Stack
See also Server, Distros, Box, BOA, E-mail#Server, Platforms
to sort out big time
General
- Leanstack.io See what the best startups in the world are using
Hardware
Open Compute
- http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/facebook-open-sources-its-server-data-center-designs-hardware-fallout-to-follow/47045
- http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/07/how-facebook-is-killing-the-hardware-business-as-we-know-it/
- http://www.zdnet.com/open-compute-does-the-data-center-have-an-open-future-7000013012/
Clustering
- http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Cluster-HOWTO.html
- https://computing.llnl.gov/tutorials/linux_clusters/
- http://www.linuxvirtualserver.org/
- http://lcmc.sourceforge.net/
- http://helmer.sfe.se/
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_Virtual_Machine
Virtualisation
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_machines
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popek_and_Goldberg_virtualization_requirements
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypervisor
Hardware level
QEMU
- http://virt-manager.org/
- http://gna.org/projects/qemulaunch
- http://qtemu.org/
- http://sourceforge.net/projects/aqemu/
- https://wiki.gnome.org/action/show/Apps/Boxes?action=show&redirect=Boxes
KVM
- KVM (for Kernel-based Virtual Machine) is a full virtualization solution for Linux on x86 hardware containing virtualization extensions (Intel VT or AMD-V). It consists of a loadable kernel module, kvm.ko, that provides the core virtualization infrastructure and a processor specific module, kvm-intel.ko or kvm-amd.ko. KVM also requires a modified QEMU although work is underway to get the required changes upstream. Using KVM, one can run multiple virtual machines running unmodified Linux or Windows images. Each virtual machine has private virtualized hardware: a network card, disk, graphics adapter, etc.
grep -E "(vmx|svm)" --color=always /proc/cpuinfo
If nothing is displayed after running that command, then your processor does not support hardware virtualization, and you will not be able to use KVM.
Xen
- Xen Hypervisor is an open source virtualization platform that powers the world's largest clouds in production and is the foundation of many commercial products. Xen powers public clouds such as Amazon Web Services, Rackspace Public Cloud and many others. Examples of Xen based server products include Huawei UVP, Oracle VM and XenServer. Examples of client products and appliances include QubesOS, XenClient and Netscaler. Xen is 9 years old, mature and its stability and versatility is second to none.
- http://www.asplund.nu/xencluster/xen-cluster-howto.html
- http://onlamp.com/onlamp/2008/02/05/using-xen-for-high-availabilty-clusters.html
- http://www.tanasi.it/991-making-clusters-with-xen-and-heartbeat.html
VirtualBox
VirtualBox config;
- Enable host Linux modules: vboxnetflt and vboxnetadp
- Enable host-only adapter 'virtualbox0' in VB Preferences > Network if not previously enabled, then select in guest preferences
- Keep VM names lowercase and no spaces for easier command-line stuff
Install guest additions for mouse, etc.
Provisioning VirtualBoxes for local dev work;
- Vagrant - VirtualBox provisioning with Puppet, etc.
Vargrant
- Vagrant uses Oracle’s VirtualBox to build configurable, lightweight, and portable virtual machines dynamically. The first couple pages serve to introduce you to Vagrant and what it has to offer while the rest of the guide is a technical walkthrough for building a fully functional web development environment. The getting started guide concludes by explaining how to package the newly created vagrant environment so other developers can get up and running in just a couple commands.
vagrant package --vagrantfile Vagrantfile.pkg --include README.txt stored in ~/.vagrant.d/boxes vagrant box add lucid32 http://files.vagrantup.com/lucid32.box vagrant box remove lucid32 vagrant box list
- Veewee is a tool for easily (and repeatedly) building custom Vagrant base boxes, KVMs, and virtual machine images.
- PuPHPet - A simple GUI to set up virtual machines for PHP Web development.
Other
Operating system level
- Operating system-level virtualization is a server virtualization method where the kernel of an operating system allows for multiple isolated user-space instances, instead of just one. Such instances (often called containers, VEs, VPSs or jails) may look and feel like a real server, from the point of view of its owner. On Unix systems, this technology can be thought of as an advanced implementation of the standard chroot mechanism. In addition to isolation mechanisms, the kernel often provides resource management features to limit the impact of one container's activities on the other containers.
