DevOps Automation Cookbook

DevOps Automation Cookbook

By : Michael Duffy

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DevOps Automation Cookbook

By: Michael Duffy

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Overview of this book

There has been a recent explosion in tools that allow you to redefine the delivery of infrastructure and applications, using a combination of automation and testing to deliver continuous deployment. DevOps has garnered interest from every quarter, and is rapidly being recognized as a radical shift, as large as the Agile movement for the delivery of software. This book takes a collection of some of the coolest software available today and shows you how to use it to create impressive changes to the way you deliver applications and software. It tackles the plethora of tools that are now available to enable organizations to take advantage of the automation, monitoring, and configuration management techniques that define a DevOps-driven infrastructure. Starting off with the fundamental command-line tools that every DevOps enthusiast must know, this book will guide you through the implementation of the Ansible tool to help you facilitate automation and perform diverse tasks. You will explore how to build hosts automatically with the creation of Apt mirrors and interactive pre-seeds, which are of the utmost importance for Ubuntu automation. You will also delve into the concept of virtualization and creating and manipulating guests with ESXi. Following this, you will venture into the application of Docker; learn how to install, run, network, and restore Docker containers; and also learn how to build containers in Jenkins and deploy apps using a combination of Ansible, Docker, and Jenkins. You will also discover how to filter data with Grafana and the usage of InfluxDB along with unconventional log management. Finally, you will get acquainted with cloud infrastructure, employing the Heroku and Amazon AWS platforms. By tackling real-world issues, this book will guide you through a huge variety of tools, giving new users the ability to get up and running and offering advanced users some interesting recipes that may help with existing issues.

DevOps Automation Cookbook

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

www.PacktPub.com

Preface

Free Chapter

Basic Command Line Tools

Introduction

Controlling network interfaces

Monitoring network details with the IP command

Monitoring connections using the ss command

Gathering basic OS statistics

Viewing historical resource usage with SAR

Installing and configuring a Git client

Creating an SSH key for Git

Using ssh-copy-id to copy keys

Creating a new Git repository

Cloning an existing Git repository

Checking changes into a Git repository

Pushing changes to a Git remote

Creating a Git branch

Ad Hoc Tasks with Ansible

Introduction

Installing an Ansible control node on Ubuntu

Installing an Ansible control node on CentOS

Creating an Ansible inventory

Using the raw module to install python-simplejson

Installing packages with Ansible

Restarting services using Ansible

Executing freeform commands with Ansible

Managing users with Ansible

Managing SSH keys with Ansible

Automatic Host builds

Introduction

Creating an Apt mirror using aptly

Automated installation using PXE boot and a Preseed file

Automating post-installation tasks

Virtualization with VMware ESXi

Introduction

Installing ESXi

Installing and using the vSphere Client

Allowing SSH access to ESXi

Creating a new guest

Allocating resources to a guest

Using the ESXi command line to start, stop, and destroy guests

Managing command-line snapshots

Tuning the host for guest performance

Automation with Ansible

Introduction

Installing Ansible

Creating a scaffold Playbook

Creating a common role

Creating a webserver using Ansible and Nginx

Creating an application server role using Tomcat and Ansible

Installing MySQL using Ansible

Installing and managing HAProxy with Ansible

Using ServerSpec to test your Playbook

Containerization with Docker

Introduction

Installing Docker

Pulling an image from the public Docker registry

Performing basic Docker operations

Running a container interactively

Creating a Dockerfile

Running a container in detached mode

Saving and restoring a container

Using the host only network

Running a private Docker registry

Managing images with a private registry

Using Jenkins for Continuous Deployment

Introduction

Installing Jenkins

Installing the Git plugin

Installing a Jenkins slave

Creating your first Jenkins job

Building Docker containers using Jenkins

Deploying a Java application to Tomcat with zero downtime using Ansible

Metric Collection with InfluxDB

Introduction

Installing InfluxDB

Creating a new InfluxDB database

Logging events with the InfluxDB REST API

Gathering host statistics with Telegraf

Exploring data with the InfluxDB data explorer

Installing Grafana

Creating dashboards with Grafana

Log Management

Introduction

Centralizing logs with Syslog

Using syslog templates

Managing log rotation with the Logrotate utility

Installing ElasticSearch, Logstash, and Kibana

Importing logs into Elasticsearch with Logstash

Using Kibana queries to explore data

Using Kibana queries to examine data

Monitoring with Sensu

Introduction

Installing a Sensu server

Installing a Sensu client

Installing check prerequisites

Finding community checks

Adding a DNS check

Adding a disk check

Adding a RAM check

Adding a process check

Adding a CPU check

Creating e-mail alerts

Creating SMS alerts

Using Ansible to install Sensu

IAAS with Amazon AWS

Introduction

Signing up for AWS

Setting up IAM

Creating your first security group

Creating your first EC2 host

Using Elastic Load Balancers

Managing DNS with route53

Using Ansible to create EC2 hosts

Application Performance Monitoring with New Relic

Introduction

Signing up for a New Relic account

Installing the New Relic Java agent

Using the performance overview

Locating performance bottlenecks with Transaction Traces

Observing database performance with New Relic

Release performance monitoring with New Relic

Server Monitoring with New Relic

Index

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Viewing historical resource usage with SAR

The tools that we have looked at so far are fantastic to analyze problems that are present now; but what about when you need to look at issues that occurred in the past? For that you can use the System Activity Report (SAR) tool. Using the sar tool, you will be able to look back over a period of time and see how the server has been running.

This recipe will demonstrate how to install and use the sysstat tools; thus, allowing you to examine historical system statistics.

Getting ready

For this recipe, you will need either a Debian or Red Hat based server.

How to do it…

Let's take a look at how to install and use sysstat, also allowing you to examine historical SAR:

Install the sysstat package using the following command for a Debian-based distribution:
```
$ sudo apt-get install sysstat
```
We can also use the following command for a RHEL-based distribution:
```
$ sudo yum install sysstat
```
Edit the /etc/default/sysstat file with your favorite text editor and change the following value from:
```
ENABLED="false"
```
To:
```
ENABLED="true"
```
Restart the sysstat service using the following command:
```
$ sudo service sysstat restart
```
By default, sar stats are collected every 10 minutes. The data is collected using a simple cron job configured within /etc/cron.d/sysstat. This job can be amended to collect the data as frequently as you require.
Use the following command to view basic CPU statistics, including wait times:
```
sar -u
```
This should produce the following output:
Tip
Note that most sar commands can also produce output in real time by adding a duration and repetition, much the same as the vmstat and iostat commands. For instance, sar -u 1 30 will display the basic CPU statistics every second for 30 seconds.
Use the following command to view the available memory statistics:
```
sar -r
```
This should produce an output that looks similar to the following screenshot:
Seeing the IO stats for individual block devices can be helpful when tracking down performance issues. You can use the following command to view these statistics with sar:
```
sar -b
```
This will produce an output similar to the following screenshot:

DevOps Automation Cookbook

By : Michael Duffy

DevOps Automation Cookbook

By: Michael Duffy

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Viewing historical resource usage with SAR

Getting ready

How to do it…

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