Slides from the New York City CloudStack Users Group Meetup presentation on knife-cloudstack-fog

1. Chef & CloudStack
CLOUD SYSTEMS AUTOMATION AND CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT
USING CHEF WITH APACHE CLOUDSTACK / CITRIX CLOUDPLATFORM

2. #> whoami
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Jeff Moody
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Cloud Engineer with Datapipe
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Managed AWS Services
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Infrastructure-as-a-Service Platform built using Citrix CloudPlatform
(Stratosphere)
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Managed Service Provider based in Jersey City, NJ
Managed Services on Stratosphere
Primary Author / Maintainer of knife-cloudstack-fog

3. DISCLAMER
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My opinions are my own, not necessarily representative of my
employer
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Your Mileage May Vary
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No code is perfect, there may be bugs (please send pull requests if
you find them)
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This will be a live demonstration, things may break

4. knife-cloudstack-fog
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Why two CloudStack plugins for Knife?
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What makes the two plugins different?
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Why use a knife plugin?

5. What is CloudStack?
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(You might be at the wrong Meetup)
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VM Orchestration Platform
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Public, Private, VPC style Clouds

6. What is FOG?
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Cloud-independent/agnostic toolkit for Ruby
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Initial CloudStack support added by Brian Dorry (also of Datapipe)
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Uniform-ish access to all Cloud resources (independent of provider)
using common-ish language
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Used by Chef first-party knife plugins

7. What is Chef?
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Configuration Management utility/platform written in Ruby/Erlang
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Cloud Management/Orchestration toolkit

8. What is knife?
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The CLI interface to Chef
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Supports plugins
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Using plugins, supports Cloud provisioning
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Plugins can provide features, override functions, provide primitives
AWS, CloudStack, OpenStack, Google Compute, Azure
Used to interact with Chef Server

9. Demo Time!
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This is a real demo, things may break. So, please bear with me

10. Future
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Potential merge with knife-cloudstack
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Potential migration to knife-cloud

11. Questions?
Jeff Moody
Datapipe
E-Mail: jmoody@datapipe.com / fifthecho@gmail.com
GitHub: fifthecho (https://github.com/fifthecho/)
Twitter: @fifthecho