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_platform_virtual_machines
- Containers, Not Virtual Machines, Are the Future Cloud [2]
- http://blog.appfog.com/docker-and-the-future-of-the-paas-layer/
- http://www.rackspace.com/blog/get-faster-more-affordable-cloud-applications-with-os-virtualization-containers/
FreeBSD jail
LinuX Containers
- http://l3net.wordpress.com/2013/08/25/debian-virtualization-lxc-network-isolation/
- http://containerops.org/2013/11/19/lxc-networking/ [4]
- http://techblog.stickyworld.com/just-in-time-staging-environments-using-lxc.html
- lmctfy is the open source version of Google’s container stack, which provides Linux application containers.
- warden - Manages isolated, ephemeral, and resource controlled environments.
- wsh - execute command in a Linux Container through unix socket
Docker
- Docker is an open-source engine which automates the deployment of applications as highly portable, self-sufficient containers which are independent of hardware, language, framework, packaging system and hosting provider. Uses LXC.
- https://github.com/dotcloud/docker
- https://www.dotcloud.com/ - now renamed Docker Inc.
- Docker Index - container search
Setup
sysctl net.ipv4.ip_forward=1 enable network forwarding
net.ipv4.ip_forward=1 persistent network forwarding, goes in /etc/sysctl.d/docker.conf
sudo <path to>/docker -d & start docker in daemon mode sudo systemctl enable docker start docker as service sudo systemctl start docker start on system boot
ls -lah /var/run/docker.sock exists when docker is running
Notes
Add user to docker group to avoid sudo.
Docker isn't screen/tmux friendly due to tty handling. Easy fix is to ssh in to the instance.
sshd probably doesn't start by default. tis in root path.
/usr/sbin/sshd
If you are behind a proxy you can launch docker with this command
sudo HTTP_PROXY=http://youruserproxy:yourpassword@theaddressproxy:theportproxy/ docker -d &
Commands
# Download an ubuntu image docker pull [name]
docker run [OPTIONS] IMAGE[:TAG] [COMMAND] [ARG...] docker run ubuntu uname -a # Run an interactive shell in the ubuntu image, # allocate a tty, attach stdin and stdout # To detach the tty without exiting the shell, # use the escape sequence Ctrl-p + Ctrl-q docker run -i -t ubuntu /bin/bash # Bind TCP port 8080 of the container to TCP port 80 on 127.0.0.1 of the host machine. docker run -p 127.0.0.1:80:8080 <image> <cmd> # Bind TCP port 8080 of the container to a dynamically allocated TCP port on 127.0.0.1 of the host machine. docker run -p 127.0.0.1::8080 <image> <cmd> # Bind TCP port 8080 of the container to TCP port 80 on all available interfaces of the host machine. docker run -p 80:8080 <image> <cmd> # Bind TCP port 8080 of the container to a dynamically allocated TCP port on all available interfaces of the host machine. docker run -p 8080 <image> <cmd>
# List your containers docker images # Listing all running containers docker ps
Running docker command returns container ID
# run a process which echoes 'hello world' in every second CONTAINER_ID=$(sudo docker run -d ubuntu /bin/sh -c "while true; do echo hello world; sleep 1; done") # attach the console to the container docker attach $CONTAINER_ID # stop an active container docker stop $CONTAINER_ID
# kill an active container docker kill $CONTAINER_ID
# Commit your container to a new named image docker commit <container_id> <some_name>
Guides
- http://www.themiddlewareman.org/2013/09/27/docker-red-hat-openshift-tiping-point-open-paas/
- http://www.docker.io/static/img/about/docker_vm.jpg
- http://www.dockerbook.com/
- http://blog.docker.io/2013/07/docker-desktop-your-desktop-over-ssh-running-inside-of-a-docker-container/
- http://blog.docker.io/2013/07/docker-projects-from-the-docker-community/
- http://blog.docker.io/2013/07/effortless-monitoring-with-collectd-graphite-and-docker/
- http://blog.docker.io/2013/08/introducing-an-interactive-docker-tutorial/
- http://blog.docker.io/2013/08/containers-docker-how-secure-are-they/
- How To Build A 2-Container App with Docker
- http://blog.docker.io/2013/06/14-great-tutorials-on-docker/
- http://crosbymichael.com/dockerfile-deep-dive.html
- Docker and GitHub: Continuous Deployment Made Simple - with linode
- http://3ofcoins.net/2013/09/22/flat-docker-images/
- Docker : The Good Parts [5]
- http://robknight.org.uk/blog/2013/05/drupal-on-docker/
- http://blog.docker.io/2013/09/docker-joyent-openvpn-bliss/
Extra
- dockerlite lets you run Linux apps in lightweight, isolated environments, using LXC (Linux Containers). Using BTRFS snapshots, dockerlite can save the state of a given environment in a frozen "image", and later, create more environments ("containers") out of that image.
