Building up to Infrastructure as Code?

Explores the definition of Infrastructure as Code as build behind RackN Digital Rebar archtiecture.

Presented Sept 2019 at Cloud Austin.

Topics covered include: Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, IaaS, Terraform, Intent Driven Automation, Immutable Infrastructure

Live Presentation: https://youtu.be/oAUWKro093M

Transcript

1. @ZEHICLE #IaC But… Infrastructure as Code! Send in our robot overlords, my job here is done. WATCH THE VIDEO: https://youtu.be/oAUWKro093M
2. @ZEHICLE #IaC cat <<EOF Preso: IaC: YAML EOF
3. @ZEHICLE #IaC IaC Promise IaC Vendors IaC Reality Infrastructure as Code is Aspirational
4. @ZEHICLE #IaC Rob Hirschfeld CEO & Co-Founder RackN & Digital Rebar Why do we care about IaC? To fix bare metal automation, we had to accept that every data center is a snowflake. So we needed to make our automation simple, modular and portable. Simply put - we had to build an IaC platform: Digital Rebar
5. @ZEHICLE #IaC IaC Dev Starts from Application Works Down Relies heavily on Infrastructure Platforms IaC Ops Starts from Infrastructure Works Up Drives to Platform as a Service vs
6. @ZEHICLE #IaC IaC Dev IaC Ops vs
7. @ZEHICLE #IaC IaC is combines SIX themes 1 Programmatic Config Infrastructure as Code YAML!
8. @ZEHICLE #IaC IaC is combines SIX themes 1 Programmatic Config Infrastructure as Code, this is I YAML! 2 Dynamic Infrastructure API driven Infrastructure Cloud, IaaS, Kubernetes
9. @ZEHICLE #IaC IaC is combines SIX themes 1 Programmatic Config Infrastructure as Code, this is YAML! 2 Dynamic Infrastructure API driven Infrastructure Cloud, IaaS, Kubernetes 3 Desired State Engine Platform as a Service Kubernetes, Rebar, Terraform
10. @ZEHICLE #IaC IaC is combines SIX themes 1 Programmatic Config Infrastructure, this is IaC YAML! 2 Dynamic Infrastructure API driven Infrastructure Cloud, IaaS, Kubernetes 3 Desired State Engine Platform as a Service Kubernetes, Rebar, Terraform 4 Deploy from Source Ctrl Immutability GitOps, Dockerfile, Image Deploy
11. @ZEHICLE #IaC IaC is combines SIX themes 1 Programmatic Config Infrastructure, this is IaC YAML! 2 Dynamic Infrastructure API driven Infrastructure Cloud, IaaS, Kubernetes 3 Desired State Engine Platform as a Service Kubernetes, Rebar, Terraform 4 Deploy from Source Ctrl Immutability GitOps, Dockerfile, Image Deploy 5 Composable Automation Modular Building Blocks Ansible Playbooks, Chef Recipes, Puppet Modules
12. @ZEHICLE #IaC IaC is combines SIX themes 1 Programmatic Config Infrastructure, this is IaC YAML! 2 Dynamic Infrastructure API driven Infrastructure Cloud, IaaS, Kubernetes 3 Desired State Engine Platform as a Service Kubernetes, Rebar, Terraform 4 Deploy from Source Ctrl Immutability GitOps, Dockerfile, Image Deploy 5 Composable Automation Modular Building Blocks Ansible Playbooks, Chef Recipes, Puppet Modules 6 CI/CD Pipeline Iterative Dev to Prod Jenkins, Gitlab, Travis
13. @ZEHICLE #IaC IaC: bottom of the automation hierarchy 1 1 Programmatic Config 2 2 Dynamic Infrastructure 3 3 Desired State Engine 4 4 Deploy from Source Ctrl 5 5 Composable Automation 6 6 CI/CD Pipeline
