Managing Systems with Puppet

Eric Eisenhart <freiheit@socosa.org> SoCoSA August 7, 2007

Overview

Overview Who's Eric? What Is Puppet? Comparisons Client, Server, and Protocol Language

More Language... Some more Language...

Real Examples Q&A

Who's Eric? Why does he want to automate?

Unix user for 15 years Unix sysadmin for 12 years Currently: Lead Unix sysadmin at SSU

~80 *nix servers

~half highly customer visible (announce outages, etc.) Mostly RHEL; a little RHL (gone soon), a few Solaris

1.5 admins (other unix admin is also storage admin) Recent purchases: about a dozen more servers

Expected this FY: another 9 for sure plus another dozen or so likely? plus more test systems?
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What Is Puppet?

A declarative language for expressing system conguration a client & server for distributing it a library for realizing the conguration an open development community

With a 2-person company behind it

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Huh? What's that mean?

A way to manage many computers without touching them Make the computers do the boring work and concentrate on interesting things

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Comparable Solutions

cfengine Bcfg2 lcfg radmind Opsware BladeLogic Microsoft SMS Netdirector IBM Tivoli

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Incomparable Solutions

shell script loops

for host in `cat rhel4boxes`; do ssh root@$host \ perl -pie 's/foo/bar/' /etc/baz done

Installation-time scripting (kickstart) Crazy RPM tricks

%post perl -pie 's/foo/bar/' /etc/baz

Disk imaging (dd, ghost, etc.)

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Client, Server, and Protocol

Protocol: SSL; CA builtin Server: listens on one master Client: daemon runs on many nodes and wakes up every 30 minutes factsync, pluginsync, reports

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Client <-> Server

Client wakes up Client connects to server Client sends facts to server Server compiles conguration Server sends conguration Client loads conguration Client runs needed transactions (Optional) Client fetches more stuff from server Client sends report to server
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Client

Transactional Idempotent Modular

Resource Types <-> Resource Providers Reusable

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Library

Ruby Reusable Swappable Extensible

new types can be just one ruby le plugins!

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Language: structure

nodes inheritance classes types denitions Lions, Tigers and Bears!

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Language: Types

Any Unix:

cron, exec, le, group, host, mount, package, service, sshkey, tidy, user yumrepo, zone schedule, lebucket

Exclusive:

Special:

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Metaparameters

name alias before & require notify & subscribe schedule tag

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Type examples

cron { logrotate: command => /usr/sbin/logrotate, user => root, hour => 2, minute => 0, } package { kernel: ensure => latest } host { foo.org: ip => 10.2.5.2 } user { eric: ensure => present }

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Type examples: exec

exec { make cwd => creates => require => }

stuff: /nfs/example/foo, /nfs/example/foo/stuff, Mount[/nfs/example/foo],

command, creates, cwd, env, group, logoutput, onlyif, path, refresh, refreshonly, returns, timeout, unless, user

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Conditionals

file { "/some/file": owner => $os ? { sunos => "adm", redhat => "bin", }, mode => 0755, owner => root, } case $operatingsystem { sunos: { include solaris } redhat: { include redhat } default: { include generic } }
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Denitions

define apache::virtual_host($docroot, $ip, $order = 500, $ensure = "enabled") { $file = "/etc/sites-available/$name.conf" # The template fills in the docroot, ip, and name. file { $file: content => template("virtual_host.erb"), notify => Service[apache] } file { "/etc/sites-enabled/$order-$name.conf": ensure => $ensure ? { enabled => $file, disabled => absent } } }
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Language: classes
class ntp { file { "/etc/ntp.conf": source => [ "puppet://$puppetserver/ntp/ntp.conf.$hostname", "puppet://$puppetserver/ntp/ntp.conf" ], notify => Service[ntpd], } service { "ntpd": ensure => running, enable => true, } } package { ntp-server: ensure => installed }

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Templates (ERB)

$backupserver = [ foo, bar ] $backupclient = baz; file { "/opt/openv/.../bp.conf": content => template("nbp/bp_conf.erb") } # HEADER: Do not edit on live system. # HEADER: Look in puppet instead. <% backupservers.each do |server| -%> SERVER = <%= server %> <% end -%> CLIENT_NAME = <%= backupclient %> See also: generate()
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Modules

# cd /etc/puppet/modules/netbackup_client # find . | grep -v CVS . ./templates ./templates/bp_conf.erb ./README ./manifests ./manifests/init.pp ./files ./files/NET_BUFFER_SZ

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Bringing it all together

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Show and Tell

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Q&A

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