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Configuration Management

Who we are

Eric J ames - Programmer/Analyst, Library IT Tenyo Grozev - Engineer, Infrastructure Services Vincent Balbarin - Solution Architect, Design Services

Configuration Management Tool Chain

Vagrant Chef Ansible

Vagrant

Basic Vagrant components

Box Network (port exposure, public, private,share) Synched folder Provider (virtual box, aws) Provision (file, shell, docker, ansible, chef)

Vagrant in Use

https://github.com/yulgit1/pcdm-geo-models/blob/yale_master/Vagrantfile https://github.com/yalelibrary/search-frontend/blob/RC9/Vagrantfile https://github.com/yalelibrary/search-frontend/blob/RC9/script.sh

Chef

Configuration management tool (Ruby + Erlang) Server or standalone mode (chef_solo, chef_zero) Support for Linux, Windows, and others Uses “recipes” to describe specific configurations Collects information about the host system (ohai) Chef DK for local development

Chef demo

$ vagrant plugin install vagrant-omnibus $ vagrant plugin install vagrant-berkshelf $ vagrant init bento/centos-7.3 $ chef generate cookbook serverapi

ServerAPI

EC2-API Vmware-API :8080

:8081 :8082

• Setup packages repos
• Install RVM + rubies
• Clone APIs from Github, bundle

install and start

Ansible: What is it?

The framework is written in Python. Resource providers are native to the managed node. Agentless

Communicates via SSH (*nix) or WinRM (Windows) Local execution

Configuration is expressed as YAML (YAML Ain’t Markup Language) Individual modules may be invoked to perform adhoc management.

Ansible Demo Configure a Redhat Linux Sandbox instance as an Ansible management node.

https://git.yale.edu/spinup/ansible

Use Ansible to configure a Windows Server 2012r2 Sandbox instance for Windows Puppet development.