14. @ZEHICLE #IaC Terraform 1 Programmatic Config 2 Dynamic Infrastructure 3 Desired State Engine 4 Deploy from Source Ctrl 5 Composable Automation 6 CI/CD Pipeline
15. @ZEHICLE #IaC Digital Rebar 1 Programmatic Config 2 Dynamic Infrastructure 3 Desired State Engine 4 Deploy from Source Ctrl 5 Composable Automation 6 CI/CD Pipeline
16. @ZEHICLE #IaC So is IaC the right term? No. What about SDx or SDDC? They are co-opted for IaaS.
17. @ZEHICLE #IaC Continuously Integrated Data Center (CI DC)
18. @ZEHICLE #IaC CI DC Thinking: Digital Rebar
19. @ZEHICLE #IaC Programmatic Config (#1): Golang Templates #!/usr/local/bin/env bash # Helper to setup DRP tasks for other templates {{ if .ParamExists "rs-debug-enable" }} {{ if eq (.Param "rs-debug-enable") true }} RS_DEBUG_ENABLE="{{.Param "rs-debug-enable"}}" set -x {{ end }} {{ end }} [[ $RS_ENDPOINT ]] || export RS_ENDPOINT="{{.ApiURL}}" [[ $RS_UUID ]] || export RS_UUID="{{.Machine.UUID}}" Scripts, Kickstarts, Configs... Simple Variable Substitution Value Existence Tests Conditional Logic Built in variables
20. @ZEHICLE #IaC Dynamic Infra (#2): Shared System State Digital Rebar Platform State API Machine + Agent Machine + Agent CLI Transitory Connections Persistent Connections Web UX PXE DHCP
21. @ZEHICLE #IaC Dynamic Infra (#2): Shared System State Digital Rebar Platform State API Machine + Agent Machine + Agent CLI Transitory Connections Persistent Connections Web UX Ops Systems • Ansible Tower • BMC / IPMI • DNS • Active Directory • Clouds • CMDB & Terraform Clients PXE DHCP • Ansible • Terraform • K8s Cluster API
22. @ZEHICLE #IaC Configure Reboot Image Update Inventory Desired State (#3): Workflow Discover Boot 1. User Asks for Target Configuration 2. System Builds Task List 3. System Orchestrates Tasks
23. @ZEHICLE #IaC Configure Reboot Image Update Inventory Desired State (#3): Workflow Discover Boot Input Param Read Param Output Param External Data
24. @ZEHICLE #IaC Composable (#4): Workflow > Stages > Tasks ESX Install Stage Discover Task Netboot Task Inventory Task BIOS Update Stage ESX Install Task Weasel Task Net Conf Workflow
25. @ZEHICLE #IaC Composable (#4): Workflow > Stages > Tasks Task Linux RAMdisk Task Inventory Task Weasel Task Net Conf Netboot Golang Runner Redfish Python Runner BIOS Update Task Reboot
26. @ZEHICLE #IaC Catalog Content Custom Content Composable (#4): Workflow > Stages > Tasks Windows CI/CD Stage Discover Task Verify System Task BIOS Update Task SoR Update Stage Image Deploy Task Write Image Task Post Install Workflow
27. @ZEHICLE #IaC Deploy from Source (#5): Content Packs State API Git CLI Bundle Composable Parts Content Pack DRP
28. @ZEHICLE #IaC Deploy from Source (#5): Content Packs State API Git CLI Bundle State API Composable Parts AWS S3 Content Pack Catalog Dev Prod
29. @ZEHICLE #IaC Pipeline (#6): Cloud APIs & Resource Pools Digital Rebar Platform State API Machines Machines PXE DHCP Machines Machines Machines Machines Pool A Pool B CI Pipeline Build Image Run Tests Get Results
30. @ZEHICLE #IaC CI DC with Digital Rebar 1 Programmatic Config 2 Dynamic Infrastructure 3 Desired State Engine 4 Deploy from Source Ctrl 5 Composable Automation 6 CI/CD Pipeline
31. @ZEHICLE #IaC Thank you! Rob Hirschfeld - @zehicle https://rebar.digital https://rackn.com