RackHD is the industry's first ever open source, cross-platform and automated deployment tool that can create Docker-ready hosts on bare metal. Learn how to build your own self-healing Docker cloud using integrations from {code} by Dell EMC.

1. Docker for Private Clouds with
RackHD
Aaron Spiegel
{code} Catalyst
@Spiegela
Justin Kenney
RackHD
@justink0

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The building blocks of Modern IT
APPS
PAAS
ORCHESTRATION
VIRTUALIZATION
HARDWAREHARDWARE

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Hardware Operations are Business Critical
Out of Date Firmware
Delayed Projects
Unused Resources
Physical Isolation Requirements

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Cost of Delayed Deployments
Hardware Operations are Business Critical
Time is Money
Day 0 Purchase Retirement
ITAssetValue$
Production

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Many Groups & Domains
No Common Configuration
Manual Processes
Day 1 Problem

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From Purchase Order to Production
Hardware
Stand Up
•Floor Space
•Physical Rack
•Power & Cooling
Infrastructure
Bootstrap
•Network Connections
•Host Configuration
(RAID, BIOS)
•OS Load
•IaaS Stand Up
App Cluster
Creation
•Zookeeper
•Hadoop
•vSphere
•Cloud Foundry
Maintenance
& Operations
•FW Updates
•OS Patches
•Lifecycle

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Reimagine our Expectations
for Bare Metal
Self-Describing & Instrumented
Orchestrated Workflows
Self Service & API Driven
Automation for Day-n Operations
Modern Cloud Experience

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Self-Describing & Instrumented
Orchestrated Workflows
Self Service & API Driven
Automation for Day-n Operations
Modern Cloud Experience
RackHD
Reimagine our Expectations
for Bare Metal

9. What Makes RackHD Different?
Support for On Going Maintenance
Automated Discovery & Instrumentation
Pre-Defined Workflows / Task Graphs
Support for Both Server & Network Gear
Aligned to Open Industry Standard APIs

10. What Makes RackHD Different?
DISCOVERY &
CATALOGING
TELEMETRY &
GENEALOGY
DEVICE
MANAGEMENT
CONFIGURATION PROVISIONING
FIRMWARE
MANAGEMENT
LOGGING ENVIRON-
MENTALS
FAULT
DETECTION
ANALYTICS DATA
RackHD Capabilities

11. RackHD and Dell EMC’s OSS Viewpoint
GLOBAL
COLLABORATION
TRANSPARENCY
INTEGRATIONSCOMMUNITY SMALL
INVESTMENT
FRICTIONLESS
DEVELOPMENT
ATTRACT
TALENT
NO VENDOR
LOCK-IN

12. Application Platform
Cloud Platform
IaaS
Orchestrated Hardware Up the Value Stack
Hardware Management
RackHD

13. Introducing Docker
Infrakit
Declarative, Self-Healing Configuration
Common Infrastructure Experience

14. Consistent User Experience for
Docker Everywhere
RackHD

15. Docker Infrakit with RackHD
Cloud-like Docker Experience on Bare Metal
Container Engine
Storage plugin Network plugin Orchestration
Admin
interface
Linux
User Applications / Services
IaaS Layer
Bare Metal
RackHD
Infrastructure ManagementInfraKit
https://github.com/codedellemc/infrakit.rackhd

16. Declarative & Self-Healing Infrastructure
Groups
Cluster Configuration
Comprised of Instances &
Flavor Combination
Instances
Logical Cluster Instance.
i.e. EC2 Image, Vagrant
VM, Physical Host
Flavors
Role & Healthcheck. i.e.
Zookeeper, Swarm Node,
etc.

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Docker Infrakit Architecture

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Docker Infrakit + RackHD Process Flow
WORKFLOW API
MONGODB
RABBITMQ
DHCP
PXE/TFTP
SYSLOG
IPMI/OBM
RACKHD
INFRAKIT
GROUP
DOCKER INFRAKIT
INSTANCE
FLAVOR
https://github.com/codedellemc/infrakit.rackhd

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How to get Started
1. PXE Boot Bare Metal
for Passive Discovery
2. Define a server SKU
3. Create a custom
workflow, if needed
Discover Hardware
1. Configure an Infrakit
Cluster Configuration
2. Run Infrakit
Provisioning
Provision Clusters
https://github.com/codedellemc/infrakit.rackhd

20. Demo Time
https://github.com/codedellemc/infrakit.rackhd

21. RackHD Forward Vision
• Redfish 2016.3 compliant
• Move to more granular services
• Focus on stability, usability and modularity
• Scale
• UCS B-series and C-Series support
• Bare-metal network switch support
• Dynamic power capping
• Integration with Puppet and Salt
• Node registration

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community.codedellemc.com
@codeDellEMC
blog.codedellemc.com
github.com/codedellemc/labs
Justin Kenney
@justink0
github.com/justink0
HOL01 Use REX-Ray & ScaleIO w/ Docker, Mesos and Kubernetes
Aaron Spiegel
@spiegela
github.com/spiegela
https://github.com/codedellemc/infrakit.rackhd