HostDB

“HostDB is a new open source CMDB that is custom built for automating your infrastructure.” HostDB: helps manage inventory and write applications around it.

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1. HostDB “HostDB is a new open source CMDB that is custom built for automating your infrastructure.” HostDB: helps manage inventory and write applications around it. https://github.com/Flipkart/ HostDB
2. • Details all existing hosts and stores information about a host • Ability to tag hosts according to purpose • Single source of truth • Highly Available and Reliable • Namespaces and Access controls • Rollbacks/Git as backend • Rest API for applications to interact
3. • Web Front end • Rest API • Command Line interface • Tags to create host groups • Yaml • Comparable with puppet
4. VM1 VM2 physical box hostDB API HostDB agent Monitoring service Node info Node classes agent agent Backup service agent DNS service RabbitMQ Unbound MySQL CouchBase create host entries Kloud agent Kloud create host get puppet info get host info write read Puppet server Node info Node classes agent VM