Razor & Puppet: The Perfect Marriage?
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The document discusses the integration of Razor, a software tool for rapid provisioning of operating systems and hypervisors, with Puppet, highlighting their collaborative development under Puppet Labs. It details key features of Razor including event-driven architecture, powerful discovery, and easy integration with DevOps tools. The document also outlines the Razor workflow and future roadmap for improvements and scalability.
Razor & Puppet: The Perfect Marriage?
- 1. Razor and Puppet: The perfect marriage ? Puppetcamp Ghent – February, 1 – 2013 Johan De Wit – Linux & Open Source Consultant Bert Deferme – Linux & Open Source Consultant Razor and Puppet: The perfect marriage?
- 3. What is Razor? Razor = A softwaretool for rapid provisioning of: ● Operating System(s) ● Hypervisor(s) On both physical and virtual servers. Razor and Puppet: The perfect marriage?
- 4. A bit of Razor history ● Originally developed by EMC Razor and Puppet: The perfect marriage?
- 5. A bit of Razor history ● Originally developed by EMC ● Developed with these key features in mind: Razor and Puppet: The perfect marriage?
- 6. A bit of Razor history ● Originally developed by EMC ● Developed with these key features in mind: ● Adding a new OS or Hypervisor should be simple Razor and Puppet: The perfect marriage?
- 7. A bit of Razor history ● Originally developed by EMC ● Developed with these key features in mind: ● Adding a new OS or Hypervisor should be simple ● Must be eventdriven Razor and Puppet: The perfect marriage?
- 8. A bit of Razor history ● Originally developed by EMC ● Developed with these key features in mind: ● Adding a new OS or Hypervisor should be simple ● Must be eventdriven ● Should have powerful discovery Razor and Puppet: The perfect marriage?
- 9. A bit of Razor history ● Originally developed by EMC ● Developed with these key features in mind: ● Adding a new OS or Hypervisor should be simple ● Must be eventdriven ● Should have powerful discovery ● It should scale well Razor and Puppet: The perfect marriage?
- 10. A bit of Razor history ● Originally developed by EMC ● Developed with these key features in mind: ● Adding a new OS or Hypervisor should be simple ● Must be eventdriven ● Should have powerful discovery ● It should scale well ● It should focus on the task at hand, not try to do everything. Razor and Puppet: The perfect marriage?
- 11. A bit of Razor history ● Originally developed by EMC ● Developed with these key features in mind: ● Adding a new OS or Hypervisor should be simple ● Must be eventdriven ● Should have powerful discovery ● It should scale well ● It should focus on the task at hand, not try to do everything. ● It should easily integrate with #devops tools Razor and Puppet: The perfect marriage?
- 12. A bit of Razor history ● Originally developed by EMC ● Developed with these key features in mind: ● Adding a new OS or Hypervisor should be simple ● Must be eventdriven ● Should have powerful discovery ● It should scale well ● It should focus on the task at hand, not try to do everything. ● It should easily integrate with #devops tools ● The control structure must support REST Razor and Puppet: The perfect marriage?
- 13. A bit of Razor history ● Now: Collaboration with Puppetlabs ● → Released via the Puppet Forge ● → Under the Apache License Razor and Puppet: The perfect marriage?
- 14. What is Razor? Razor consists of two major components: ● The Razor Server (Ruby, MongoDB, Node.js) ● The Razor Microkernel (~20MB Linux Kernel, Facter, MCollective) Razor and Puppet: The perfect marriage?
- 15. What is Razor? Razor provides: ● Autodiscovered realtime inventory data Razor and Puppet: The perfect marriage?
- 16. What is Razor? Razor provides: ● Autodiscovered realtime inventory data ● Dynamic image selection Razor and Puppet: The perfect marriage?
- 17. What is Razor? Razor provides: ● Autodiscovered realtime inventory data ● Dynamic image selection ● Modelbased provisioning Razor and Puppet: The perfect marriage?
- 18. What is Razor? Razor provides: ● Autodiscovered realtime inventory data ● Dynamic image selection ● Modelbased provisioning ● Open APIs and plugin architecture Razor and Puppet: The perfect marriage?
- 19. What is Razor? Razor provides: ● Autodiscovered realtime inventory data ● Dynamic image selection ● Modelbased provisioning ● Open APIs and plugin architecture ● “MetaltoCloud” application lifecycle management Razor and Puppet: The perfect marriage?
- 20. Razor DEMO RAZOR WORKFLOW IN SHORT: ● Discovery (Tags, Matcher Rules) ● Models (Defining OS Templates, ...) ● Policies (Rules that apply Models to Nodes based on Discovery) ● Broker (Configuration Management) Razor and Puppet: The perfect marriage?
- 21. Razor DEMO DISCOVERY ● PXE boot ● Microkernel ● Facter ● Communication Razor and Puppet: The perfect marriage?
- 22. Razor DEMO MODELS ● Operating System templates CentOS/RHEL6 – Ubuntu Precise/Oneric – openSUSE – Debian VMWare ESXi 5 ● Kickstart / preseed / ... ● Variables (Hostname, domainname, password, ...) Razor and Puppet: The perfect marriage?
- 23. Razor DEMO TAGS and MATCHER RULES ● Use existing default tags ● Possibility to create custom tags using “Matcher Rules) Razor and Puppet: The perfect marriage?
- 24. Razor DEMO DEFINING A POLICY ● Like a firewallrule (behaves alike) ● Apply a certain model based on certain (custom) tags Razor and Puppet: The perfect marriage?
- 25. Razor DEMO ENABLE A POLICY (AUTODEPLOY) / DELIVERY TO “BROKER” ● Wait for server(s) to be installed ● Drink coffee :) ● When deployed, node gets delivered to the “Broker” (Chef,puppet,...) for future management. Razor and Puppet: The perfect marriage?
- 26. Razor in the future Shortterm roadmap: ● Real OS Packages (End of Feb) ● Improve postgresql data store support ● Resolve scaling problems when under heavy load ● RELIABILITY Razor and Puppet: The perfect marriage?
- 27. Razor in the future Longterm roadmap: ● Support for custom facts ● Easier integration of new models ● Better broker implementation Razor and Puppet: The perfect marriage?
- 28. More information... Razor: ● https://github.com/puppetlabs/Razor OpenFuture: ● http://www.openfuture.be ● http://twitter.com/Openfuture_be ● Commercial contact: Ann Vanderheyden – ann@openfuture.be ● Technical contact: technical@openfuture.be OpenFuture is always hiring... Razor and Puppet: The perfect marriage?