The document discusses virtualization, automation, and Puppet. It begins with an introduction to virtualization and hands-on labs. It then covers automation through kickstart files and preseeding to automate operating system installation. Hands-on labs are also provided for automation. Finally, it discusses Puppet for configuration management, including node definitions, modules, and resources to manipulate files, packages, users and more. Hands-on labs are presented for implementing SFX configuration with Puppet.

2. Introduction 2
• Virtualization
– What is it?
– Hands-on lab
• Automation
– How do you mean?
– Hands-on lab
• Puppet
– Manipulating
– Hands-on lab
• Questions?

3. Virtualization: What is it? 3
• Stand alone server
– Host & Guest
• Dedicated Server
– Guest => Virtual Machine
– Host => Actual machine
• Benefits
– Less physical machines
– Easy to move

4. Virtualization: What is it? 4
• Virtualization today:
– VMware -> vsphere
– Microsoft -> Hyper-V
– Redhat -> RHEV
– VMware player http://www.vmware.com/products/player/
– VMware esxi http://www.vmware.com/products/vsphere-hypervisor/overview.html
– VirtualBox http://www.virtualbox.org/
– KVM http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/Main_Page
– Xen http://www.xen.org/

5. Virtualization: Hands-on lab 5

6. Virtualization: Hands-on lab 6

7. Virtualization: Hands-on lab 7

8. Virtualization: Hands-on lab 8

9. Virtualization: Hands-on lab 9

10. Virtualization: Hands-on lab 10

11. Virtualization: Hands-on lab 11

12. Automation: How do you mean? 12
• Installing OS
– > insert disc, choose options, configure root, etc…
– > Login, create users, configure server
–>…
• Automation = install steps written in file
– Kickstart
– Preseed

13. Automation: How do you mean? 13
• Creating kickstart file
– Set language, keyboard, timezone, root password, network, …
lang en_US
langsupport en_US.UTF-8
keyboard us
timezone --utc Europe/Brussels
rootpw ***
text
skipx
install
cdrom
zerombr
bootloader --location=mbr
network --bootproto=dhcp
key XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
• Hard disc formating
clearpart --all --initlabel
part /boot --fstype ext3 --size=150 --ondisk=sda
part / --fstype=ext3 --size=1024 --ondisk=sda
part swap --size=7644 --ondisk=sda
part pv.6 --size=0 --grow --ondisk=sda
volgroup vg00 --pesize=32768 pv.6
logvol /var/log --fstype ext3 --name=varlog --vgname=vg00 --size=2048

14. Automation: How do you mean? 14
• Hard disc
– Additional partition exlibris (35GB)
clearpart --all --initlabel
part /boot --fstype ext3 --size=150 --ondisk=sda
part / --fstype=ext3 --size=1024 --ondisk=sda
part swap --size=4096 --ondisk=sda
part pv.6 --size=0 --grow --ondisk=sda
volgroup vg00 --pesize=32768 pv.6
logvol /var/log --fstype ext3 --name=varlog --vgname=vg00 --size=2048
logvol /var --fstype ext3 --name=var --vgname=vg00 --size=1536
logvol /tmp --fstype ext3 --name=tmp --vgname=vg00 --size=5120
logvol /opt --fstype ext3 --name=opt --vgname=vg00 --size=1024
logvol /usr --fstype ext3 --name=usr --vgname=vg00 --size=4096
logvol /home --fstype ext3 --name=home --vgname=vg00 --size=512
logvol /exlibris --fstype ext3 --name=exlibris --vgname=vg00 --size=35840
• End script
auth --useshadow --enablemd5
selinux --disabled
firewall --enabled --ssh
firstboot --disabled
reboot --eject

