foreman_provision

Infrastructure as Code

Gent, Nils Domrose

02.02.2016cfgmgmtlogo http://cfgmgmtcamp.eu

About me

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Head of IT @ inovex GmbH

• Systems Engineer• Automation• Architecture• Security• Network Engineering

@endyman

The Problem

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The Problem

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repeat the last steps for each system….

• 2 Loadbalancers• 2 Webservers• 2 Middleware Servers• 2 KeyValue Stores= 8 Systemes

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... in each environment

• Dev• Demo• Stage• Production= 36 Systems*

*with smallest prod sizing

The Problem

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The Problem

http://www.memgenerator.net 12

The Solution

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Working with the API

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foreman_provison

Foreman Logo http://theforeman.github.io 15

Getting Started

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Accessing the API

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Provisioning Data

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Provisioning Data

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Provisioning Data

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Dry-Run

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Provisioning

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Result

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VMware? VMware!

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More Examples

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Limitations

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• Currently Objects can only be checked or created• no update• no delete

• Fragile to changes in compute resources (fog updates)

• Issue #14 - Use apipie bindings

Possible Alternatives

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• theforeman/foreman_deployments• Terraform Provider

https://github.com/mattwilmott/terraform-foreman

Deployment Pipeline

Logogs: https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org, http://theforeman.github.io 28

Links

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Arnold‘s inovex Blog Post:https://goo.gl/hnAfu3

Source Code @ Github: https://github.com/FILIADATAGmbH/foreman_provision

Slideshare:http://de.slideshare.net/inovex

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We are hiring

http://www.inovexperts.com

Thank You!Nils Domrose

Head of IT

inovex GmbH

Ludwig-Erhard-Allee 6

76131 Karlsruhe