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Puppet and vRealize Automation: The Next Generation

PuppetConf 2016

Ganesh Subramaniam, VMware Bruce George, VMware Sanjay Maru, St. Joseph Health

Agenda

1 vRealize Automation & Configuration Management

2 VMware & Puppet Joint Solution / Demo

3 Customer: St. Joseph Health

4 Q & A

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A Tale of Two Teams

Infrastructure Team

Applications Team

Duplication of Efforts Extensibility: Inconsistencies, Inflexible approaches

Unsupported Home-grown Solution

Agility: Slow IT Service Delivery

vRealize Suite: the Control Plane of the SDDC

CONFIDENTIAL 4

Delivering the Enterprise-Ready Cloud Management Platform

Any Device Business Mobility: Applications | Devices | Content

Any Application Traditional | Cloud Native

One Cloud Software-Defined Datacenter (SDDC)

Cloud Management Platform

Compute Networking & Security

Storage Multi-Cloud

Virtual / Cloud Infrastructure

vRealize Automation

VMware Integrated OpenStack (VIO)

vRealize Operations vRealize Log Insight

vRealize Network Insight (Arkin)

vRealize Business

DevOps

Extensibility

vRealize Code Stream

Management Packs

Unified Blueprint Model and Design Canvas

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Graphical drag and drop design canvas across vRealize Automation services

Design Components •  Infrastructure •  Networks •  Security •  Software •  XaaS

Drag and Drop Components to Design Applications •  Relationships •  Dependencies •  Networks •  Security

vRealize Automation - Policy Management

Business Groups

B A

C

USERS

A

C

B

A

Authen,ca,on&Role-BasedAuthoriza,on

Authorized Users

Resource Reservations

CostProfile

A

Tier1

Public

Physical

Virtual

Shared Infrastructure

Service Blueprints

A

Requisi,on

CostProfile

Provision

Manage

Re,re

Public

Physical

Virtual

C B

B

A

B

A

C B A

“Who provisions what and where”

Extensible to new services

Portal branding per tenant

App store experience

Service category

Your logo

Custom Service

Entitlements and Approvals for each item

Unified Service Catalog: Infrastructure, Applications, Custom IT Services

IT Automating IT Illustrated

§  IT requests services in the services catalog on behalf of consumers

§  IT delivers infrastructure services to apps teams

§  Later, App teams can be entitled to request services on their own IT Teams

Apps / LOB

Accelerated delivery of infrastructure services

vRealize Automation

Service Catalog

Compute Network Storage

Dev Test Prod

1

2

3

4

Summary

Provisioning a VM is fast and easy, but...

●  May not be security hardened or compliant with org’s Standard Operating Environment (SOE)

●  Consumer still has to add their own components, likely manually.

●  You could easily consume a week’s worth of work manually completing the build-out of the newly provisioned server

●  VMs can get thrown over the wall: no central visibility into what the Consumer has done to the VM or what state it is in now

●  No way to automate updating the VM once it has been provisioned

Integration with Configuration Management Solution

Self - Service

Infrastructure Services

Cloud Automation

Heterogeneous Infrastructure

Policy-Based Governance with Automated Delivery

Drift Remediation

Service Catalog Blueprints

Configuration Language

VMware Cloud Management Marketplace

Puppet Forge

Community

Ecosystem

Configuration

Application Services Custom Services

Publish to Self-Service Catalog Apply Governance

Control Through Policies

Define in Blueprint for Consistency

1 vRealize Automation & Configuration Management

2 VMware & Puppet Joint Solution / Demo

3 Customer: St. Joseph Health

4 Q & A

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vRealize Automation - Puppet Plugin

OS Configuration, Application Provisioning, and Lifecycle Management

•  It’s a collection of vRealize Orchestrator (vRO) workflows

•  Works with both Puppet Open Source and Puppet Enterprise

vRealize Automation

New vRA-Puppet Plugin –

Announced yesterday!

Use Cases

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Install, Configure & Auto-Sign Plugin

Single-VM and vRealize Automation Orchestrated converged Blueprint Creation

Consumer Provisioning from a Blueprint Workflow

Decommissioning and Machine-Level Day 2 operations

Node Management

vRealize Automation

vRealize Orchestrator

Step 1: ✓  Provision VM from vRA ✓  Install Puppet Agent ✓  Register w/Puppet Master ✓  Assign Puppet role ✓  Dependencies set via vRA

Blueprint

Step 2: Puppet Master determines correct config. for each role e.g.: VM1 is a DB

Step 3: Puppet Enterprise performs ongoing life-cycle management

vRealize Automation & Puppet Workflow

Database Web Service

Load Balancer

Puppet Master

Key Value Proposition

vRealize Automation leverages Puppet's ability to fully configure machines to make them production ready Maintain visibility into drift and ability to make Day 2 change during the machine's lifecycle Doesn't need to do anything differently to provide content to the vRealize Automation admin

Easy to create offerings that delivers production-ready infrastructure to their consumers Once the blueprint is created, no further intervention is required Doesn't need to know much about Puppet. Leverage vRA's governance capabilities as well as orchestration

Get what they want immediately by clicking one button Don't need to know anything about Puppet or vRealize Automation Do get compliant infrastructure and don't have to spend time manually adding additional components

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Consumer

vRealize Automation Admin

Puppet Practitioner

Demo

1 vRealize Automation & Configuration Management

2 VMware & Puppet Joint Solution

3 Customer: St. Joseph Health

4 Q & A

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St. Joseph Health at a glance

St. Joseph Health IT at a glance

St. Joseph Health IT: Virtual Data Center Value Business Goals

Menu-Based Provisioning • 1 to 1000’s or servers in seconds/minutes

Zero Touch • Administra?on • Support

Dev/Test/Prod Environments • Eliminate accidental outages • Protected environments • Test before deploy

Business Con?nuity & DR • Recover in minutes • Con?nuous recovery tes?ng

Security • Industry leading security • Automated audit/compliance • Con?nuous configura?on management

Service Level Agreements (SLA’s) • Performance • Availability • Support

St. Joseph Health IT: Auto Provisioning, Continuous Delivery & Configuration Management

1 vRealize Automation & Configuration Management

2 VMware & Puppet Joint Solution

3 Customer: St. Joseph Health

4 Q & A

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Questions

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Thank You