15. Automation: How do you mean? 15
• Add packages
repo --name=epel --baseurl=http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/5/x86_64/
%packages
@core
epel-release-5-4
screen
ruby
puppet
• Post
– Define hostname, register with RedHat, set puppetmaster
%post --log=/root/postinstall.log
# set hostname to the dns one
IP=`ifconfig eth0 | grep "addr:" | cut -d':' -f2 | cut -d' ' -f1`
HOSTNAME=`nslookup $IP | grep "name =" | cut -d'=' -f2 | sed
's/.(.*)./1/'`
SHORTHOSTNAME=`nslookup $IP | grep "name =" | cut -d'=' -f2 | sed
's/.(.*)./1/' | cut -d'.' -f1`
# replace the hostname in the network configuration
grep -v "HOSTNAME" /etc/sysconfig/network > /tmp/network
echo "HOSTNAME=${HOSTNAME}" >> /tmp/network
cp /tmp/network /etc/sysconfig/network
echo "${IP} ${HOSTNAME} ${SHORTHOSTNAME}" >> /etc/hosts
rhnreg_ks --profilename=${HOSTNAME} --activationkey=XXXXXXXXXXXXX

16. Automation: How do you mean? 16
• Users and SSH
– Add user, disable root-ssh-login, config port ssh, update system
# Create user install
useradd --uid 900 install
# Set passwd for user install
echo "***" | passwd --stdin install
# Disable ssh rootlogin
sed -e 's/^#PermitRootLoginsyes$/PermitRootLogin no/' <
/etc/ssh/sshd_config > /tmp/sshd_config
# Use port 22000 as default
sed -e 's/^#Ports22$/Port 22000/' < /tmp/sshd_config >
/tmp/sshd_config2
mv /tmp/sshd_config2 /etc/ssh/sshd_config
rm /tmp/sshd_config
# Open non default port 22000 for ssh
sed -e 's/--dports22/--dport 22000/' < /etc/sysconfig/iptables >
/tmp/iptables
mv /tmp/iptables /etc/sysconfig/iptables
/usr/bin/yum clean all
/usr/bin/yum -y update
/usr/bin/yum clean all

17. Automation: Hands-on lab 17
• Try to create SFX-installation - Packages
/usr/bin/yum -y install glibc unixODBC unixODBC-devel e2fsprogs-libs
expat libxml2 zlib libxslt libgcrypt libgpg-error krb5-libs keyutils-libs
libselinux libsepol gmp pcre libaio gdbm libstdc++ ncurses bzip2-libs
/usr/bin/yum clean all
#Disable selinux
echo 0 > /selinux/enforce
#stop iptables
/etc/init.d/iptables stop
#disable iptables
/sbin/chkconfig --level 2345 iptables off
– Sfx-installer can extract only
• ./sfx_version_4_linux64_installer.run --confirm
– Sfx-installer can run without disclaimer
• ./starter.sh nodisclaimer

18. Automation: Hands-on lab 18
• Sfx-installer can extract only
• Sfx-installer can run without disclaimer

19. Automation: Hands-on lab 19
• Sfx-installer can use auto answer-file
– Sfx-installer can extract only
– Sfx-installer can run without disclaimer

20. Automation: Hands-on lab 20
• How to do this?
mkdir -m777 /exlibris/ftp_from_exlibris
cd /exlibris/ftp_from_exlibris
wget 'http://sartre.ugent.be/bt/sfx_version_4_linux64_installer.run‘
chmod a+x sfx_version_4_linux64_installer.run
/bin/echo “LICENSE-SFXGLB41" > license.txt
/bin/echo “LICENSE-SFXLCL41" >> license.txt
/bin/echo “LICENSE-SFXTST41" >> license.txt
# extract sfx_installer
echo "y" > answer.txt
echo "n" >> answer.txt
./sfx_version_4_linux64_installer.run --confirm < answer.txt
#start installer
cd build
echo "y" > answer.txt
echo "3410" >> answer.txt
echo "n" >> answer.txt
./starter.sh nodisclaimer < answer.txt
# Set passwd for users sfx
echo "***" | passwd --stdin sfxglb41
echo "***" | passwd --stdin sfxlcl41
echo "***" | passwd --stdin sfxtst41