- DockerUI is a web interface to interact with the Remote API. The goal is to provide a pure client side implementation so it is effortless to connect and manage docker.
- Flynn simplifies deploying and maintaining applications. Instead of using complex configuration management systems, Flynn allows self-serve management of containerized deployments, making life easier for ops and developers. [7]
- boot2docker is a lightweight Linux distribution based on Tiny Core Linux made specifically to run Docker containers. It runs completely from RAM, weights ~38mb and boots in ~5-6s (YMMV).
- Docker Desktop - Dockerfile that creates a docker image which, once executed, creates a container that runs X11 and SSH services. The ssh is used to forward X11 and provide you encrypted data communication between the docker container and your local machine. Xpra + Xephyr allows to display the applications running inside of the container such as Firefox, LibreOffice, xterm, etc. with recovery connection capabilities.
- Autodock is a docker automation tool. It automatically sorts servers in your Docker cluster by lowest load. It then distributes the containers you want to create among them. After bootstrapping the containers with Paramiko and Salt it saves this information to the ETCD cluster. Autodock was designed to use saltstack and etcd for configuration management and replication. [8]
Linux-VServer
- Linux-VServer provides virtualization for GNU/Linux systems. This is accomplished by kernel level isolation. It allows to run multiple virtual units at once. Those units are sufficiently isolated to guarantee the required security, but utilize available resources efficiently, as they run on the same kernel.
OpenVZ
- OpenVZ is container-based virtualization for Linux. OpenVZ creates multiple secure, isolated Linux containers (otherwise known as VEs or VPSs) on a single physical server enabling better server utilization and ensuring that applications do not conflict. Each container performs and executes exactly like a stand-alone server; a container can be rebooted independently and have root access, users, IP addresses, memory, processes, files, applications, system libraries and configuration files.
CoreOS
- CoreOS is Linux for the container world. Linux kernel + systemd. That's about it. CoreOS has just enough bits to run containers, but does not ship a package manager itself. In fact, the root partition is completely read-only, to guarantee consistency and make updates reliable. Use docker as a package manager to build and push your app. The primitive of an application is a container, not a one-off package. Build containers using docker, by hand, or however you see fit! [11]
Lguest
Solaris Containers / Zones
Desktop level
Virtual machines
- http://bitnami.com/stacks
- http://wiki.bitnami.com/Virtual_Appliances_Quick_Start_Guide
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitnami
- Packer is a tool for creating identical machine images for multiple platforms from a single source configuration.
- OVF? OVA? VMDK? – File Formats and Tools for Virtualization
- Converting a virtual disk image: VDI or VMDK to an ISO you can distribute
- http://fds-team.de/cms/articles/2013-12/use-a-real-windows-7-partition-in-virtualbox-kvm-vmware-player-u.html [12]
Orchestration
Juju
- Juju enables you to use Charms to deploy your application architectures to EC2, OpenStack, Azure your data center and even your own Ubuntu based laptop. Moving between environments is simple giving you the flexibility to switch hosts whenever you want — for free.
