Chef for OpenStack Austin OpenStack Meetup December 6, 2012 Matt Ray Senior Technical Evangelist Opscode
Sep 08, 2014
Chef for OpenStack
Austin OpenStack MeetupDecember 6, 2012
Matt RaySenior Technical EvangelistOpscode
What is Chef?
Recipes and Cookbooks that describe Infrastructure as Code.
Chef enables people to easily build & manage complex & dynamic applications at massive scale
• New model for describing infrastructure that promotes reuse
• Programmatically provision and configure
• Reconstruct business from code repository, data backup, and bare metal resources
Chef is an automation platform for developers & systems engineers to continuously define, build, and manage infrastructure.
CHEF USES:
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• Programmatically provision and configure
• Treat like any other code base
• Reconstruct business from code repository, data backup, and bare metal resources.
Chef is Infrastructure as Code
Blueprint Your Infrastructure
• Compute
• Application
• Storage
• Security
• Network
• Configuration Standards
How Can Chef Help?
Build Anything…
• Provision compute resources in the Data Center and the Cloud
• Infrastructure
• Application Stacks
• Big Data
• HPC
• Linux, Windows, OSX, Unixes
And Manage It Simply• Introduce continuous incremental
change or total change.
• Automatically reconfigure everything
• Re-provision for disaster recovery
• Fail-over to bare metal
• Monitor for compliance
• Cloud migrations become trivialUsing 1,000’s of man-days of prior art!
Discoverable and Searchable Infrastructure
• Apache License, Version 2.0
• 1000+ Individual contributors
• 180+ Corporate contributors
• Dell, HP, Rackspace, Calxeda, VMware, SUSE, and many more
• 700+ cookbooks
• Plugins for every cloud
• http://community.opscode.com
The Chef Community
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ResourcesChef for OpenStack
What's Out There?
Chef for OpenStack: Why
• Community for the automated deployment and management of OpenStack
• Reduce fragmentation and encourage collaboration
• Deploying OpenStack is not "secret sauce"
• Project not a product
• Apache 2 license
Chef for OpenStack: What
• Chef Repository for Deploying OpenStack
• Documentation for Chef for OpenStack
• Cookbooks• Keystone
• Glance
• Nova
• Horizon
• Swift
• Quantum
• Cinder
• Knife OpenStack
Chef for OpenStack: Where
• groups.google.com/group/opscode-chef-openstack
• #openstack-chef on irc.freenode.net
• github.com/opscode/openstack-chef-repo
• github.com/mattray/openstack-chef-docs
• github.com/opscode-cookbooks/
• keystone, glance, nova, horizon, swift,quantum,cinder
• github.com/opscode/knife-openstack
Chef for OpenStack: Who
• Chef repo for Essex
• Operating Systems (Ubuntu 12.04)
• Hypervisors (KVM, LXC)
• Databases (MySQL)
• FlatDHCP networking with floating IPs
• Test Kitchen
Chef for OpenStack: Today
Rackspace Private Cloud: Alamo
• Parallel fork of current cookbooks
• github.com/rcbops/chef-cookbooks
• www.rackspace.com/cloud/private/
Chef for OpenStack: When
• Folsom is under active development
• Rackspace, AT&T, DreamHost have active branches
• Quantum (Nicira, OVS)
• Cinder
• Hyper-V
• Red Hat
github.com/mattray/openstack-chef-docsmoving to
github.com/opscode/chef-docs
Chef for OpenStack: How
Deploying OpenStack
• Chef ties it all together automatically
• Scaling changes how we deploy
• Interchangeable components
• Configurations shared, supported & documented
• Licensing makes it available to everyone
knife openstack
knife openstack
$ knife openstackAvailable openstack subcommands: (for details, knife SUB-COMMAND --help)
** OPENSTACK COMMANDS **knife openstack flavor list (options)knife openstack image list (options)knife openstack server create (options)knife openstack server delete SERVER [SERVER] (options)knife openstack server list (options)
knife openstack flavor list
$ knife openstack flavor listID Name Virtual CPUs RAM Disk 1 m1.tiny 1 512 MB 0 GB 2 m1.small 1 2048 MB 10 GB3 m1.medium 2 4096 MB 10 GB4 m1.large 4 8192 MB 10 GB5 m1.xlarge 8 16384 MB 10 GB
knife openstack image list
$ knife openstack image listID Name 4a197431-503d-4b85-b61e-84af21ca8654 cirros-image f8ebb842-c0c0-4be3-8c4c-f72f48edec50 precise-image
knife openstack server create -a -f 1 -I f8ebb842-c0c0-4be3-8c4c-f72f48edec50\ -S local -i ~/.ssh/local.pem -x ubuntu
knife openstack server create
Chef for Infrastructure Portability
• knife openstack
• Piston, Nebula, Crowbar, TryStack
• knife hp
• knife rackspace
• knife ec2
• ... and many others
• Documentation (docs.opscode.com)
• Hypervisors (Hyper-V)
• Databases (PostgreSQL)
• Operating Systems (RHEL, Debian, SUSE)
• HA Configurations
• Quantum (pluggable)
• Cinder (pluggable)
• Community Events (Boston January 22)
Chef for OpenStack Roadmap
• Cookbooks reusable outside of OpenStack
• Test Kitchen
• Librarian
• Spiceweasel
• pxe_dust
• knife-rackspace/hp/dreamhost
• Sputnik Cloud Launcher
• Crowbar
Chef for OpenStack Ecosystem
Chef for OpenStack TL;DL
• Opscode.com/openstack
• Project, not a product
• Lots of contributors with real deployments
• Essex works, Folsom merging
• Features driven by demand (show up for what you want)
• Documentation with examples
AT&T
Questions?
Matt [email protected]|GitHub|IRC: mattray