Ingo Jochim's talk from the CloudStack EU User Group meetup, Nov 24 2016

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FAST SAP SYSTEM
PROVISIONING BASED ON
CLOUDSTACK
Consulting. Support. Integrated Solutions.Results
in time.

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Ingo Jochim
Service Lead BIT.Cloud
Team Lead „Cloud Implementation“
CloudStack user since 2014
Email: ingo.jochim@bitgroup.de
Web: bitcloud.cloud (just launched)
Twitter: @ingojochim
Events: German CloudStack usergroup meetup
6th of Dezember 2016 in Berlin (next one in Dresden)
ABOUT ME
About
Me

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ABOUT BIT.GROUP GMBH
About
BIT.Gro
up
GmbH
Optimization of SAP
operation and
implementation of
automation scenarios
IT Consulting
Preventive and reactive
problem solving as well as
support in day-to-day
business
Service & Support
Implementation of
individual
requirements with SAP
solutions
Development
Planning, provision and
optimization of operator
models
Infrastructure Management

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implementation / operation of large cloud environments
tool development
BIT.Cloud: private / public cloud
ABOUT BIT.GROUP GMBH
About
BIT.Gro
up
GmbH
Infrastructure Management

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• Focus
• Challenge
• Technologies
• Apache CloudStack
• Ceph Storage
• Ansible
• What is automated?
• What do we build? – Demo
• SAP automated installation
AGENDA
Agenda

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• High dynamic infrastructure landscapes
• Fast deployment
• Infrastructure setup
• Application setup
• Make it ready for operations (backup, monitoring)
FOCUS
Focus

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• Many steps and teams needed to set up a SAP system
• network team
• server management
• SAP basis
• application management
• Usual workflow with tickets from team to team
• Why not automate this into a single process?
CHALLENGE
Challen
ge

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INFRASTRUCTURE
Central Services
Customer/Project A
Customer/Project B
Customer/Project C

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CENTRAL SERVICES
Central
‚Service
s
• CloudStack
• Automation Ansible
• LDAP
• DNS
• Monitoring check_mk
• Version Control git
• Proxy
• Backup

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CUSTOMER NETWORK
Custom
er
Networ
k
Per Customer or Project
LDAP
Monitoring
Backup
Automation
Versionsverwaltung

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TECHNOLOGIES
Technol
ogies
Cloud Management:
Storage:
Automation:
Monitoring:
Server -Virtualization:

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APACHE CLOUDSTACK
ACS
• ACS is a cloud computing software
• creating, managing and deploying infrastructure cloud services
• manage
• physical and virtual servers
• storage
• network
• OpenSource

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APACHE CLOUDSTACK @ BIT
ACS@
BIT
• Why are we using CloudStack?
• evaluated a few cloud management platforms
• scope: free, easy to use, multi-tenancy also for administration
• Learned lessons:
• works for small operation teams
• easy to upgrade – in 30 minutes
• active community

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CEPH STORAGE
Ceph
• Distributed storage system
• Run‘s on commodity hardware
• Selfhealing
• OpenSource
• CloudStack integration
• Lessons learned:
• previous storage system was too unflexible
• cloud environments need to scale online
• no downtime for maintenance
• hard disk failure over easter weekend – monitoring works, disk
change later

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CEPH STORAGE
Ceph
….

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ANSIBLE
Ansible
• Orchestration, configuration and administration
• Evaluated a few configuration management systems
• Why did we choose ansible?
• easy to use and easy to get started
• but powerful
• good to for tasks on multiple systems
• many CloudStack modules
• OpenSource

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ANSIBLE PLAYBOOK RUNNING
playboo
k

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WHAT DO WE BUILD?
Build
SAP PI
(Process Integration)
Orchestration VM
- LDAP
- git
- ansible
- Check_mk
- Backup

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WHAT IS AUTOMATED?
Automa
tion list
• Virtual machines
• Storage
• Filesystem layout, folder structure
• security, central auth, users, groups
• central services: LDAP, git, ansible, monitoring, backup
• Firewall
• OS settings for application
• application installation

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LET’S BUILD IT
Demo
Part I

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SAP INSTALLATION AUTOMATION
SAP
• Complex installations in many variations
• Time consuming – large install files
• Pro and Con – Templates vs. Scripting
• Templates:
• faster to deploy
• much effort to maintain
• unflexible, high storage usage
• Automation:
• very adaptive
• installation takes time
• XML file based unattended automation replace wizard
• Adaption of XML with hostname, SID, …

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BACK TO DEMO
Demo
Part II
100 %

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SUMMARY
Summa
ry
• Short installation time by automation of full stack
• Standardized landscapes – consistent configurations
• Reduced operations effort
• Higher quality
• Lessons learned
• different worlds
• different automation

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QUESTIONS
Questio
ns
Questions ?

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F +49 3591 5253-9999
info@bitgroup.de
Contact
Ingo Jochim
Senior Support Consultant
T +49 3591 5253-1281
ingo.jochim@bitgroup.de
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