- http://www.slideshare.net/enovance/ubuntu-cloud-juju
- http://marcoceppi.com/2012/04/deploying-omg-ubuntu-to-the-cloud-with-juju/
Eucalyptus
- Eucalyptus is open source software for building AWS-compatible private clouds.
- https://github.com/eucalyptus/eucalyptus/wiki
Other
Management
OpenStack
- OpenStack is a cloud operating system that controls large pools of compute, storage, and networking resources throughout a datacenter, all managed through a dashboard that gives administrators control while empowering their users to provision resources through a web interface.
- Nova is the project name for OpenStack Compute, a cloud computing fabric controller, the main part of an IaaS system. Individuals and organizations can use Nova to host and manage their own cloud computing systems. Nova originated as a project out of NASA Ames Research Laboratory.
- Glance provides services for discovering, registering, and retrieving virtual machine images. Glance has a RESTful API that allows querying of VM image metadata as well as retrieval of the actual image.
- Swift is a highly available, distributed, eventually consistent object/blob store. Organizations can use Swift to store lots of data efficiently, safely, and cheaply.
- Cinder provides an infrastructure for managing volumes in OpenStack. It was originally a Nova component called nova-volume, but has become an independent project since the Folsom release.
- Neutron (was Quantum) provides "networking as a service" between interface devices (e.g., vNICs) managed by other Openstack services (e.g., nova).
- Keystone is the identity service used by OpenStack for authentication (authN) and high-level authorization (authZ). It currently supports token-based authN and user-service authorization. It has recently been rearchitected to allow for expansion to support proxying external services and AuthN/AuthZ mechanisms such as oAuth, SAML and openID in future versions.
- YouTube: Shmoocon 2013: Openstack Security Brief
- http://blog.docker.io/2013/06/openstack-docker-manage-linux-containers-with-nova/
- http://ibuildthecloud.tumblr.com/post/55632704038/the-honest-dangers-of-openstack-winning
OpenNebula
- OpenNebula.org is an open-source project developing the industry standard solution for building and managing virtualized enterprise data centers and enterprise private clouds.
- OpenNebula is an open-source cloud computing toolkit for managing heterogeneous distributed data center infrastructures.
Other
- Apache Mesos allows you to create a highly-available and scalable cluster on your existing hardware.
PaaS
See also Hosting#PaaS
OpenShift
Cloud Foundry
Cocaine
Provision and configuration
- Puppet or Chef? - 2012-10-28 [13]
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orchestration_(computing)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Service-oriented_architecture
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Converged_infrastructure
See also *nix#Management
Puppet
- Puppet Labs
- http://puppetlabs.com/puppet/what-is-puppet
- Puppet Master - Central management daemon.
- Puppet Agent - Runs on each managed node.
- Puppet Apply - For local use.
- http://docs.puppetlabs.com/guides/tools.html etc.
- Puppet Wiki: Core Types Cheat Sheet
- Puppet Wiki: Simple Text edits
- Ubuntu puppet info
- AUR: puppet
- AUR: puppet dashboard
apt-get install puppet puppetmaster facter rubygems puppet-module
- http://blog.shanemeyers.com/2010/09/14/installing-wordpress-via-puppet/
- https://github.com/jonhadfield/puppet-wordpress
Foreman
Boxen
Chef
Salt
- Salt is a configuration management system, capable of maintaining remote nodes in defined states (for example, ensuring that specific packages are installed and specific services are running), a distributed remote execution system used to execute commands and query data on remote nodes, either individually or by arbitrary selection criteria
Foreman
- The Foreman is a complete lifecycle management tool for physical and virtual servers. Through deep integration with configuration management, DHCP, DNS, TFTP, and PXE-based unattended installations, Foreman manages every stage of the lifecycle of your physical or virtual servers. The Foreman provides comprehensive, auditable interaction facilities including a web frontend and robust, RESTful API.
