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Building self-service on demand infrastructure with Puppet and VMware

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Apr. 1, 2013
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Building self-service on demand infrastructure with Puppet and VMware

  1. Building self-service infrastructure with Puppet and VMware An intro to vSphere automation
  2. Really about… •  A little about Operations at Puppet Labs. •  Why we choose on premise virtualization over giving everyone EC2/Rackspace credentials. •  How we’re tackling the ramifications of that ^ decision. 2 | CONFIDENTIAL & PROPRIETARY
  3. Building self-service infrastructure with Puppet and VMware An intro to vSphere automation
  4. Who am I? •  Cody Herriges •  Operations Engineer •  Joined Puppet Labs in 2010 •  Been using Puppet for 5.5 years •  Currently responsible for internal Virtualization and Storage architectures. 4 | CONFIDENTIAL & PROPRIETARY
  5. Puppet Labs Operations •  Three senior infrastructure engineers. •  Two desktop support engineers. •  Two Jr-ish infrastructure engineers. •  Both start while I am here in Europe. 5 | CONFIDENTIAL & PROPRIETARY
  6. Our current strategy •  In the cloud? •  Our production web applications; forge, redmine, ask, puppetlabs.com. •  All other production? •  On premise data center. 6 | CONFIDENTIAL & PROPRIETARY
  7. Defining focus •  We were always chasing things that were “broken”. •  We weren’t making any personal growth. •  No time to innovate. •  Infrastructure design and implementation never matured. 7 | CONFIDENTIAL & PROPRIETARY
  8. VMware •  Our implementation was holding us back. •  Rebuilt everything. •  Networking infrastructure provided by 1GbE Cisco and 10GbE Juniper. •  Storage over iSCSI, backed by EMC VNX and Nexenta. 8 | CONFIDENTIAL & PROPRIETARY
  9. IaaS •  Pros •  Operational over a capital investment. •  You get off the ground fast. •  Don’t have to worry about power, rack space, cooling, cable management, networking. •  On demand unlimited resources at your finger tips. 9 | CONFIDENTIAL & PROPRIETARY
  10. IaaS •  Cons •  Performance is expensive. •  Scale is expensive. •  Redundancy can increase cost and/or application complexity. •  You lose most of your control over networking. 10 | CONFIDENTIAL & PROPRIETARY
  11. Internal Infrastructure •  Pros •  Performance and scale per dollar is much less. •  Redundancy is loads simpler when you control layer 2. •  Infrastructure can fit into the way you work and develop. •  During an outage there is always something you can do about it. 11 | CONFIDENTIAL & PROPRIETARY
  12. Internal Infrastructure •  Cons •  You have to buy things. •  There is a datacenter to manage. •  Initial roll out will take time. 12 | CONFIDENTIAL & PROPRIETARY
  13. Internal Infrastructure •  Other considerations •  If you have a physical office you’ll will have some amount of internal infrastructure. •  There will always be a point where you out grow that converted coat closet. •  The product you develop may require it. 13 | CONFIDENTIAL & PROPRIETARY
  14. Loading ESXi •  vSphere hypervisor (ESXi) uses kickstart. •  Razor, capable of loading ESXi to non-volatile storage. •  vCenter’s built in gPXE system, vSphere Auto Deploy. •  We’ve used both. 14 | CONFIDENTIAL & PROPRIETARY
  15. vCenter Automation •  Self-contained environments •  Easy permission management •  Modules •  http://forge.puppetlabs.com/vmware/ vmware_lib •  http://forge.puppetlabs.com/vmware/vcenter •  https://github.com/ody/vmware-vcenter/tree/ at_puppetlabs 15 | CONFIDENTIAL & PROPRIETARY
  16. DISCLAIMER I had to fork these modules…they’ll get merged in soon… 16 | CONFIDENTIAL & PROPRIETARY
  17. vCenter Automation •  The “transport” resource 17 | CONFIDENTIAL & PROPRIETARY
  18. vCenter Automation •  Creating folders with “vc_folder” 18 | CONFIDENTIAL & PROPRIETARY
  19. vCenter Automation •  Creating vDS port groups with “vc_vdsportgroup” 19 | CONFIDENTIAL & PROPRIETARY
  20. vCenter Automation •  Setting permissions with “vc_permission” 20 | CONFIDENTIAL & PROPRIETARY
  21. More from Puppet Labs Operations •  http://forge.puppetlabs.com/ploperations •  https://github.com/puppetlabs-operations •  http://puppetlabs.com/blog 21 | CONFIDENTIAL & PROPRIETARY
  22. Questions? About anything really! 22 | CONFIDENTIAL & PROPRIETARY
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