Why Teams call analytics are critical to your entire business
Boundary for puppet @ puppet conf2012
1. Rethink Monitoring
What Just Happened?
Leveraging Puppet & Boundary to Manage Dynamic Environments
Molly Stamos, Director of Products
2. Boundary: Highly Distributed Platform delivering SaaS
• Boundary is a SaaS application that monitors application performance by analyzing
application communication over the network"
• Platform runs on Ubuntu Linux with a mix of off the shelf and home grown components "
• Continuous deployment shop - code rolled into production as its ready "
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3. Boundary: The Team
• “devops” shop – but two primary Ops guys managing about 200 nodes and overseeing
all automation "
Scott Smith Joe Williams
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• Everyone participates in operations – everyone is on call rotation (and gets the joy of
2am wake up calls)"
• Environment is hosted – Provider racks & stacks – Joe & Scott do everything else"
5. Configuration Change in Production
• Kobayashi is our historical data store "
• 9 node cluster "
• Riak under the covers"
• Provides historical feed of data for Boundary dashboards (beyond streaming system)"
• Configuration change needed to alleviate feared future performance problems"
• In Riak, must perform a “rolling upgrade”"
• Push config change to each node one at a time, restart services, wait for cluster to reach steady state"
• Unsure how cluster behavior would change "
11. Download and Install the Boundary Module
• Fairly Straightforward:"
• sudo puppet module search boundary
• sudo puppet module install puppetlabs-boundary
Make sure you get this one: puppetlabs-boundary (NOT the bprobe one) !
• **Some configuration required**"
• Boundary::params class – set your API Key and your OrgID "
• Located in /etc/puppetlabs/puppet/boundary/manifests/params.pp "
• Boundary.yaml file – set your API Key and OrgID "
• Located in /etc/puppetlabs/puppet/boundary/"
12. Where to get your API Key & OrgID in Boundary
• Go to Organization -> Settings"
• API Key & OrgID"
• API Key is like your password – keep it secret"
14. Get Boundary Now
• Boundary: http://boundary.com/signup/"
• Literally takes less than 2 minutes to deploy"
• When was the last time a monitoring tool took less than 2 minutes to set up?"
• Free to use up to 2GB per day "
• How do I get more information? "
• Website: www.boundary.com"
• Email: service@boundary.com"