Orchestrate change across server clusters in near realtime with MCollective, the framework that works in concert with Puppet, Chef, and other configuration management tools. Ideal for system administrators and operations or DevOps engineers at any level, this hands-on guide teaches you how to build and test a real installation of MCollective servers and clients in your environment. Learn how to build an entire installation by hand, know where every configuration file lives, and understand every configuration parameter and what it means. Whether you manage a small environment or one that's immense in scale, this book shows you how to orchestrate specific actions faster and better than you do now. Tour MCollective's architecture, backbone, transport, and security controls Configure MCollective components to match your production environment Create and use collectives to handle thousands of remote MCollective agents Use ActiveMQ Network of Brokers to resolve multi-site or redundancy requirements Learn how to use community-built client and agent plugins, with concrete examples Create your own server and client plugins to perform a variety of actions Learn recommended best practices for using MCollective
About the AuthorJo Rhett is a network engineer and system administrator with more than 20 years of experience maintaining production CentOS/Red Hat, Debian, FreeBSD, Solaris and other Unix-based hosts and IP-based networks. He actively assists companies with IPv6 deployment. Jo has been using, promoting, and enhancing configuration management systems for over 20 years. He implemented the complete package management functionality in Cfengine v2, before switching to Puppet for the last three years.
Book InformationISBN 9781491945674
Author Jo RhettFormat Paperback
Page Count 284
Imprint O'Reilly MediaPublisher O'Reilly Media
Weight(grams) 498g
Dimensions(mm) 231mm * 178mm * 15mm