This document discusses infrastructure as code. It describes using VMware and SDKs like VMware vSphere and VI Java SDK to programmatically manage virtual machines. It also discusses using Chef to automate the installation of Linux, packages, and middleware like JBoss. The document provides examples of using Chef to configure JBoss and links to GitHub repositories for VIAutomator and autoimport samples. It concludes with a Q&A section.

1. INFRASTRUCTURE AS CODE
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2. CONTACT
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Sascha Möllering
Software Engineering Team Lead
sascha.moellering@zanox.com
http://www.der-maschinenstuermer.de/
@sascha242
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3. TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. PROBLEM?
2. VMWARE AND SDKS
3. CHEF AND JBOSS
4. Q&A
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4. PROBLEM?
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5. PROBLEM?
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6. VMWARE AND SDKS
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7. VMWARE AND SDKS
●VMware vSphere Web Services SDK
●Official SDK
●Supported by VMware
●Complicated
●Architecture based on
● managed objects (server)
● managed object reference (client)
● data objects
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8. VMWARE AND SDKS
●VMware VI Java SDK
●Open source project created by Steve Jin
from VMware R&D
●http://vijava.sourceforge.net/
●Simplify the use of VI SDK and improve the
performance
●Less lines of code, much faster, and much
more readable code
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9. VMWARE AND SDKS
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vSphere server
VirtualMachine
Managed
object
GuestInfo
data object
vSphere client application
Managed object
reference to a
VirtualMachine
GuestInfo
data object
data objects
network
connection

10. VMWARE AND SDKS
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https://github.com/zanox/viAutomator

11. CHEF AND JBOSS
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12. CHEF AND JBOSS
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13. CHEF AND JBOSS
●Linux-installation
1. FAI (http://fai-project.org/) for basic setup
2. Chef for additional APT-packages
3. Chef for middleware installation
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14. CHEF AND JBOSS
Autodiscovery
Queue
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15. CHEF AND JBOSS
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https://github.com/rhq-
project/samples/tree/master/cli/autoimport

16. Q&A
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