Advanced Systems Management with Machinery

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1 Advanced Systems Management with Machinery Andreas Jaeger Thomas Göttlicher Senior Product Manager Software Engineer

2 Who Are We? Andreas Jaeger Product Manager Thomas Göttlicher Software Engineer 2

3 Alfred's Challenges 3 Administrate old machine because former admin has left the company Make sure all security updates are installed, incl. software from tar-balls Migrate to new OS version Ensure system's configuration complies to company rules Validate that OS is set up according to application's requirements Alfred Data Center Admin

4 What is Machinery?

5 Use Case Areas Configuration Discovery System Validation Service Migration 5

6 Configuration Discovery 6

7 System Validation 7

8 Service Migration 8

9 Use Case Elements 9

10 System Description 10 Tool centers around system description Saved on central admin server Complete system information includes: Packages Changed managed files Unmanaged files Services

11 Design Concepts 11 Command-line tool No client software installation necessary Access client machines via ssh from central admin server

12 Offline Systems Management

13 What Machinery is Not 13 Machinery is not a configuration management system a monitoring tool a replacement for YaST a replacement for SUSE Manager

14 Other tools Cooperation different tools fulfill different needs Ansible, cfengine, chef, puppet, other CM Automatic configuration of many machines But how to install the system initially? How to validate that your scripts (playbooks, recipes, manifests, etc) do the right thing? SUSE Manager WebUI Might use machinery for some tasks AIDE 14 Machinery is not a sophisticated security tool but can help with some tasks

15 Machinery's Philosophy 15 Made for the system administrator of the data center Universal system description Integrate, not duplicate Open toolbox Agile development Technical excellence Open Source

16 How to get Machinery

17 Machinery in SLES 17 Part of SLES 12 mission: Best managed Linux Advanced Systems Management Module More rapidly developed life cycle Frequent releases driven by customer needs Provide building blocks

18 Advanced Systems Management Module 18

19 SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 Modules 19 Components of SUSE Linux Enterprise Flexible lifecycle (different from the base product) Delivered on-line Fully supported Included in the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server subscription no extra cost Introduced with SUSE Linux Enterprise 12

20 SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 Modules a closer look Module Name 20 Content Lifecycle Web and Scripting Module PHP, Python, Ruby on Rails 3 years Legacy Module Sendmail, old IMAP stack, old Java etc. 3 years Public Cloud Module Public cloud initialization code and tools Continuous Integration Toolchain Module GCC Yearly delivery Advanced Systems Management Module The configuration management tools cfengine, puppet and the new "machinery" tool Continuous Integration

21 Project

22 Machinery as Open Source Project 22

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24 Plan 24 Just released version 1.0 (October 2014) Frequent releases driven by customer needs System descriptions as documentation System descriptions as templates Migration of services from SLES 11 to SLES 12 Support further OSes for inspection Support all SLE 12 architectures

25 Demo

26 Demo 6 VM

27 Happy Alfred? 27

28 Contact Homepage: Source Code: Mailing List: 28

29 How Will You Use Machinery? Thank you. 29

30 30 Corporate Headquarters (Worldwide) Join us on: Maxfeldstrasse Nuremberg Germany

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