The document discusses using Puppet and Razor together for automated operating system and application deployment. Razor is a provisioning tool that can deploy both operating systems and hypervisors to physical and virtual machines. It uses auto-discovered hardware inventory data and model-based provisioning to select the correct OS image and automate the provisioning process. Puppet can be integrated with Razor through its open APIs and plug-ins to enable full lifecycle management from metal to cloud. The document provides examples of using Puppet to install and configure Razor, define images, models, policies and deploy Ubuntu images.

1. Automated OS & App
Deployment
Using Puppet and Razor
Jonas Rosland
Software-Defined Specialist
@virtualswede
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3. So what’s Razor?
Cloud provisioning tool
Operating Systems AND Hypervisors
Physical AND virtual
Event-driven instead of user-driven
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4. Why not just use templates?
They get old fast
Pre-packages bits are harder to maintain
No easy upgrade to next distro version
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5. So how does it work?
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6. Auto-Discovered Real-Time Inventory
Data
Boots a Micro-Kernel
Primarily using facter
For every hardware node
Eliminating inefficient, error-prone manual
processes
Full insight into the latest, up-to-date status
of your hardware inventory
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7. Dynamic Image Selection
Selects the correct operating system image
Based on auto-discovered, real-time
inventory data
No manual intervention needed
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8. Model-Based Provisioning
Models the desired state of each hardware
node and its operating system
Automatically tracks provisioning progress
toward this state
Full control over a node’s boot sequence and
a complete log of its lifecycle
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9. Open APIs and Plug-in Architecture
RESTful open APIs
Full programmatic control of the rules and
models that govern operating system image
selection and hardware provisioning
Enables the Puppet community to collaborate
and share plug-ins to support any operating
system and any boot sequence
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10. Metal-to-Cloud Application Lifecycle
Management
No need for siloed management tools!
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11. Puppet + Razor = Good!
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12. Razor installation using Puppet
node razor {
class { 'sudo':
config_file_replace => false,
}
include razor
}
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13. Add a broker
rz_broker { 'puppet_broker':
ensure => present,
plugin => 'puppet',
metadata => {
broker_version => '2.7.18',
server => 'puppet.purevirtual.lab',
}
}
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14. Add an image to deploy
rz_image { "ubuntu_precise_image":
ensure => present,
type => 'os',
version => '12.04.1',
source =>
"http://ftp.sunet.se/pub/os/Linux/distributions/ubunt
u/ubuntu-cd/12.04.1/ubuntu-12.04.1-server-
amd64.iso",
}
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15. Add a model for deployment
rz_model { 'install_ubuntu_precise':
ensure => present,
description => 'Ubuntu Precise',
image => 'ubuntu_precise_image',
metadata => {'domainname' => 'purevirtual.lab',
'hostname_prefix' => 'ubuntu-', 'root_password' =>
'password'},
template => 'ubuntu_precise',
}
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16. Finally, create a policy to tie it all
together
rz_policy { 'ubuntu_precise_policy':
ensure => present,
broker => 'puppet_broker',
model => 'install_ubuntu_precise',
enabled => 'true',
tags => ['memsize_1GiB'],
template => 'linux_deploy',
maximum => 10,
}
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17. DEMOTIME!
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18. Wanna get started?
How to and best practices on my blog:
http://purevirtual.eu/category/automation/puppet/
http://purevirtual.eu/category/automation/razor/
Send me an email/tweet!
jonas.rosland@emc.com
@virtualswede
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