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ManageIQ devops happiness and puppet integration architecturesJames Shubin, @purpleideaConfig Mgmt. ArchitectSystems Engineering Group, Red Hat

ManageIQ Summit, 2014

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Who am I ?

● Puppet Hacker

● Config Mgmt. Architect @ Red Hat

● Technical Blogger: The Technical Blog of Jameshttps://ttboj.wordpress.com/

● Physiologist (Cardiology Specialization)

● All around hoopy frood...

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disclaimer: I am not a cloudforms expert

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I'm not a cfme expert...

...but hopefully I can convince you that I know what I'm talking about architecturally, and concerning devops + config mgmt.!

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vagrant

+ vagrant-libvirt

+ oh-my-vagrant

devops happiness

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devops makes for happy hackers...

i vagrant �

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vagrant + vagrant-libvirt + oh-my-vagrant

<live demo>

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puppet integration architectures

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there's a lot of talk about...

(cfme as the centre of the universe...)

cfmesome user/adminuser clicksthe mouse

puppet clientruns somecfme hook

...but this doesn't have a strong integration story

puppet master

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i tried hard to make you those fancy effects...

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consider: wrapping CFME with puppet

(IOW, someone should write puppet-cfme)

puppet servercode / datagit push

cfmepuppetagent

...can strongly integrate, because cfme “clients” can “export resources” back to the cfme server

puppet client

feedback loop

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there are some features which would make all of this

much easier in cfme...

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there are some features which would make all of this

much easier in cfme...

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there are some features which would make all of this

possible in cfme...

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Enabling vagrant...

● Distribution of cfme as RPM...

● Makes it easy to layer cfme on top of a base image...

● Gives you a homogeneous vagrant environment...

● Enables devel/testing/demos on full clusters!

● More bullet points means more awesome!!!

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Wrapping cfme with a puppet module...

● Needs a complete cfme CLI

● The CLI should use the RESTful API (for sanity)

● vmdb.yml.db should support an include.d/ style feature

● cfme “console” (menu options) needs to be accessible / modifiable via CLI or config file

● FreeIPA got wrapped beautifully because of this model!

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wouldn't this deprecate the use of the cfme webui?

(no!)

here's why...

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Hybrid management of cfme types...

● Typically, only one thing can manage each resource...

● This doesn't work well when you want to combine puppet + webui + cli usage simultaneously...

● Therefore, I invented: “Hybrid management for Puppet”

● POC with FreeIPA – please feel free to extend to cfme

● This is an advanced puppet technique, but it's worth it!

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Red Hat funds good hackers so that we can...

● Work on open source / free software things...

● Speak at events like this...

● Hack on good products and solutions...

● For access to products, solutions, and support, visit:

ht tps: / / redhat .com/

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Learn more

● The Technical Blog of James:https://ttboj.wordpress.com/

● Puppet-IPA:https://github.com/purpleidea/puppet-ipa

● Technical article about this technique:https://ttboj.wordpress.com/2014/07/24/hybrid-management-of-freeipa-types-with-puppet/

● Contact me if you have any other questions:purpleidea @ { irc, twitter, redhat.com }

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Q & A ?

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Thank you & Happy Hacking !