Earlier this month, I spoke at ContainerDays, part of the excellent DevOpsDays series of conferences -- this one in lovely Portland, Oregon. I gave a live demo of Kubernetes running directly on bare metal. I was running it on an 11-node Ubuntu Orange Box -- but I used the exact same tools Canonical's world class consulting team uses to deploy Kubernetes onto racks of physical machines. You see, the ability to run Kubernetes on bare metal, behind your firewall is essential to the yin-yang duality of Cloud Native computing. Sometimes, what you need is actually a Native Cloud. Deploying Kubernetes into virtual machines in the cloud is rather easy, straightforward, with dozens of tools now that can handle that. But there's only one tool today, that can deploy the exact same Kubernetes to AWS, Azure, GCE, as well as VMware, OpenStack, and bare metal machines. That tools is conjure-up, which acts as a command line front end to several essential Ubuntu tools: MAAS, LXD, and Juju. I don't know if the presentation was recorded, but I'm happy to share with you my slides for download, and embedded here below. There are a few screenshots within that help convey the demo.

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Bare Metal Kubernetes
More Containers, Less Overhead
#DevOpsDays #CfgMgmtCamp
#ContainerDays #PDX
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August 3, 2017

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Cloud
Native
Native
Cloud

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Public cloud, hosted
K8s is well understood

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But K8s on prem brings
yin yang duality

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demo

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$ conjure-up kubernetes

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Kubernetes represents a
once-in-a-decade paradigm shift

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1980s
1990s
2000s
2010s
Programming
paradigms that win,
define a decade of
technology

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Kubernetes is
democratizing
Cloud Native
methodologies
2020s

12. Kubernetes on Bare Metal:
conjure-up -- front end installer
Juju -- software modeler
LXD -- machine containers
MAAS -- bare metal provisioning

13. conjure-up Front End Installer

14. Software Modeling

15. LXD
➢ Ultra fast “vm-lite” guests (bare metal speed)
➢ Any distribution of Linux - e.g. Ubuntu, CentOS
➢ Starts in less than 1 second
➢ 15x density of KVM or ESX for idle workloads
host A
nova-lxd lxc cli
lxdkernel
other restful apps
lxc
machine
LXD REST API
host B
lxc
machine
lxdkernel
host C host D host ...
lxc
machine
lxc
machine
lxc
machine
lxdkernel lxdkernel lxdkernel
Machine Containers

16. Node
Discovery
HW inventory
BMC
BIOS & firmware
Boot process
OS Deployment
Diskless / Ephemeral
Storage & Networking
Decommissioning
Network
DNS, NTP & more
Topology & addressing
L2 & L3 config
Infrastructure
PDUs
Switches & routers
Storage appliances
PXE & TFTP
lshw
freeipmi
fwupd
BIOS & UEFI
curtin
iSCSI
cloud-init
NIST-wipe
bind, ntpd
IPAM
DHCP
DCIM
OpenFlow
SNMP MIBs
Vendor stuff
maas.io Bare Metal Provisioning

17. MAAS
The bare metal API
Inventory. Commission. Deploy.
IP, DHCP, DNS, PXE, IPMI
ready to roll

18. The SysAdmin’s Toolbelt
Node
Discovery
HW inventory
BMC
BIOS & firmware
Boot process
OS Deployment
Diskless / Ephemeral
Storage & Networking
Decommissioning
Network
DNS, NTP & more
Topology & addressing
L2 & L3 config
Infrastructure
PDUs
Switches & routers
Storage appliances
PXE & TFTP
lshw
freeipmi
fwupd
BIOS & UEFI
curtin
iSCSI
cloud-init
NIST-wipe
bind, ntpd
IPAM
DHCP
DCIM
OpenFlow
SNMP MIBs
Vendor stuff

19. Windows
Custom images
Ubuntu, RHEL, SUSE
maas.io

20. 4 Web interface and REST API
1 Automated physical provisioning
2 Dynamic allocation to workloads
3 IP Address Management (IPAM)
5 Windows, Linux OS install
maas.io

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back to demo

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