The document introduces the Marionette Collective framework, a Ruby-based orchestration framework that uses MCollective for parallel execution across middleware. It allows reusable, versioned automation code to be run ad-hoc or via APIs, scripts, and REST. The framework complements configuration management and allows flexible, pluggable extensions. It also features Puppet resource discovery, authentication, authorization, auditing, and reporting.

1. Marionette Collective
Introduction and Concepts
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2. Orchestration
Framework
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3. Complements
Configuration Management
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4. Ad-Hoc and Interactive
Actions
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5. Ad-Hoc and Interactive
Actions
code: versioned, tested, reusable
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6. Reusable API
Web, CLI, Scripts, REST
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7. Framework for realtime
automation
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8. Marionette Collective
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9. Ruby based framework
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10. Flexible and Pluggable for
local needs
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11. Parallel execution using
RPC over Middleware
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12. Puppet Aware
Resource Discovery
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13. Registration and Reporting
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14. Authorisation,
Authentication and
Auditing
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15. DEMO
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16. I, [04:36:02.436163] Looking for machines to provision
I, [04:36:09.453712] Looking for machines to provision
I, [04:36:13.449071] Provisioning ip-10-226-226-8.eu-west-1.compute.internal / 10.226.226.8
I, [04:36:17.074982] Picking mstr1.xx.com for puppetmaster based on country == ie
I, [04:36:17.075097] Provisioning node against mstr1.xx.com
I, [04:36:17.075178] Calling set_puppet_host with ip x.x.134.90
I, [04:36:17.155862] Clean certificate ip-10-226-226-8.eu-west-1.compute.internal
I, [04:36:17.163558] Calling request_certificate
I, [04:36:20.817457] Signing certificate ip-10-226-226-8.eu-west-1.compute.internal
I, [04:36:21.645785] Calling bootstrap_puppet
I, [04:36:25.628705] Calling run_puppet
I, [04:36:38.796854] Notifying xmpp://ripienaar@jabber.org of new node
I, [04:36:43.811434] Looking for machines to provision
I, [04:36:50.831262] Looking for machines to provision
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17. Feature: Update the production systems
Background:
Given the load balancer has ip address 192.168.1.1
And I want to update hosts with class roles::dev_server
And I want to update hosts with fact country=de
And I want to pre-discover how many hosts to update
Scenario: Update the website
When I block the load balancer
Then traffic from the load balancer should be blocked
When I update the package mywebapp
Then the package version for mywebapp should be 4.2.6-3.el5
When I unblock the load balancer
Then traffic from the load balancer should be unblocked
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18. Feature: Monitor the capacity of the Puppet Master
Background:
Given we know we can run 10 concurrent Puppet clients
And the Puppet Master load average should be below 2
Scenario: Monitor the Puppet Master capacity
When there are more than usual Puppet clients running
Then the Puppet Master should have an acceptable load average
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19. Puppet Labs / MCollective
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20. Questions?
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