Managing Domain Registries with Puppet

Steve SingerDatabase Developer & Architect Afilias Canada

PuppetCamp TorontoAug 17 2015

About Afilias

Registration Basics

YouGo Daddy

Tucows

Name.com

Afilias

EPP

Root nameserver

a2.nic.black

ns1.somehost.net

ns.sympatico.ca

DNS Lookup: www.mydomain.black

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Answer: a2.nic.black 65.22.28.9

Answer: ns1.somehost.net

Answer: 217.70.184.38

INFO – 2001

https://www.flickr.com/photos/ben124/8282726074/

2003

Growth

2001 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2010 20120

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TLD Count

Deployment Architecture

Billing Data warehouse Email,DNS,Monitoring

Ontario Texas

AWS

IndiaIndia

Infrastructure

2013 new TLD program

Adding 300 TLDS

https://www.flickr.com/photos/waltstoneburner/3372746317/

Use automation

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/multimedia/gallery/iss034e037352.html

Puppet first uses

https://www.flickr.com/photos/mujitra/4422575066/

Puppet 2.7 architecture

LDAP

GIT

PuppetServer

devpuppet

Production/Staging

QA/DEV

Hiera YAMLmodules

LDAP ENC

Hiera for configuration

web

.info whois

vertical

appdb_host : infowho.db1

db_host : infoweb.db1

web

.org whoisapp

db_host : orgwho.db1

db_host : orgweb.db1

app

whois

web

port : 43

port : 80

OS Versus Application

Authentication Email DNS

Application

Approaches to puppet before production

https://www.flickr.com/photos/ijammin/4434778643/

SCRUM

https://www.flickr.com/photos/112458074@N04/16430835967/

Ask developers to learn puppet

Bootstrap with a puppet superhero

Credits: www.xkcd.com

Experiences with QA

https://www.flickr.com/photos/112458074@N04/16430835967/

TAR, RPM

https://www.flickr.com/photos/halfbisqued/2353845688/

Puppet Upgrades

https://www.flickr.com/photos/7687126@N06/3024604343/

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Thank Youssinger@afilias.info

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