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 

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