IT Process Orchestration with Jenkins

Presented ByAater Suleman

DevOpsdays Austin 2015 - May 4-5, 2015

Today’s Presenter

Aater Suleman Co-Founder & CEO Flux7

Faculty, University of Texas at Austin

Flux7: Cloud and DevOps Solutions

Heavy focus on AWS, Docker, and Ansible

ClientsPartners

Flux7 in a nutshell

Customer Focus

Use automation to provide self-service, agile, and secure IT

Our Obsession with Automation

Started Flux7 to democratize what had worked for us

“Innovatively” solved IT issues at our past jobs

We were customers of traditional IT

Deliver Cloud Automation Scripts

SCRIPTS

Creates a bimodal response

People become experts

Never uses them

DevOps requires building different levels of interfaces

to the infrastructure

Today

Fluxboard (Automation Dashboard)

Templates Documentation

Fluxboard

Provides CI/CD

Jobs for ops teams

Best practices from 120+ AWS projects

Jenkins for Dev and Ops automation

Interfaces

Fluxboard: Our Jenkins

Why Jenkins…

Job ConfigsJob

Description

○ GUI○ CLI○ Restful API

○ Manual○ YAML ○ JSON

○ BASH○ Python, or

anything you like

More Features

Extensible Flexible

CreationManagement

Numerous plugins supportNetwork

APIs

Automated creationEasy backup/Restore

Version Control

Tools

OS

NAT

ASG

App Subnet

CIDR 10.0.0.0/16

ELB Subnet

DB Subnet

RDS

Pictures

VPN

Flux-board

Environment Setup

Fluxboard

For Disaster Recovery

For Polling Daemons

As an API Server

Drupal Front-end FluxboardAWS API and EC2

Server Access

CD of Infrastructure (as code)

YAML config pushed to git repo

CloudFormation Template Generated

CloudFormation Stack Updated

Self-Service IT

EZ Buttons for:

Create a compliant server

Employ/check security policies

Bake a hardened AMI

… a place for Continuous Learning?

Many of our customers take it a step further with their own jobs

Future of Fluxboard

Integration with third parties

Drawboard

Automated documentation

Thank you

Twitter: @Flux7Labs

Website: www.flux7.com

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