Cloud Work - Overview

Big Picture

The 3 main building blocks are:

1. IDAM Cloud - We provide more specific support for PI that Nibiru doesn't provide OOB.
2. Nibiru - Wraps AWS and provides some basic functionality.
3. AWS - The physical infrastructure that our VMs live on.

Creates and Configures Cloud Infrastructure

• Provisioning VMs - API Nodes, Mongo Nodes, Supporting Infrastructure Nodes
• DNS
• AB Stack
• Load Balancing - ELBs and HAProxy
• Monitoring
• Alerting
• Logging

Tools we rely on

We rely on a lot of different tools, including:

• Fabric
  • A tool written in Python for easing interactions with remote servers.
  • Essentially acts as our CLI for interacting with our Cloud Environment.
  • Interacts with Nibiru via their Python restful client.
• Nibiru
  • An abstraction layer around AWS
  • CRUD ops on VMs
  • CRUD ops on DNS entries
  • CRUD ops on ELBs
  • Applies some default Puppet Modules to our VMs:
    • Zabbix
    • what else?
• Puppet
  • For configuring our VMs with the appropriate resources to act as a particular VM type.
  • Applies Modules such as:
    • MongoDB
    • Tomcat
    • StatsD
    • Thalassa
    • ElasticSearch
    • Graphite
    • HAProxy
    • Logstash
• Zabbix
  • For monitoring, alerting and visualizing information about VMs
• Sensu
• Logstash
• StatsD
• CollectD
• Graphite
• Vagrant