RackHD Hands On Introduction

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

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1. 1 © Copyright 2016 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. RACKHD HANDS ON INTRODUCTION – JAN 2016
2. 2 © Copyright 2016 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. •  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/
3. 3 © Copyright 2016 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. •  Vendor Agnostic •  Discovery, Cataloging, Telemetry •  Hardware Configuration capabilities •  Automation of the lowest layer most stacks –  Provisioning –  Configuration –  Metrics and Events VISION
4. 4 © Copyright 2016 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. •  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
5. 5 © Copyright 2016 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. •  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
6. 6 © Copyright 2016 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. •  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
7. 7 © Copyright 2016 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. 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
8. 8 © Copyright 2016 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. 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