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P4@UC4: Version and Automate Everything

Bernhard Burger Manager QA UC4 Software bernhard.burger@uc4.com www.uc4.com

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Outline

•  P4@UC4: Start and First Setup

•  Experiences and Learnings

•  Second Setup: Automate Everything

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P4@UC4: The start

•  Decided to go with P4 around 4 years ago

•  Started in three different locations, two local Servers and a proxy

•  Windows based installation

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Setup

•  Two  Masters:  1  in  US,  1  in  Europe  (latency  issues)  

•  The  setup  was  good  enough  to  meet  the  needs  of  Development  at  the  Dme  of  creaDon  

 

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Setting up housekeeping

•  HA/DR •  Index rebuilds •  Verification

àdone using windows services, scripts and tooling according to our P4 consultant (who is GREAT!)

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Typical Problems

•  Sometimes these services just stop

•  Error handling, monitoring, auditing is limited

•  Upgrades have to be done by hand on every instance

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Solution

Eat (y)our own dogfood

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UC4 ONE Automation

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Basic Architecture

•  Central Engine and repository

•  Agents on target systems

•  UIs

Active/Active

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The looks of it

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Combining the SW Stacks

•  Setup a UC4 System for Use with P4, Agents on all P4 machines

•  Define Installation and roll it out AUTOMATICALLY

•  Bring all the Housekeeping tasks into UC4

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New Setup

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What we do - Rollout

•  Complete P4 environment •  Directories, binaries •  Config files •  Broker configs •  Reseed- and restore scripts

•  In case a replica crashes, it can be reconfigured on new hardware in no time •  Triggers

•  Binaries •  Trigger table

•  P4 configureables •  Permissions •  Upgrade process

•  Prod and test instances •  Either prod or test instance for all locations can be upgraded in one run

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What we do - Housekeeping

•  Maintenance for all locations •  Log rotation •  Verify •  Replica sync •  Backups

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What we do – Health Check

•  Monitoring for all locations checks, if •  Hosts online? •  UC4 Agents? •  RAID actice •  Disks mounted? •  Disk space •  Running processes (PIDs) •  CPU usage •  Mem usage •  Swap Usage •  Last run of maintenance scripts •  Pulling of archive files? •  Meta data current? •  SSH & public key •  P4 licenses •  Network interfaces •  P4 processes (p4 monitor show) •  None of the above checks was running more than an hour ago

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Some stats

•  33000 tasks/day

•  As defined in around 170 UC4 Templates ootb

•  Savings of 80% in Administration and Rollout (while increasing Monitoring and Reliability)

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You Aint Seen Nothing Yet

•  We also use UC4 to to manage the build process of our software in close integration with P4 (Build Triggers, Check-in of Build Artifacts)

•  Additionally build artifacts are deployed automatically by UC4, either from FS or from P4

•  Integration with Ticket Systems/ALM tools are possible to add further traceability

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Summary

•  UC4 enables us to automate our P4 operations

•  Not only Operations, but also Deployment and Build processes are managed and automated

•  UC4 and P4 are a first class DevOps toolset

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Questions?

Are you UC4 customer? Bernhard.Burger@uc4.com www.uc4.com