Fabric
- Fabric - Python SSH library
Capistrano
- Capistrano is a utility and framework for executing commands in parallel on multiple remote machines, via SSH. It uses a simple DSL (borrowed in part from Rake) that allows you to define tasks, which may be applied to machines in certain roles. It also supports tunneling connections via some gateway machine to allow operations to be performed behind VPN's and firewalls. Capistrano was originally designed to simplify and automate deployment of web applications to distributed environments, and originally came bundled with a set of tasks designed for deploying Rails applications.
CFEngine
Synapse
- Synapse enables you to remotely manage a large number of hosts. It brings together features of Configuration Management and Orchestration in a lightweight framework. Written in Python and using AMQP for messaging between the nodes.
Archipel
- Archipel is an Open Source project that aims to bring push notifications to virtualization orchestration using XMPP.
Ubuntu Orchestra
Ansible
- Ansible is a radically simple IT orchestration engine that makes your applications and systems easier to deploy. Avoid writing scripts or custom code to deploy and update your applications— automate in a language that approaches plain English, using SSH, with no agents to install on remote systems.
- http://devopsu.com/blog/ansible-vs-shell-scripts/ [16]
- http://devo.ps/blog/2013/09/25/vagrant-docker-and-ansible-wtf.html
Other
- https://github.com/gerhard/deliver Pure bash deployment tool with customisable strategies.
- Slaughter - The goal of this project is to have a lightweight system which will allow the control and manipulation of multiple systems.
- Linode StackScripts - Bash Library
Continuous process
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuous_design
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuous_integration
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuous_delivery
"Continuous Integration is a software development practice where members of a team integrate their work frequently, usually each person integrates at least daily - leading to multiple integrations per day. Each integration is verified by an automated build (including test) to detect integration errors as quickly as possible. Many teams find that this approach leads to significantly reduced integration problems and allows a team to develop cohesive software more rapidly."
Jenkins
- Jenkins CI is the leading open-source continuous integration server. Built with Java, it provides over 400 plugins to support building and testing virtually any project.
StriderCD
- Strider is an Open Source Continuous Deployment / Continuous Integration platform. It is written in Node.JS / JavaScript and uses MongoDB as a backing store. BSD license. A focus on Continuous Deployment rather than just Continuous Integration: Designed to be easy to install & setup. Deployable & usable on Heroku free plan. Intended for deployment on private infrastructure. An emphasis on extensibility. Plugins are powerful, easy to write and simple to install. Out-of-the-box support for projects written in Node.JS, Python (generic and Django/Pyramid) and Selenium/Sauce Labs tests. Commercial support, consulting & hosting available
Git based
Services
- http://bytemark.co.uk/hosting/symbiosis Symbiosis comes as standard with all new Bytemark servers, so if you're a recent customer or have re-imaged your system recently, it's ready to go. You can easily host PHP, Perl/CGI, htaccess files and MySQL, including any custom modules and settings that you might need. You have root access, so you don't need to ask permission to host new domains, different PHP settings, or create a database. You can even host any other Linux technology such as Java, Rails or Erlang. you can host any number of mailboxes under a domain, including forwarders, IMAP/POP3 boxes and autoresponders. There is a simple local anti-spam service based on Spamassassin, but if you need managed filtering you can quickly elect to pass your email through our anti-spam service.
Testing
to sort
- Centmin Mod is for installation on CentOS only and written by George Liu (eva2000) with the addition of a shell menu based installer (shown on the right). Centmin Mod shell based menu allows you to do basic Nginx & PHP related management including upgrading or downgrading Nginx & PHP or setting up Nginx vhosts.
- Ajenti includes dozens of pre-made plugins that let you configure both your OS and server software. List of supported software includes Apache, BIND9, Cron, CTDB, DHCPD, NFSD, Iptables, Munin, MySQL, Netatalk, NGINX, PostgreSQL, Samba, lm-sensors, Squid 3, Supervisor.
- Apache Mesos is a cluster manager that provides efficient resource isolation and sharing across distributed applications, or frameworks. It can run Hadoop, MPI, Hypertable, Spark, and other applications on a dynamically shared pool of nodes.
- https://github.com/mesosphere/marathon Mesos framework for long running services
Tasksel
other tasks
- firewall ports
- services and daemons..