOps• Lead Developer of

– https://github.com/Alfresco/alfresco-spk– https://github.com/Alfresco/vagrant-pac

ker-plugin• Follow

– https://www.alfresco.com/blogs/devops– https://github.com/enzor

https://github.com/Alfresco/alfresco-spk



https://github.com/Alfresco/vagrant-packer-plugin


https://www.alfresco.com/blogs/devops

https://www.alfresco.com/blogs/devops

https://github.com/enzor

Alfresco Installation

Instance Lifecycle


Stack Genesis

RootImage(distro) <provision> <bootstrap>

<full provisioning>

ID4 IPs

ID

Stack Engine

AlfrescoImage

(tiered) Solr 2

Share1

Share 2

Solr 1

Chef Alfresco (beyond Alfresco Installer)• Cool logo• Component-based: repo, share, solr, aos and

more• Additional components: haproxy, nginx and more• Supports 3 run modes (full-provisioning,

provisioning-only, bootstrap-only)• Any Alfresco configuration can be customised• Can run continuously (install on top of an

installation)• Downloads artifacts (VS Alfresco Installer

monolithic installation)– Maven compatible (uses artifacts.alfresco.com by

default)– Use Maven repository of your choice– (optional) Use URL or file-system to resolve

artifacts• Open Source, 68 releases, 11 contributors -




Alfresco SPKand the Vagrant Packer Plugin

Alfresco SPK OperationsAlfresco SPK

Choosea stack

Browse stack examples provided by the SPK

Run/Tweak

Spin up a stack locally using Virtualbox or

VmWare

Build Images

Define Alfresco immutable images

Integrate

Run the CI and orchestration tool

of your choice

Alfresco SPK

• Stacks (Vagrantfile)– community-allinone– enterprise-clustered (share + solr)

• Instance templates– community-allinone.json– share.json– solr.json

SPK Provided Stacks

Configuration items• Instance template(s) (JSON), which contain

– Chef Alfresco Attributes– Image building configuration (Packer)– Local run (Vagrant)

• Vagrantfile to define the stack and reference instance template(s)– Packer Plugin common configuration– Local Vagrant run common configuration

Alfresco SPKInstance template – Chef Alfresco components{ "name": ”...", "alfresco" : { "components" : <alfresco_components> }}

["haproxy","nginx","tomcat","transform","repo","share","solr","mysql"]

Allinone components

["haproxy","nginx","tomcat","transform","repo","share"]

Share components

["haproxy","tomcat”,"repo","transform","solr"]Solr components

Alfresco SPK

Vagrantfile – community-allinoneVagrant.configure("2") do |config|

# Source Image configuration config.vm.box = "<vagrant_box_name>" config.vm.box_url = "<vagrant_box_url>”

# Vagrant up configuration instance_template = JSON.parse("<instance_template_json_path>") config.vm.provision "chef_solo" do |chef| chef.json = instance_template chef.recipe_url = "<chef_alfresco_tar_url>" instance_template['run_list'].each do |recipe| chef.add_recipe recipe end endEnd

https://artifacts.alfresco.com/.../releases/.../chef-alfresco-0.6.25.tar.gz

Alfresco SPK

Vagrantfile – enterprise-clusteredVagrant.configure("2") do |config|

# Source Image configuration config.vm.box = "<vagrant_box_name>" config.vm.box_url = "<vagrant_box_url>”

# Vagrant up multi-machine configuration ['share','solr'].each do |role| config.vm.define role do |instance| instance_template = JSON.parse("<#{role}.json >") config.vm.provision "chef_solo" do |chef| chef.json = instance_template chef.recipe_url = "<chef_alfresco_tar_url>" instance_template['run_list'].each do |recipe| chef.add_recipe recipe end end end end

Alfresco SPK

Vagrantfile –Packer Plugin configurationVagrant.configure("2") do |config|

# Mandatory Vagrant Packer Plugin configuration config.packer_build.instance_templates = [”share.json”,”solr.json”]

# Optional Chef provisioning configuration config.packer_build.cookbooks_url = “<chef-alfresco_tar_gz_url>” config.packer_build.cookbooks_username = “<chef-alfresco_tar_gz_username>” config.packer_build.cookbooks_password = “<chef-alfresco_tar_gz_password>”

# Chef Databags configuration config.packer_build.databags_url = “<databags_tar_gz_url>” config.packer_build.databags_username = “<databags_username>” config.packer_build.databags_password = “<databags_password>”

# Alternative for Chef cookbooks configuration (using Berkshelf) # config.packer_build.berksfile = “Berksfile”

Alfresco SPK

Try it yourself!# Clone SPK repogit clone https://github.com/Alfresco/alfresco-spk

# Install Vagrant Packer Pluginvagrant plugin install vagrant-packer-plugin

cd alfresco-spk/stacks/community-allinone# Or build your own Vagrantfile and instance template(s)

# Run the stack locallyvagrant up

# Build immutable images (default to Vagrantbox)vagrant packer-build


Wrapping up

Wrapping up

[Go Live]Configure

orchestrati

on tools & CI

[Image Build]Vagrant packer-

build

[Tweak and Local run]Vagrant up

[Configuration]Choose an SPK stack and play with Vagrantfile and instance

templates

Go Live – Zero to Hero

Wrapping up

Infrastructure as Code delivered

• Revamped installation experience– Component-based installation– Controls provisioning and bootstrap phases


• Reusable instance templates• Reusable images• Integration with cloud providers and orchestration

tools


SPK





Wrapping up

SPK in Alfresco• AWS Marketplace AMIs

– Alfresco 5.1 Enterprise Allinone– Alfresco 5.1 Enterprise Allinone + Records Management– Alfresco Activiti Enterprise

• Online Trials• Offline Trials / Sales Demos• Alfresco Benchmark• Alfresco Infrastructure• Alfresco Cloud

Wrapping up

Roadmap• Support additional Linux/Unix OSes• Publish Alfresco Vagrant boxes for existing instance templates

– allinone, share, solr, …• Add (seamless) integration with orchestration tools

– Terraform, Cloudformation, Kubernetes, …• Integrate with Alfresco SDK• Improved docs for advanced Chef users• Publish chef-alfresco into Chef Supermarket

Product capabilities, timeframes and features are subject to change and should not be viewed as Alfresco commitments.

LinksLinksCode• https://github.com/Alfresco/chef-alfresco• https://github.com/Alfresco/alfresco-spk• https://github.com/Alfresco/vagrant-packer-plugin

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http://github.com/Alfresco/chef-alfresco



http://github.com/Alfresco/alfresco-spk


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