RackHD Hands On Introduction

A Hands-On introduction to the RackHD open-source project for Hardware Management and Orchestration

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   RACKHD
   HANDS ON INTRODUCTION – JAN 2016
   

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   •  Hardware Management and Orchestration
   •  Open Sourced by EMC Dec 2015
   •  Screencast Overview
   –  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCiXtROSt8U
   HTTPS://GITHUB.COM/RACKHD/RACKHD
   HTTP://RACKHD.READTHEDOCS.ORG/
   

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   •  Vendor Agnostic
   •  Discovery, Cataloging, Telemetry
   •  Hardware Configuration capabilities
   •  Automation of the lowest layer most stacks
   –  Provisioning
   –  Configuration
   –  Metrics and Events
   VISION
   

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   •  Stepping beyond
   existing provisioning
   systems
   –  Declarative Workflow
   engine
   –  Working closely with PXE
   capabilities
   –  Built to be a component
   in a larger stack up
   •  REST API
   •  Telemetry/Data Feeds
   •  It’s not a scheduler or
   reactive system
   •  Minimal knowledge
   layers above hardware
   WHAT IT IS AND ISN’T
   

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   •  iPXE oriented bootloader
   •  SKU identification based on rules
   •  PXE based compute server discovery
   process
   •  Free-format data catalogs
   •  Integral monitoring/telemetry with
   Out of band management
   •  Multiple Out-of-band management
   capabilities (via plugin)
   •  Remote discovery and telemetry
   support for PDU and switches
   •  Compute server telemetry available
   via IPMI and SNMP
   •  Live structured data feeds with
   Websockets or AMQP
   •  Declarative Workflows
   •  Composed of tasks – in serial or
   parallel – acyclic graphs
   •  Custom images easily included and
   used in workflows
   •  Leverage templates and profiles
   (dynamic file & ipxe scripts based on
   workflow data)
   CURRENT CAPABILITIES
   

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   •  SKU packs
   –  Load templates, profiles,
   microkernels, and sku
   definitions for specific hardware
   or OS personalities
   •  V2 API
   –  More solid schema definition,
   swagger based
   •  Fault tolerant workflow
   processing
   •  Hardware connection
   topology
   •  Additional south-bound
   discovery protocols
   –  Adding Redfish 1.0 support to
   IPMI and SNMP
   •  Additional workflow
   capabilities
   –  Secure Erase
   –  In-band management tasks
   –  Enhanced workflow
   programmability
   UPCOMING CAPABILITIES
   

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   Roadmaps/Specs
   •  https://github.com/RackHD/specs
   Cross Team Dashboard
   •  http://heckj.github.io/ptclientside/
   Public Forums/Mailing List
   •  https://groups.google.com/d/forum/rackhd
   •  rackhd+subscribe@googlegroups.com
   Dedicated Dev Teams
   •  Gripen
   –  https://www.pivotaltracker.com/n/
   projects/1492890
   •  Maglev
   –  https://www.pivotaltracker.com/n/
   projects/1492892
   •  Monorail
   –  https://www.pivotaltracker.com/n/
   projects/1492888
   •  Stryker
   –  https://www.pivotaltracker.com/n/
   projects/1496834
   PUBLIC DEVELOPMENT
   

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   Instructions
   •  https://github.com/RackHD/RackHD/
   tree/master/example
   Pre-requisites
   •  Install vagrant & virtualbox
   git clone https://github.com/RackHD/RackHD
   cd RackHD/example
   cp config/monorail_rack.cfg.example config/
   monorail_rack.cfg
   bin/monorail_rack
   …
   open http://localhost:9090/docs
   SANDBOX DEMO / HANDS ON
   

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