Increasing the Speed and Agility of Cloud and Data Center Infrastructure Management with Puppet and Eucalyptus

Today’s Webinar:

Increasing the Speed and Agility of

Cloud and Data Center

Infrastructure Management with

Puppet and Eucalyptus

© 2011 Eucalyptus Systems, Inc.

Agenda

• General introduction – Brady Murray

• Setting up the problem – Paul Weiss

• How Puppet helps – Teyo Tyree

• Managing Eucalyptus Instances with Puppet –

David Kavanagh

• Hudson Demo – Teyo Tyree

• Q&A - All


Setting up the problem

Paul Weiss

Eucalyptus Systems


Why Cloud?

• Agility

• Scalability

• Automation

• Resource sharing

• Hybrid cloud


Benefits of Cloud

Computing to IT

• IT can focus on innovation for the business

• Reduces capital and operational costs

• Helps to automate complex technologies

• Better SLA management

• Disaster Recovery & Business

Continuance

• Common API


What are some of the challenges

of maintaining an IaaS Cloud?

• People

• Automation

• Complex Technology

• Image management

• System drift

• Security Standards

• Infrastructure agility


Eucalyptus architecture


Eucalyptus IaaS Management


Managing IaaS

• Query of availability zones (i.e. clusters in Eucalyptus)

• SSH key management (add, list, delete)

• VM management (start, list, stop, reboot, get console

output)

• Security group management

• Volume and snapshot management (attach, list, detach,

create, bundle, delete)

• Image management (bundle, upload, register, list,

deregister)

• IP address management (allocate, associate, list, release)


Why Eucalyptus and Puppet?

• Best of breed products

• Hybrid clouds – Eucalyptus <>

Amazon AWS

• Maintain Image Catalog better

• Maintain security compliance

• Maintain system drift

• Common tools

How Puppet helps

Teyo Tyree

Puppet Labs


Puppet Platform


How Puppet Works


Use Puppet to create composable

configurations and manage the enterprise

infrastructure


To see how Puppet works, let’s take a

look at what happens at the node level:


How Puppet manages data flow for

individual nodes


Data flow technical view

Managing Eucalyptus Instances

with Puppet

David Kavanagh

Eucalyptus Systems


Puppet Master Overview

• Start base image

• Download Puppet Enterprise

release bundle

• Run installer

• Add modules (classes)

• Access Dashboard to configure

classes

Hudson demo

Teyo Tyree

Puppet Labs


Questions and Answers

Please submit your questions using the

GoToWebinar messaging box


April 26 Announcement

Eucalyptus and Puppet Labs Partner to Deliver Enhanced

Automation and Management of On-premise IaaS Clouds

• New Eucalyptus-Puppet Integration Kit Makes it Easy to Configure,

Provision and Manage Eucalyptus Clouds

http://www.eucalyptus.com/content/press-release-april-26-2011











Getting Started

Want to get started with a POC, contact:

[email protected], or

[email protected]

To download go to:

open.eucalyptus.com, or

info.puppetlabs.com/puppet-enterprise

mailto:[email protected]

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THANK YOU!