http://www.golem.de/news/githubs-metal-cloud-server-verwaltung-per-chatbot-statt-cloud-software-1512-117765.html Published: 02/12/2015 13:09
For his services dispensed Github completely typical cloud software and instead it uses to manage its own hardware in the data center. Although this brings some problems, but the Github will have solved with a special tool and the connection to a chatbot largely.
In recent years, more and more companies changed as OpenStack cloud software or took advantage of offers from Google, Amazon , Microsoft and many other companies. The hosting service for software projects, Github is, contrary to this industry trend in the management of its own hardware in its data centers, as the company has announced in his blog Technician. A separate tool and its connection to the house chatbot Hubot makes for Github managing his computer but as easy as in the use of cloud software, which is actually easier to work through hardware abstraction.
The simplicity of cloud environments, so the “extemporaneous retrieval of resources through an API” , Github achieved with its written in Ruby tool Gpanel. This application is developed according to the company with the move in its own data center about three years ago. But that’s not only the physical components are monitored. With Gpanel the Github Admins can play the software on the computer.
For this purpose, sufficient to connect the device to the network: the firmware is managed via IPMI, operating systems will be playing its own PXE server and the components such as CPU, RAM, RAID disks and the like are the Puppet -tool Facter collected. All this information is then prepared so that almost completely with new hardware automates the memory can be tested and then installed a Linux distribution on it and started in Gpanel.
access to chatbot
further simplifies the work at Github by a linkage of Gpanel to the programmable chatbot Hubot, which can also be for use, among other things to open the office doors of the enterprise. So a command is sufficient in the chat client to install the operating system on the new hardware, or changing the RAID configuration. Also easily performed simultaneously or a host computer to be placed temporarily out of service operations on multiple devices.
Unlike for example Hubot or some other proprietary developments from Github Gpanel is currently not freely available. It is not clear whether Github ever plans to provide each Gpanel as open source. (sg)
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