Automating your physical data center with RackHD

[clintkitson]

RackHD is an open source project started with the goal of providing a consistent and clear mechanism to perform hardware inventory and firmware upgrades to commodity white-box servers. With an event-based workflow engine that interacts with existing protocols and mechanisms such as PXE, BMC, and IPMI it can create workflows of tasks, boot scripts, and interactions to achieve full system automation. Come see it in action in this session showing useful workflows integrating with Docker, OpenStack, and Cloud Foundry.

[kacole2]

@heckj getting together an outline for our talk. let me know what you think of this and if there is more to add/remove

Automating your physical data center with RackHD

Speakers:

• Kenny Coleman - {EMC} Code
• Joseph Heck - RackHD

Intro: 1-5 minutes

• Who are the speakers
• Backgrounds of each speaker

Intro to RackHD: 15 minutes

• What is RackHD?
• What language is it written in and why?
• Why is it important?
• Nomenclature. Tasks, workflows, graphs, SKUs, etc
• What can it do, in-depth? Servers, Storage, Networking, PXE, BMC, IPMI, kickstart scripts, hardware inventory, firmware upgrades.
• what's the process workflow?

Why OSS?: 5 minutes

• Differences between OSS version and OnRack at an in-depth level
• What does OSS advantage give you? (docker)

What's been done already? Demos: 5-10 minutes

• Docker Machine integration
• Open Stack
• Cloud Foundry

Futures: 5 minutes

• https://github.com/RackHD/specs
• highlight some of the big ones from Specs

How to get started: 1-5 minutes

• Vagrant
• Docker
• Examples all from the demos can be found at XYZ links

How to get in contact: 1 minute

• Slack

Key Takaways Summary: 1 minute

[clintkitson]

Demo idea #34

[clintkitson]

Need to talk about kubernetes role for a plugin with RackHD.

[kacole2]

riiigghhhtttt.....