1. Infrastructure as code
Pixelpark Innovation Lab
Cologne, 8 November 2011

2. 1 Introduction
2 Just enough… OS
3 Just enough… image building
4 Just enough… infrastructure code
5 Summary

3. Agenda
1. Introduction
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5. Cloud Stack
SaaS § e.g. Salesforce etc.
Software as a Service
Flexibilitx of Purpose
Level of Abstraction
PaaS § e.g. Google App Engine,
§ Windows Azure, Heroku
Platform as a Service
IaaS § e.g. Amazon EC2,
§ Rackspace etc.
Infrastructure as a Service
Public Hybrid Private
Control / Governance
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6. Raw image Basic Installation Software Stack Software Application
e.g. Debian § Network Configuration Configuration
§ Config
§ Partitions
§ …
TIME
ISO
Snapshot Snapshot
Golden Image
Autoconfig Chef Cookbook
(Saved once)
Middleware to scale
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7. Agenda
2. Just enough… OS
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8. Deployment models
Hybrid Cloud
“Cloud in your Pocket“ Private Cloud Public Cloud
§ Eucalyptus § Amazon Web Services
§ OpenStack § Rackspace
§ Crowbar § Google App Engine
§ OpenNebula § vCloud
§ … § …
Eucalyptus, Deltacloud
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9. „A cloud in your Pocket“
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11. Vagrant
Boxes
Virtual Box
Vagrant file
App 1 App 2 DB LB …
Git
(e.g. for
storing dotfiles)
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12. You want to get more boxes?
Try Vagrantbox.es.
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13. But…
Paranoid? Do you trust these boxes?
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14. Agenda
3. Just enough… image building
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15. VeeWee
Git
Kickstart preseed.cfg [ alt. e.g. FAI ] AutoYaST
definition.rb (Debian GNU Linux / Ubuntu) (openSUSE)
Predefined lists (Red Hat)
postinstall.sh
VeeWee
JeOS
Box 1 Box 2 Box n (Hosting e.g. S3, Dropbox, Local)
Vagrant file
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16. What about Public Clouds?
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17. Mccloud
AMIs
Porting Boxes to
AMIs soon
EC2
Fog
Mccloudfile (similar to boto)
App 1 App 2 LB …
Git
(Dotfiles)
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18. What about Private Clouds?
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19. Crowbar
Server Crowbar Chef Server
PXE PXE, DHCP, DNS
Bare Iron
Wget
Network
Discovery Wget Data Store
BIOS/RAID
config Wget
PXE
OS install
Chef Client
WGE
install
OpenStack
Chef takes over control
config
Ready for service Chef Comms
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Source: Rob Hirschfeld

20. Agenda
4. Just enough… infrastructure code
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22. Chef Solo
JSON
Push
Chef Solo
Configuration
Reconfigure
Cookbooks
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Source: peritor

23. Chef Server
JSON
Pull
Chef Client Chef Server
Configuration &
Cookbooks
Reconfigure
Cookbooks Cookbooks
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Source: peritor

24. Scenarios
AMI Boxes
Chef Server EC2
or
Puppet Server VirtualBox
Chef Server Crowbar
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25. Agenda
5. Summary
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26. Rundeck Pie
Just enough…
Deployinator coordination
Cfengine Puppet
Just enough…
Chef infrastructure code
Cloud Fog (Ruby) Public Cloud AWS Just enough…
Abstraction Boto (Python)
APIs Rackspace Operating System
Mccloud
Library jclouds (Java) CLIs vCloud
Private Cloud libvirt Private Cloud Xen
APIs KVM
Abstraction
Crowbar Library
CLIs
lxc
vSphere
„Cloud VMware Player
in your VMware fusion
Vagrant Pocket“ VirtualBox
VeeWee Just enough…
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Source: Patrick Debois

27. DevOps.
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28. Dev to all Ops Ops is a Black Box
Dev Ops
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29. We‘re looking forward to receiving your
feedback.

30. Imprint
The ideas and proposals included in this presentation are the intellectual property of Pixelpark
and subject to current copyright laws. The total or partial reproduction, and any disclosure to
third parties is permitted.
Axel Quack
Director Innovation Management
Pixelpark AG
Cäcilienkloster 2
50676 Köln
Tel: +49.221.951515-994
Fax: +49.221.951515-66
axel.quack@pixelpark.com
www.pixelpark.com
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