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Network Operations

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Modern Cloud Era

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Introduction

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Puppet Labs

Jose Palafox, Business Development Kris Amundson, Sr. Operations Engineer

Cumulus Networks

Meena Sankaran Ecosystem & Solutions

Poll Question #1

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The IT Automation Leader

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Over 2,000 community-contributed modules

Founded in 2005

Over 10 million nodes managed

Deep partnerships with datacenter titans

18000 customers worldwide

EXPERIENCE

SCALE

ECOSYSTEM

CUSTOMERS

COMMUNITY

The Cost of Manual Management

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60% of IT managers are not satisfied with the speed at which IT responds to business needs.

PRODUCTIVITY 48% of IT professionals spend 50% or more of their time on basic administrative tasks.

93% of IT professionals cannot answer “What changed?” when an outage incident occurs.

SPEED

INSIGHT

DEFINE AUTOMATE

THE PUPPET ENTERPRISE APPROACH

operating system resources · virtual machines · clouds · network devices · storage devices · applications

Simulate Enforce Report

Choose from thousands of pre-built modules.

Define

Define the desired state using a powerful, declarative language.

service { 'ssh': ensure => running, enable => true,}

Simulate Enforce Report Define

Simulate changes before you deploy them.

Simulate Enforce Report Define

Enforce changes and remediate configuration drift

Simulate Enforce Report Define

Gain insight into your infrastructure.

The Benefits of Automation

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Accelerate cycle times. Make iterative changes.

Define once, run a thousand times. Automatically remediate drift.

See the exact state of your machines. Know what changed and when.

PRODUCTIVITY

SPEED

INSIGHT

Financial Telco/SP

Internet Tech

Gov. Defense

Education Mfg.

Retail Media

SUCCESS IN EVERY VERTICAL

Why Puppet For the Network

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§ Zero Touch Provisioning with ONIE and Puppet Enterprise

§ Provides Choice of Hardware for the customers

§ Ability to use standard Modules

§ Ability to increase efficiency and standardization

§  Inherit standard tools and features of Debian Linux

§ Accelerated customization on Cumulus Linux for End Users

Poll Question #2

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Open Networking for the Modern DC Architecture Cumulus® Linux® is the first, true Linux OS for data center networking. It brings the full power of Linux on networking hardware by leveraging existing Linux networking packages and creating a platform to empower an Open Ecosystem and accelerate innovation.

Choice of Applications Choice of Operating System Choice of Hardware

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Network OS installer discovery and execution §  Like a pre-installed BIOS, PXE, and kickstarter in one §  Implemented through Linux kernel with BusyBox

Donated to the Open Compute Project (OCP) http://www.onie.org

ONIE

Cumulus Linux OS Installation with ONIE

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§ Look for installer (“discover”) §  Locally, e.g. USB if available § Over the network on eth0 •  DHCP, IPv6 neighbor, TFTP

§ Search for file name and execute §  onie-­‐installer-­‐*  

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Cumulus Linux OS image

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▪  Handles network interface dependency using dependency graphs

▪  Uses topological sort to order network interface configurations

▪  Provides options and tools to query and execute interface configuration in dependency order

▪  Built-in devices support ifupdown2 implicitly recognizes vlan and physical interfaces that appear as dependents and does the required minimal configuration to get them up: No need to specify `iface swp1.1000` in the example

Network Interface Dependency

Why Puppet & Cumulus Networks ?

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Demo Video – Topology Setup

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Next Steps

Resources available at http://cumulusnetworks.com/solutions/networking-automation/puppet/

§  Solution Center §  Solution Brief §  Demo Videos §  Blog Posts §  Knowledge Base Articles §  User-Guides

Other Tools §  Ifupdown2

§  https://github.com/CumulusNetworks/ifupdown2

§  PTM §  https://github.com/

CumulusNetworks/ptm

Cumulus Open Source §  http://

oss.cumulusnetworks.com

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© 2014 Cumulus Networks. Cumulus Networks, the Cumulus Networks Logo, and Cumulus Linux are trademarks or registered trademarks of Cumulus Networks, Inc. or its affiliates in the U.S. and other countries. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners. The registered trademark Linux® is used pursuant to a sublicense from LMI, the exclusive licensee of Linus Torvalds, owner of the mark on a world-wide basis.

§ Thank You!

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Appendix

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Case Studies

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Additional Details

June 19th 2014