RightScale Webinar: ServerTemplate Deep Dive: The Newest Multi-Cloud Features

ServerTemplate Deep Dive:The Newest Multi-Cloud Features August 23, 2012 Watch the video of this webinar

2#Your Panel TodayPresenting• Tim Miller, Sr. Director, ServerTemplate Development, RightScale• Cary Penniman, Senior Software Engineer, RightScaleQ&A• Jared Marcell, Account Manager, RightScalePlease use the “Questions” window to ask questions any time!

3#Agenda• Overview• Multi-Cloud Templates• Deeper Dive• References• Q/A

4#Script Is a Script

5#Secret Is the Multi-Cloud Image

6#Code Once, Run Anywhere!

7# Why Multi-Cloud? Performance Price FeaturesCompliance Disaster Geography SLA Recovery Want to run in both Public and Private Clouds

8#Putting It into Practice Application Portfolio App 1 App 2 App 3 App N Requirements Filter Performance Cost Security Compliance Reliability Resource Pools

9#RightScale Multi-Cloud ServerTemplates• Linux • HA Proxy Load Balancer • PHP, Tomcat & Rails App Servers • MySQL 5.1 and 5.5 Database Managers • PostgreSQL Database Manager • Storage Toolbox • 4 different LAMP All-In-Ones • Linux Base• Windows • IIS App Server • Active Directory • SQL Server Database Manager • Windows Base

10#RightScale ServerTemplate ReleaseMethodology• Multiple lineages of STs to be used based on your requirements • LTS Lineages – Stable releases that will only be updated with bugfixes and are supported for 18 months from initial release • Infinity Lineage – Main development lineage with the latest features/clouds

11# v12.11-LTSMulti-Cloud Deep Dive

12#New Features: Machine Tags• Tags are a useful way of attaching useful metadata to Servers• Tool support to add, remove and query server tags• Three main parts: namespace, predicate and value• Syntax: namespace:predicate=value• Example: • loadbalancer:www=lb • (a load balancer server for the www vhost)

13#New Features: Remote Script Invocation• Invoked by one server, run on another• Uses tags for routing• Scoped to the current deployment (or account)• Example: • rs_run_recipe --name “lb::do_attach_request" --recipient_tags "loadbalancer:www=lb" --json ~/my_info.json

14#Using tags and remote script invocation lb::handle_attach LOAD BALANCERS loadbalancer: lb::do_attach_request www = lb loadbalancer:www= lb APP SERVERS AUTOSCALE loadbalancer: www = app REPLICATE MASTER DB SLAVE DB

15#Demo

16#New Features: Storage Toolbox• Its all about persistence!• Primary Backup • Uses local cloud persistence • Volumes snapshots preferred (i.e. EBS, Volumes)• Secondary Backup • Uses remote cloud for redundancy • Useful in case of local cloud outage • LVM snapshot uploads to a Remote Object Store (i.e. Amazon S3, Azure Storage, Google Cloud Storage, Rackspace CloudFiles)• Built on our battle tested EBS Toolset

17#New Features: Storage Toolbox (cont.)

18#New Features: Built-In Chef Support• System Configuration Language• High Level, modular components• Idempotent (potential for)• External Source Control Management• Easier to customize (modules, pull requests)• Large pool of reusable content, community• Chef Language != Chef Platform• Now supporting Chef v0.10.10

19#New Features: Built-In Firewall SupportRecipes• sys_firewall::default• sys_firewall::setup_rule• sys_firewall::do_list_rulesResource• sys_firewall• actions – update – update_request

20#New Features: Update ActionTo open a local port to all servers with a given tag use: sys_firewall "Open 3306 to all appservers" do machine_tag "appserver:active=true" port 3306 enable true action :update endThis can be useful as a server is booting to open up access for multiple systems at once.

21#New Features: Update Request ActionTo request all servers with a given tag close a port to a given IP address use: sys_firewall "Request all close port 8000" do machine_tag "loadbalancer:www=app" port 8000 enable false ip_addr node[:cloud][:private_ips][0] action :update_request endThis can be useful when decommissioning a running server that had previously requested ports opened.

22#Update action and firewall support db::do_appservers_deny LOAD BALANCERS db::request_appserver_deny database:active=true APP SERVERS AUTOSCALE REPLICATE database: active=true MASTER DB SLAVE DB

23#Demo

24#New Features: Others• Multiple Block Devices• Load balancer supports multiple vhost pools• Application Servers code download options• Application Servers load balance options• Support for multiple DNS providers• Alert for “seconds behind master”• EC2 EBS Stop/Start support http://feedback.rightscale.com

25#References• Clouds Contact RightScale: (866) 720-0208 • Picking a Public Cloud sales@rightscale.com • 10 Keys for Buliding Private Clouds www.rightscale.com • Things to Consider When Building a Private Cloud• Building ServerTemplates • Creating ServerTemplates using Chef - Part 1 • Creating ServerTemplates using Chef - Part 2 • Creating ServerTemplates using Chef - Part 3• Multi-Cloud Cookbooks • https://github.com/rightscale/rightscale_cookbooks http://feedback.rightscale.com

RightScale Webinar: ServerTemplate Deep Dive: The Newest Multi-Cloud Features

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