21. Automation: Hands-on lab 21
• Finishing script
# Add port 80 for browsing
sed -e 's/^Listens3410$/Listen 80nListen 3410/' <
/exlibris/sfx_ver/sfx4_1/proxy/conf/httpd.conf > /tmp/httpproxy.conf
mv /tmp/httpproxy.conf /exlibris/sfx_ver/sfx4_1/proxy/conf/httpd.conf
# Open the port in the firewall
sed '/23000/i-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -m state --state NEW -m tcp -p tcp --
dport 80 -j ACCEPT' < /etc/sysconfig/iptables > /tmp/iptables
sed '/23000/i-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -m state --state NEW -m tcp -p tcp --
dport 3410 -j ACCEPT' < /tmp/iptables > /etc/sysconfig/iptables
#Enable back iptables
/sbin/chkconfig --level 2345 iptables on

22. Automation: Hands-on lab 22

23. Automation: Hands-on lab 23

24. Virtualization: Hands-on lab 24

25. Puppet: Manipulating 25
• Automation software
• DSL Language written in Ruby
• Client / server oriented
• Repeatable processes
• Abstraction layers

26. Puppet: Manipulating 26
• Abstraction layers?
– Package managers | User management | Services
Apt, dpkg, yum, rpm, pkg, … | useradd, adduser, dscl, …

27. Puppet: Manipulating 27
• Server structure
‒ puppet/
‒ manifests/
‒ environments /
‒ production /
‒ modules /
‒ [a-z][a-z0-9_]* /
‒ files /
‒ manifests /
‒ init.pp
‒ templates /
‒ tests /
‒ manifests /
‒ nodes.pp
‒ development /

28. Puppet: Manipulating 28
• Nodes.pp
node HOSTNAME {
include apache;
class {
'ntp':
enable => false;
}
apache::vhost {
'personal_site':
port => 80,
docroot => '/var/www/personal',
options => 'Indexes MultiViews‘;
}
}
• Module
– [a-z][a-z0-9_]* (except main, settings)

29. Puppet: Manipulating 29
‒modules /
• init.pp ‒[a-z][a-z0-9_]* /
‒files /
– Class-name same as module ‒service.conf
‒manifests /
‒init.pp
• otherclass.pp ‒otherclass.pp
‒templates /
– my_module::otherclass ‒template.erb
‒tests /
• files/service.conf
– puppet:///modules/my_module/service.conf
• templates/template.erb
– template('my_module/template.erb')

30. Puppet: Manipulating 30
• Built-in resources:
– file
file { ‘/exlibris’:
ensure => directory,
mode => 777,
group => exlibris;
}
file {‘/exlibris/ftp_from_exlibris/build/answer.txt’:
ensure => present,
content => "yn3410nn",
require => Exec["extract_sfx"];
}
file {
‘/exlibris’:
ensure => directory,
mode => 777,
group => exlibris;
‘/exlibris/ftp_from_exlibris/build/answer.txt’:
ensure => present,
content => "yn3410nn",
require => Exec["extract_sfx"];
}

31. Puppet: Manipulating 31
– package
package {
‘glibc’:
ensure => ‘installed’;
‘unixODBC’:
ensure => ‘installed’;
‘unixODBC-devel’
ensure => ‘latest’;
‘gdbm.i686’:
ensure => ‘2.2.16-6’;
}
Package { ensure => ‘installed’ }
$package2install = [ ‘glibc’, ‘unixODBC’, ‘unixODBC-devel’, ‘gdbm.i686’ ]
package { $package2install: }
– exec
exec {
‘download_installer’:
command => ‘./sfx_version_4_linux64_installer.run --confirm < answer.txt’,
cwd => ‘/exlibris/ftp_from_exlibris’,
creates => ‘/exlibris/ftp_from_exlibris/build’,
require => File[‘/exlibris/ftp_from_exlibris’];
}

32. Puppet: Manipulating 32
– user & group
user { ‘ca20c800’:
ensure => ‘present’, group { ‘ca20c800’:
comment => ‘Comment for user’, ensure => ‘present’,
uid => ‘600’, gid => ‘600’;
gid => ‘600’, }
membership => minimum,
shell => ‘/bin/bash’,
home => ‘/home/$title",
require => Group[$title],
password => ‘***’;
}
– ± 40 different resource types
• cron
• mount
• yumrepo

