The document outlines the use of Rancher and Docker with RightScale for managing containerized applications in a multi-cloud environment. It describes design goals, the DevOps process for building, testing, and deploying applications, and includes examples of Docker Compose files for test and production environments. Additionally, it provides tips for continuous integration and how to get started using Rancher with RightScale services.

1. Using Rancher and Docker with
RightScale at Industrie IT
Ameer Deen & Chris Fordham

2. Docker Please !
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3. Design Goals - Where We Wanted To Go
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4. Our Approach
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5. Cloud Broker (MultiCloud) Environments (dev, tst, stg, prod etc.)
Bare Metal Service Discovery
Server Provisioning (container hosts) Container scheduling/orchestration
Infrastructure Management (e.g. networking) Overlay Network (internal/private)
Autoscaling (container hosts) Load Balancing
Monitoring & Alerting Reverse proxy
Managed Server Login (SSH) TLS termination

6. RightScale manages the cloud
Rancher orchestrates services
Docker runs the containers on the ships
Industrie IT provides the stacked solution
+ your CI continuously integrates and deploys

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Build Environment
DevOps builds software in the container service
- DevOps teams create Build Environments
- Adds resources and Jenkins slaves
- Developer Pushes Code to Repo
- Jenkins creates build containers
- Build and Unit Tests run in build container
- Outputs Artifacts
- Jenkins creates Packaging container
- Push Docker Image to registry
- Build environments scale elastically
Build
Docker File
Packaging
Docker File
Test
Code
Build Docker
File
Develop Build Package Test Deploy/Upgrade Operate
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Test Environment
DevOps tests software in the container service
- Create Test Environments
- Upload Compose & Test files
- Build triggers Jenkins
- Jenkins triggers Rancher to deploy compose
- Rancher creates containers, networks,
storage, etc.
- Test container conducts integration tests
Develop Build Package Test Deploy/Upgrade Operate
Test docker-compose.yml
lb:
image: haproxy
links:
- web
tomcat:
image: app:buildn
links:
- db
- cache
cache:
image: memcache
db:
image: mysql:testn
Hosts
db
- mysql:testn
cache
- memcache
Lb
-haproxy
tomcat
-app:buildn
Test
Test
Compose Images
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Production Environment
Hosts
DevOps runs production in the container service
- Production Compose
- Rancher deploys
environment
- Update Scaling
- Health Checks & HA
- Upgrade
- Backup & Recovery
Develop Build Package Test Deploy/Upgrade Operate
docker-compose.yml
lb:
image: haproxy
links:
- web
tomcat:
image: app:buildn
links:
- db
- cache
cache:
image: memcache
db:
image: mysql
lb
tomcat
CacheMySQL
Health Check Interval: 2 sec
Timeout: 2 sec
Failure Retry Frequency: 3
Success Retry Frequency: 2
Recovery Delay: 30 sec
tomcat(build n+1)
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11. Continuous Integration/Delivery Tips
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● Dockerfile docker-compose.yml rancher-compose.yml
Makefile
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12. Getting Started

13. Getting Started - CMP
● Import direct from the Marketplace
● Spin up your Rancher Server
● Generate an API key pair for RightScale
○ Update inputs with the keys and Rancher server host
● Add Rancher Hosts using Servers or Server Arrays

14. Getting Started - Self Service
● CAT available from the RightScale Services
GitHub at http://bit.ly/1GJH4
● Simply download the CAT and upload it to
RightScale Self Service
● Features:
○ Supports AWS, Google (more to come)
○ Scale up to 10 hosts
○ Runs an initial application stack
(Wordpress or NGINX)
○ Ability to run additional application
stacks through self service
○ Usual scheduling features from self
service including cleanup on terminate

15. Rancher in action
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16. Coming Soon
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17. Thank you
consulting@industrieit.com