Super Sunday | WebLogic Hackathon

Introduction to Puppet & Chef

Simon Haslam & Ronald van Luttikhuizen
December 1st | UKOUG Tech 2013

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Agenda

Configuration management
● Intro, How it was & How it can be
Real world case
Puppet
Chef
Intro to the Hands-on-Labs

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Configuration management | introduction
• Automated installations and rollbacks
Application Deployment • Inject environment variables, smoke-testing

• Automated builds, tests, and packaging from version control

Application Building & Packaging • Central archiving in (artifact) repository

• Automated provisioning of middleware

Server & Middleware Provisioning • High frequency of changes to images (e.g. patches)

• Automated provisioning of OS-ready images

Machine Provisioning • Low frequency of changes to images

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Configuration management | the traditional way

Artisan server crafting

Boring
Stressful
Error-prone
Time-consuming
Non-scalable & expensive

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Configuration management | how it can be

Automated configuration
management
Describe a system once, apply as often
as you want
Automate the repetitive
Focus on improvements and “real”
problems as admin
Predictable results
(Near) real-time provisioning

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Configuration management | how it can be

Infrastructure as code & DevOps

Eliminate tedious and repetitive work
Configurations are defined in a machine- and OS-independent domain
language so the manifests are portable and can be reused
Keep servers in sync and know what is running on what server
Configuration can be used as documentation: since configuration is
applied by the documentation is always up-to-date
Configuration can be version controlled and managed the same way you
manage other code

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WLS, OSB, SOA Suite Database Server
YUM + Packages / JVM /
Ulimits / Kernel / User /
Operating System 40
Group / Directories Operating system 40

WebLogic 13
WebLogic / BSU / Database
30
NodeManager software

OSB 8 OSB / OPatch Database

5
creation

SOA Suite 10 SOA Suite / OPatch

SOA Suite
8
Repository
Domain creation 10 Create Domain

Initial Domain
Logs / Security / JMS /
40 WebApps / DataSources /
setup X Total actions
Resource Adapters
Source: Roll Out a Complete Oracle Fusion Middleware Env in Less than 10min by Edwin Biemond 7 | 28
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Automation

Automating repetitive steps is nothing new

● OS tools (jumpstart, kickstart, shell scripts, etc., etc.)
But…
● provisioning more environments than ever (cloudy)
● very complex multi-tier environments
New breed tools to standardise such a process
● platform-agnostic
● centralised
● fashionable

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Puppet

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Puppet Example | Apache HTTP Server
package { "httpd":
Manifests name => "httpd.x86_64",
ensure => "present",
Resources }

● Name file { "http.conf":

path => "/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf",
● Attributes and owner => root,
values group => root,
mode => 0644,
Ordering and source => "puppet:///modules/apache/httpd.conf",
require => Package["httpd"],
dependencies }
service { "httpd":
ensure => running,
enable => true,
subscribe => File["http.conf"],
}

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More on Puppet | building blocks
if $operatingsystem == 'CentOS'
Manifests node 'www1.example.com' {
Variables and (custom) facts include common
include apache
Node declarations }
node 'db1.example.com' {
Classes and Modules include common
include mysql
Defined resource types }
Templates
file { "http.conf":
Console path => "/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf",
owner => 'root',
group => 'root',
mode => '0644',
content => template('config/httpd.erb'),
}

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More on Puppet | console

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More on Puppet | products, price, etc.
Enterprise vs. Open Source
Puppet Forge
Market presence
Pricing (27-nov-2013)

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More on Puppet | runtime

Versus

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If you want to know more about Puppet …

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Chef

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Chef architecture

Central
Chef Server

Multiple
Administrators

One
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Repository
Chef| terminology
Node, Server, Workstation
Chef-client asks Chef-server about the policy for the node
Resources: a component and the desired state
Recipes: describe resources and desired state
Cookbooks: sets of recipes grouped together, also includes templates
and source files etc
Run List: recipes from cookbooks you want to run
Role: type of node

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 Example Recipe

paca
Template
specifies the
Policy says contents
package required
should be
installed
This service
should be
enabled on
reboot, and
must be
running
Source: Chef Fundamentals Webinar 1 #LEARNCHEF 19 | 28
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 I couldn’t find a screenshot of
enterprise one!

Open Source Chef Console

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Configuration Drift
Not just used for initial installation
Chef’s policies means it knows desired state
Chef client runs periodically on node & checks state against policy

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Chef in the wild
Enterprise vs. Open Source
Community & Popularity
Pricing (30-nov-2013)

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More about Chef

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Labs & Competition

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Lab| intro
Teams of 3
Choose your poison
Setup & preparation
Hello World
Provision JDK 7
Provision WLS 12c

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 dashboard Browser
Lab controller

provisioning

provisioning
JDK 7 WLS 12c

VM

provisioning

provisioning
provisioning

provisioning
agent agent

JDK 7 WLS 12c JDK 7 WLS 12c

VM VM

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Lab| eternal glory
Best Puppet team !!!
Best Chef team !!!
Best overall team !!!

Prize: Short interview with OTN @ 17.30

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Thank you!
Ronald van Luttikhuizen
[email protected]

Simon Haslam
[email protected]

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