33. Puppet: Hands-on lab 33
• Sfx & puppet
class sfx {
Package { ensure => "installed"}
$package2install = [ "glibc", "unixODBC-devel", "e2fsprogs-
libs", "unixODBC", "expat", "libxml2", "zlib", "libxslt", "libgcrypt", "libgpg-
error", "krb5-libs", "keyutils-
libs", "libselinux", "libsepol", "gmp", "pcre.i686", "pcre.x86_64", "libaio", "
gdbm.i686", "gdbm.x86_64", "libstdc++", "ncurses", "bzip2-libs.i686", "bzip2-
libs.x86_64" ]
package { $package2install: }
concat::fragment { "/etc/sysconfig/iptables.sfx.server":
target => "/etc/sysconfig/iptables",
source => 'puppet:///modules/sfx/iptables.server',
order => 200,
}

34. Puppet: Hands-on lab 34
• Sfx & puppet
file {
‘/exlibris’:
ensure => directory,
group => exlibris;
‘/exlibris/ftp_from_exlibris’:
ensure => directory,
group => exlibris,
mode => 777,
require => File[‘/exlibris’];
‘/exlibris/ftp_from_exlibris/answer.txt’:
ensure => present,
content => ‘ynn’,
‘/exlibris/ftp_from_exlibris/build/answer.txt’:
ensure => present,
content => ‘yn3410nn’,
require => Exec[‘extract_sfx"];
}

35. Puppet: Hands-on lab 35
• Sfx & puppet
exec {
"download_installer":
command => "/usr/bin/wget
http://sartre.ugent.be/bt/sfx_version_4_linux64_installer.run -O
sfx_version_4_linux64_installer.run;
/bin/chmod a+x sfx_version_4_linux64_installer.run",
cwd => "/exlibris/ftp_from_exlibris",
creates => "/exlibris/ftp_from_exlibris/sfx_version_4_linux64_installer.run",
require => File["/exlibris/ftp_from_exlibris"];
"get_license":
command => "/usr/bin/wget
http://lib.ugent.be/files/elag2012/${hostname}.license -O license.txt",
cwd => "/exlibris/ftp_from_exlibris",
creates => "/exlibris/ftp_from_exlibris/license.txt",
require => File["/exlibris/ftp_from_exlibris"];
"extract_sfx":
command => "./sfx_version_4_linux64_installer.run --confirm < answer.txt",
cwd => "/exlibris/ftp_from_exlibris",
creates => "/exlibris/ftp_from_exlibris/build",
require => File["/exlibris/ftp_from_exlibris/answer.txt"];
"installing_sfx":
command => "/etc/init.d/iptables stop; /sbin/chkconfig --level 2345 iptables
off; ./starter.sh nodisclaimer < answer.txt",
cwd => "/exlibris/ftp_from_exlibris/build",
creates => "/exlibris/sfx_ver",
timeout => "1800",
require => File["/exlibris/ftp_from_exlibris/build/answer.txt"]; }

36. Puppet: Hands-on lab 36
• Server node
node 'ca20c802' {
class {
'basenode':;
'vmware::tools':;
'selinux::disable':;
'exlibris':;
'sfx':;
'icinga':
nrpe_allowed_hosts => ‘x.x.x.x';
'icinga::plugins::checksfx':
perfdata => true;
}
}

37. Puppet: Hands-on lab 37
• Sfx-class
class exlibris {
realize User_create[exlibris]
realize User_create[ca20c801]
realize User_create[ca20c802]
realize User_create[ca20c803]
realize User_create[ca20c804]
concat::fragment { "/etc/sysconfig/iptables.exlibris.server":
target => "/etc/sysconfig/iptables",
source => 'puppet:///modules/exlibris/iptables.server',
order => 150,
}
}

38. Questions? 38
• Questions?
http://www.vmware.com
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda/Kickstart
http://www.puppetlabs.com
 Omar.Reygaert@UGent.be