lab_deployment.md

Deploying to the Lab

Some Open Questions

• Which cookbooks? There is a fork of cookbook-infra-monitoring owned by scottso (scott on IRC) There are a number of branches on all the branches

• How to manage? Getting opaque client-side installation instructions (looking at amzn.to/TCawhN and bit.ly/UNvNWN) Have questions the permissions model (need a .pem, or something)

• Missing some wiki notes I thought there were some good articles that I need to catch up on

• Not sure Rakesh has access to everything This may be fixed...he's part of our group now.

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• How do we setup our own Nagios services inside the tenant? Does anything from these Chef repos run inside the tenant? Can we copy in the work that Doug and Reid did with tools-chef-solo? Specifically: Load Balancer, Master and a Slave Basically: is there anything in our current Chef environment that allows us to setup the Load Balancer, Master and Slave?

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Please add your concerns here

Specifically, we need to make sure we have the right Nagios servers running.

• Cookbooks involved:
  1. https://github.com/att-cloud/cookbook-infra-monitoring
  2. https://github.com/att-cloud/deployment-data
  3. https://github.com/att-cloud/chef-repo
• cookbook-infra-monitoring sets up nagios server primary and slave, nagios-nrpe clients along with plugins
• follow https://docs.sl.attcompute.com/operations/monitoring/nagios/howto_addservicecheck?destination=node/605 to add a check
• need to explore roles, hosts and hostgroups to apply client checks
• If we follow the nrds/nrdp route of nagios we can reuse from Reid and Dough's work in https://github.com/att-cloud/tools-chef-solo , nagios branch, cookbook: monitoring
• chef-repo has chef roles and environments that can be used to enable certain plugin checks. If it is object store node we can enable nagios plugins that check swift like check_swift.

earlier comments:

1. cookbook-infra-monitoring is based on NRPE agents. Do we stick to it or modify it to merge with tools-chef-solo NRDP agents?
2. Adding a service check is well described in the HowTo page. Cannot seem to find host group definitions in any of the repos deployment-data or in cookbook-infra-monitoring. Example: infra-messaging group mentioned in the example. Where is "infra-messaging" host group defined?