ServerTemplate™ Deep Dive: Configuration for Multi-Cloud Environments
•
0 likes•1,026 views
Interested in learning more about ServerTemplates? And how to use them across clouds? Join our fearless ServerTemplate team to discuss multi-cloud use cases, the latest ServerTemplates features, and a Q&A about using ServerTemplates in your cloud environment.
Recommended
More Related Content
What's hot
What's hot (20)
Similar to ServerTemplate™ Deep Dive: Configuration for Multi-Cloud Environments
Similar to ServerTemplate™ Deep Dive: Configuration for Multi-Cloud Environments (20)
More from RightScale
More from RightScale (20)
Recently uploaded
Recently uploaded (20)
ServerTemplate™ Deep Dive: Configuration for Multi-Cloud Environments
- 1. ServerTemplate Deep Dive: TM Configuration for Multi-Cloud Environments Tim Miller Sr. Director ServerTemplateTM Development Cary Penniman Sr. Software Engineer
- 2. 2# Agenda • Overview • Multi-Cloud Templates • Deeper Dive • References • Q/A Talk with the Experts.
- 3. 3# Why Multi-Cloud Performance Price Features Compliance Disaster Geography SLA Recovery Want to run in both Public and Private Clouds Talk with the Experts.
- 4. 4# Putting it into Practice Application Portfolio App 1 App 2 App 3 App N Requirements Filter Performance Cost Security Compliance Reliability Resource Pools Talk with the Experts.
- 5. 5# RightScale Multi-Cloud ServerTemplates TM • 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 Talk with the Experts.
- 6. 6# Script is a Script Talk with the Experts.
- 7. 7# Secret is the Multi-Cloud Image Talk with the Experts.
- 8. 8# Code Once, Run Anywhere! Talk with the Experts.
- 9. 9# Multi-Cloud Deep Dive Talk with the Experts.
- 10. 10# 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) Talk with the Experts.
- 11. 11# 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_right_script --name "LB Attach App Server" -- recipient_tags "loadbalancer:www=lb" --json ~/my_info.json Talk with the Experts.
- 12. 12# New Features: Storage Toolbox • It's 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. S3, CloudFiles) • Built on our battle tested EBS Toolset Talk with the Experts.
- 13. 13# New Features: Storage Toolbox (cont.) Talk with the Experts.
- 14. 14# 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 Talk with the Experts.
- 15. 15# New Features: Built-in Firewall Support Recipes • sys_firewall::default • sys_firewall::setup_rule • sys_firewall::do_list_rules Resource • sys_firewall • actions – update – update_request Talk with the Experts.
- 16. 16# New Features: Update Action To 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 end This can be useful as a server is booting to open up access for multiple systems at once. Talk with the Experts.
- 17. 17# New Features: Update Request Action To 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 end This can be useful when decommissioning a running server that had previously requested ports opened. Talk with the Experts.
- 18. 18# 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 Talk with the Experts.
- 19. 19# References • Clouds • Picking a Public Cloud • 10 Keys for Buliding Private Clouds • 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 Talk with the Experts.
- 20. Questions?
Editor's Notes
- Why Multi-Cloud ?-- What you see here is a list from our customers as to the reasons they are working with Clouds-- Most of these are self – explanatory ----Performance is not only latency, but can also be latency between compute and storage resources, VM provisioning times----Geography is about clouds footprint ----Compliance gov regulations ----Of course needing to run in both a private and public cloud----Since its just after lunch I though it might be a good idea to throw in some audience participation, does anyone else have one I that is not listed
- Again everyone is at a different spot in their cloud journey. Some are just starting in cloud others are optimizing their cloud usage