Let's Automate all the things
Ansible Paris Meetup, 28 Mars 2017
Amine Ben Asker
Software Engineer
Automation enthusiast
@asker_amine
yurilz.com
aka yurilz
Why Automate ?
Why Automate ?
Faster repairs
Faster action
Time saving
Paging a human is a quite expensive use of an engineer's time
Why Monitor ?
Analyzing long-term trends
Comparing overtime or experiment groups
Building dashboards
"If you can't monitor a service, you don't know what's happening, and if you're blind to what's happening, you can't be reliable" SRE, Google
Automation
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Monitoring
Avoid "the someone" to stare at a screen to watch for problems
How ?
Zabbix
Zabbix is an open source distributed monitoring software that monitors numerous parameters of a network and the health and integrity of servers.
Ansible
[Ansible.com : Edited]
A basic Zabbix distributed architecture
Simple Incident workflow
Improved workflow
ZABBAlike
With ZABBAlike, Zabbix is able to automatically fix/scale itself
Zabbix Ansible Like
Playbook : Create a zabbix proxy
pre_tasks:
- copy:
src: "{{ zabbix_local_proxy_rpm }}" ...
roles:
- { role: geerlingguy.mysql }
- { role: amine.zabbalike-Installproxy }
tasks:
- name: Link the Zabbix proxy to the Core
local_action:
module: zabbix_proxy
Playbook : fix a zabbix server
No longer be the robot, Invent the robot
Thanks
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