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    Puppet at Spacex: How To Stay Sane, While Sending Rockets Into Space

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    This document summarizes how Puppet is used at SpaceX to automate server configuration and deployment. It discusses: 1) How Puppet helped SpaceX scale their operations by 10x after initially bootstrapping their infrastructure using scripts. 2) Their deployment process where new servers install packages from a local mirror, have configurations pushed by Puppet, and register with the Puppet server. 3) Future plans to use TheForeman for additional automation of DHCP, DNS, and PXE services and to build Nagios monitoring configurations with Puppet.

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    Puppet at Spacex: How To Stay Sane, While Sending Rockets Into Space

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    This document summarizes how Puppet is used at SpaceX to automate server configuration and deployment. It discusses: 1) How Puppet helped SpaceX scale their operations by 10x after initially bootstrapping their infrastructure using scripts. 2) Their deployment process where new servers install packages from a local mirror, have configurations pushed by Puppet, and register with the Puppet server. 3) Future plans to use TheForeman for additional automation of DHCP, DNS, and PXE services and to build Nagios monitoring configurations with Puppet.

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    This document summarizes how Puppet is used at SpaceX to automate server configuration and deployment. It discusses: 1) How Puppet helped SpaceX scale their operations by 10x after initially bootstrapping their infrastructure using scripts. 2) Their deployment process where new servers install packages from a local mirror, have configurations pushed by Puppet, and register with the Puppet server. 3) Future plans to use TheForeman for additional automation of DHCP, DNS, and PXE services and to build Nagios monitoring configurations with Puppet.

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    This document summarizes how Puppet is used at SpaceX to automate server configuration and deployment. It discusses: 1) How Puppet helped SpaceX scale their operations by 10x after initially bootstrapping their infrastructure using scripts. 2) Their deployment process where new servers install packages from a local mirror, have configurations pushed by Puppet, and register with the Puppet server. 3) Future plans to use TheForeman for additional automation of DHCP, DNS, and PXE services and to build Nagios monitoring configurations with Puppet.

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    Puppet at SpaceX

    How to stay sane, while sending rockets into space

    Whos this guy anyway?


    !! Linux system admin !! Came from the video game industry !! Started at SpaceX about 9 month ago !! Linux System Engineer

    SpaceX
    !! !! !! !!
    Rocket Company First private company to send a vehicle to LEO AND recover the vehicle Founded in 2002 !! Falcon1, Falcon 9, Dragon

    Puppet
    !! How it happened
    !! Before Scale 10x !! After Scale 10x

    Bootstrapping
    !! What we have
    !! !! !! !! !!
    Debian/Ubuntu Kerberos (windows KDC/Active Directory) LDAP (windows LDAP/Active Directory) Apt mirror (with debian squeeze/ubuntu LTS) Tons of scripts!

    Deployment
    !! Using existing scripts and replacing them with
    puppet. !! Install packages from our local repo !! Push configs with puppet !! Using exec (in a couple of places only) to fix a
    couple of things.

    !! This simplified things a lot for us

    Where are we at now?


    !! Plug desktop/server in (power/network/keyboard/
    video) !! Boot off the network (pxe) !! Pick on pxe menu what you want to install !! We have a number of presets we use !! Install starts and asks the user for hostname !! Machine uses a pre-seed file to setup stuff initially !! Installs puppet as part of that pre-seed from our local
    mirror !! Generate and registers with puppet server !! (login on server and sign cert) !! And wait for it! Were DONE!

    Cool stuff to come


    !! Puppet server infrastructure overview
    !! TheForeman
    !! Really nice and easy to setup !! Has proxies for handling stuff with DHCP/DNS/PXE
    automation (were planning on using this, and its a little more difficult for us, since that part of the infrastructure is windows based)

    !! Nagios monitoring
    !! Host lists/services/dependencies built by puppet !! HPC !! We have a compute cluster that we are starting to rebuild
    using puppet for automation and validation (test cluster with a couple of nodes, validate config, and push to production)

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