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Infrastructure as Code Cookbook

You're reading from   Infrastructure as Code Cookbook Automate complex infrastructures

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786464910
Length 440 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Pierre Pomès Pierre Pomès
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Stephane Jourdan Stephane Jourdan
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Preface 1. Vagrant Development Environments 2. Provisioning IaaS with Terraform FREE CHAPTER 3. Going Further with Terraform 4. Automating Complete Infrastructures with Terraform 5. Provisioning the Last Mile with Cloud-Init 6. Fundamentals of Managing Servers with Chef and Puppet 7. Testing and Writing Better Infrastructure Code with Chef and Puppet 8. Maintaining Systems Using Chef and Puppet 9. Working with Docker 10. Maintaining Docker Containers Index

Provisioning a GitLab CE + CI runners on OpenStack

OpenStack is a very popular open source cloud computing solution. Many providers are based on it, and you can roll your own in your data center. In this example, we'll use the public OpenStack by OVH, located in Montreal, QC (Canada), but we can use any other OpenStack. There're differences in implementation for every custom deployment, but we'll stick with very stable features.

We'll launch one compute instance running Ubuntu LTS 16.04 for GitLab, with a dedicated block device for Docker, and two other compute instances for GitLab CI runners. Security will allow HTTP for everyone, but SSH only for a known IP from our corporate network. To store our builds or releases, we'll create a container, which is in OpenStack terminology—an object storage. The equivalent with AWS S3 is a bucket.

Getting ready

To step through this recipe, you will need the following:

  • A working Terraform installation.
  • An OpenStack account...
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