Minimal First Machine in the DC
Andy McGuigan
Ansible - Monday, February 1 - 14:00 - Ansible room
Life in the ephemeral physical lab is very different from the modern cloudy IaaS world that a lot of people live in. When you're deploying a cloud, you need tools that assume that there is no cloud that goes before you. Especially when you are trying to recreate the minimal environments that customers may be building clouds in (if you're cloud management tool is supposed to manage DHCP/TFTP/PXE & you're remote to the DC, how do you install that first machine without swearing at the remote KVM console?).
In this talk we'll cover tools & techniques developed for standing up the first machine in a DC with zero-touch provisioning, using Ansible, ansible-provisioning, HP iLO and iso-builder.Slides: https://speakerdeck.com/amcguign/minimal-first-machine-in-the-dc
About Andy McGuigan
Andy is coming to us on behalf of Simon McCartney from HP, so we're sure he's awesome.
He works for the Cloud BU in Hewlett Packard Enterprise, focusing on automating bare-metal installs of HP’s OpenStack distribution using Ansible. In his spare time he mentors at a CoderDojo. His ambition is to install OpenStack on a cluster of Raspberry Pi.