Intro to Crowbar

30 minute introduction of Crowbar (https://github.com/crowbar) to internal audience.

Transcript

1. Intro to Crowbar Adam Spiers <aspiers@suse.com> James Tan <jatan@suse.com> Ralf Haferkamp <rhafer@suse.com>
2. 2 Agenda • Brief history of Crowbar • Architecture overview • Quick demo • What's new in 2.0? • Q&A
3. What is Crowbar?
7. crowbar
9. 11 What is Crowbar? • Crowbar is a platform for server provisioning and deployment from bare metal. • It provides server discovery, firmware upgrades, and operating system installation using PXE Boot. • It deploys applications on top of functioning operating systems using Chef.
11. barclamp
12. sledge hammer
13. sledge hammer jig
14. 16 Admin Node Admin Node Jig Barclamp Barclamp Barclamp Crowbar (Rails) web UI DB API DNS PXE / TFTP DHCP autoyast Chef / Puppet / ... PXE Boot Crowbar architecture Client Node Client Node App App Network config Network config Operating system Hardware discovery via sledgehammer image
15. 17 Crowbar state machine
16. Demo
17. What's new in 2.0?
19. knife http://crowbar.github.com/
20. knife https://github.com/crowbar
21. knife https://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Crowbar
22. OpenStack Chef + Crowbar aggregated
24. vs
26. knife https://travis-ci.org/crowbar/travis-ci-crowbar_framework
27. knife http://susestudio.com/a/n0rKOx/crowbar-dev
28. Q&A
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