The document describes a customer's need to deploy applications in containers across 50-60 edge locations with centralized lifecycle management and monitoring. The proposed solution involves automating the deployment of OpenShift clusters at each edge location using Ansible Tower for centralized management without relying on constant connectivity. Key parts of the solution include Git, Grafana, OpenShift, Ansible Tower, Ansible, vSphere, RHV and container native storage. The solution aims to provide autonomous operation, self-healing, high availability and redundancy while reducing costs, risks and speeding time to market through automation.

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Customer Use Case
Automation of PaaS
at the edge
Presenter’s:
Guy Rakover and Anoel Yakoubov
AnsibleTowerandOCPDeployments

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Customer vision
It started with: we want to deploy our applications in containers at our 50
- 60 edge locations

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Customer vision
On VMWare hypervisors

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Customer vision
And we need it to have centralized lifecycle management and monitoring

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Customer vision
But we can’t guarantee the connectivity

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Customer vision
And it has to be HA, reliable, secure, autonomous, self healing, so no human
errors

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We went like this first
We’re Red Hat Services, magic is our middle name

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But then we went: So let’s get building
Git
Grafana
OpenShift (full)
Ansible Tower
Ansible
VSphere
RHV
Container Native Storage (Gluster)
Solution parts

9. Customer’s vision of end to end solution
99/12/19
Central Application
Lifecycle Management
Remote Deployment from
central cloud to edge locations
Cloudlet in edge location
-containerized apps
Autonomous
Operation and
Monitoring
Self healed, Fully
Redundant, HA platform

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Business values of the solution
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Automation, no human error
As much of the cluster deployment,
scaling and general management
should be automated in order to avoid
human error, thereby reducing
maintenance overhead
Security, no unauthorized use
Controlled user access to the platform
as well as limited visibility/accessibility
to the underlying automated
procedures
Self Evaluation, no drift
Workflows that include sanity tests
that review the deployment’s state to
insure stability and reliability to the
end user.
Centralized Control &
Decentralized Run
The ability to deploy concurrently
multiple High Available OCP Clusters
and monitor them from a central
location simultaneously.

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DEMO
EXPLAINED

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System Topology
DATA CENTER 1 DATA CENTER 2
NON-PROD PROD 1 PROD 2
REGISTRY YUM REPO

13. CONFIDENTIAL DesignatorCentralized Monitoring
DATA CENTER 1 DATA CENTER 2
NON-PROD PROD 1 PROD 2
REGISTRY YUM REPO

14. CONFIDENTIAL DesignatorAutomation View
DATA CENTER 1 DATA CENTER 2
NON-PROD
PROD 2PROD 1
source
repository
CI/CD
enginedev container
Ansible Tower
Workflow YUM REPO REGISTRY

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RHV 4.3 / VMWare Infrastructure
Ansible Tower Cluster Provisioning Workflow
YUM REPO REGISTRY
Masters Infra Nodes App Nodes
OCP Cluster
Pre-Installation
Prerequisites
Check
Cluster Deploy
Post Jobs
(Grafana
Datastore
Registration)
Provision
Virtual
Machines
Sanity Tests

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VMWare Infrastructure / RHV 4.3
Ansible Tower Application Deployment Workflow
YUM REPO REGISTRY
Masters Infra Nodes App Nodes
OCP Cluster
Pre-Installation
Scale Up
Cluster
Node
Configuration
Update
Application
Deployment
Provision
Virtual
Machines
Sanity Tests
App2 Nodes

17. CONFIDENTIAL DesignatorCORPORATE SLIDE TEMPLATES
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To recap the customer achieved:
“Central management of Edge locations without needing highly skilled IT
personal by providing automation infrastructure for deploying,
monitoring and scaling multiple OpenShift Clusters in a disconnected
environment in a secure, self healing, autonomous way”
Reduced costs of ownership, Reduced risk (both human and errors),
Allowed for faster time to market

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Current Engagement Status
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Cluster Deployments
● Multiple end users independently deploying OCP
Clusters
● Application Deployments (Scale-Up and App Deploy)
● Dynamic Inventories to simplify user input
VMware Infrastructure Ansible Automation
● Provisioning the VMware ESX hosts
● vCenter Deployment
Peripherals Ansible Automation
● DNS Deployment and Record management
● SSH Key Management
● And more !

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Solution Components: (RH and Integration)
Ansible - Utilize playbooks and roles to provide a modular
solution;
cutting the solution into automated reusable independent stages
Ansible Tower - Playbook orchestration for different scenarios
and inventory management
Gitlab/Github - Repository for ansible playbooks/roles allowing
centralized continued collaboration

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