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Puppet @ snowflake
Zurich Puppet Meetup, 07.07.2015
Andri Steiner
July 07, 2015
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ZÜRICH PUPPET MEETUP JULY WELCOME @ SNOWFLAKE
SNOWFLAKE Web agency "PREMIUM OPEN SOURCE" Zurich, Bern, Lucerne founded
and still owned by 3 lads, ~50 employees Development Teams: CMS, eCommerce, Applications multiple staff sections, amongst others: Hosting
INFRASTRUCTURE Racks hired in two different datacenters DWDM between those
locations and Zurich office VPN to other offices RIPE LIR (AS198249), SwissIX
HARDWARE Nutanix : "Invisible Infrastructure for Enterprise Computing" Package of
software, management, hardware SDx, especially storage, multi tier caching Network: Arista based, redundant, active/active Layer 2 & 3
with all platform aspects covered, we can solely focus on
our virtual servers
GOALS top performance small footprint (mail daemon, logging, ...) automate
everything, no local modifications 1 click configuration trough API
GOALS: PUPPET separate code (Modules) and configuration (Hiera) Puppet Forge
usage (nginx, mysql, php, ...) wrapper modules whenever possible no manual interaction at all (DNS, Backup, Monitoring, Firewall, Billing, ...)
WHAT WE DID development started in April 2014 128 Pull
requests merged 1560 Commits 37'409 lines Puppet manifests 16'620 lines templates documentation: , CC BY-SA https://snowflakehosting.ch/
ARCHITECTURE server trough Nutanix API (puppet-nutanix pending) configuration from Hiera
Backend service (= wrapper module) added to server (Website, Database, Caching, ...) service has options (name, type, env, ...) website types: typo3cms, magento, uwsgi, .. environments: DEV, STAGE, PROD database types: mysql, postgres caching types: memcached, varnish
EXAMPLE service: website, type: typo3cms
HIERA BACKEND by now: YAML files in GIT w e
b s i t e : : s i t e s : " s t v h o c h d o r f " : " p a s s w o r d " : " 1 2 3 4 " " s e r v e r _ n a m e " : " s t v h o c h d o r f . c h " " e n v " : " L I V E " " h t p a s s w d " : " 4 3 2 1 " " t y p e " : " t y p o 3 c m s "
HIERA BACKEND under development: REST API, Angular frontend
NEXT STEPS finishing REST API puppet-nutanix module publish whole stack
under a open source license spread the word and find more interested parties who are interested in using and enhancing this setup
THANK YOU https://www.snowflake.ch/jobs https://twitter.com/andristeiner https://speakerdeck.com/andristeiner FEEDBACK WELCOME ☺