1. Alfresco Software Provisioning Kit
Enzo Rivello
Alfresco Senior DevOps Engineer

2. Enzo Rivello 5 months of Alfresco Devops
Activiti Team, Dev-Products, TAA
Before, Playstation DevOps
Lead Developer of
Follow

3. Tool and Automation Team
Automate all the things
Automation across the borders
Technologies
Departments
Integration with Building systems
Evangelization

4. Design|Run|Integrate Alfresco stacks
Alfresco SPK
Design|Run|Integrate Alfresco stacks

5. Agenda
The challenges
Alfresco Installation
Alfresco SPK
Wrapping up

6. The Challenges

7. The Challenges The hosting choice Myriads of Cloud Providers
Myriads of Orchestration Tools
Provisioning challenges
Distributed architectures
Articulated provisioning process
Alfresco Installer limitations

8. Solutions Alfresco Installation Customizable/Configurable Modular
Versionable
Portable

9. Solutions Alfresco SPK Define/reuse a stack Test a stack locally
Create Official Alfresco Images (Marketplace AMIs, Vagrant Boxes, …)
Create Custom Images
Integrate CI tools with image building process (release pipeline integration)
Integrate orchestration tools to bootstrap immutable images (go live)

10. Alfresco Installation

11. 4x <full provisioning>
Instance Lifecycle
Stack Genesis
Stack Engine
4 IPs ID ID
Solr 2
Share1
Share 2 1
Root
Image
(distro)
Alfresco
Image
(tiered)
<provision>
<bootstrap>
4x <full provisioning>

12. <full provisioning>
Instance Lifecycle
Stack Genesis
Stack Engine
4 IPs ID ID
Solr 2
Share1
Share 2 1
Root
Image
(distro)
Alfresco
Image
(tiered)
<provision>
<bootstrap>
<full provisioning>

13. Chef Alfresco (beyond Chef Installer)
Component-based: repo, share, solr, aos and more
Supports 3 run modes (full-provisioning, provisioning-only, bootstrap-only)
Any Alfresco configuration can be customised
Can run continuously (install on top of an installation)
Downloads artifacts (VS Alfresco Installer monolithic installation)
Open Source, 68 releases, 11 contributors -
Haproxy, nginx

14. Alfresco SPK and the Vagrant Packer Plugin

15. Alfresco SPK Operations
Choose
a stack
Browse stack examples provided by the SPK
Run/Tweak
Spin up a stack locally using Virtualbox or VmWare
Build Images
Define Alfresco immutable images
Integrate
Run the CI and orchestration tool of your choice

16. SPK Library - components
Instance template(s) (JSON), which contain
Chef Alfresco Attributes
Image building configuration (Packer)
Local run (Vagrant)
Vagrantfile to define the stack and reference instance template(s)
Packer Plugin common configuration
Local Vagrant run common configuration
We already provide configuration for Alfresco AllInOne and Enterprise

17. Instance template - components{
"name": ”...",
"alfresco" : {
"components" : <alfresco_components> }
Allinone components
["haproxy","nginx","tomcat","transform","repo","share","solr","mysql"]
Share components
["haproxy","nginx","tomcat","transform","repo","share"]
Solr components
["haproxy","tomcat”,"repo","transform","solr"]

18. Run your stack Vagrant.configure("2") do |config|
# Source Image configuration
config.vm.box = "<vagrant_box_name>"
config.vm.box_url = "<vagrant_box_url>”
# Vagrant up configuration
instance_template = JSON.parse("<instance_template_json_path>")
config.vm.provision "chef_solo" do |chef|
chef.json = instance_template
chef.recipe_url = "<chef_alfresco_tar_url>"
instance_template['run_list'].each do |recipe|
chef.add_recipe recipe
end
End

19. Build your stack Vagrant.configure("2") do |config|
# SPK minimal configuration
config.packer_build.cookbooks_url = “<cookbooks_url/path>”
config.packer_build.instance_templates = [“<instance_template_url/path>”]
End

20. Try it yourself! # Clone SPK repo
git clone
# Install Vagrant Packer Plugin
vagrant plugin install vagrant-packer-plugin
cd alfresco-spk/stacks/community-allinone
# Or build your own Vagrantfile and instance template(s)
# Run the stack locally
vagrant up
# Build immutable images (default to Vagrantbox)
vagrant packer-build

21. Wrapping up

22. Choose an SPK stack and play with Vagrantfile and instance templates
Go Live – Zero to Hero
[Go Live]
[Image Build]
vagrant packer-build
[Tweak and Local run]
Vagrant up
[Configuration]
Choose an SPK stack and play with Vagrantfile and instance templates

23. Infrastructure as Code delivered
Revamped installation experience
Component-based installation
Controls provisioning and bootstrap phases
Reusable instance templates/images
Integration with cloud providers and orchestration tools
SPK

24. SPK in Alfresco AWS Marketplace AMIs Alfresco 5.1 Enterprise Allinone
Alfresco 5.1 Enterprise Allinone + Records Management
Alfresco Activiti Enterprise
Online Trials
Offline Trials / Sales Demos
Alfresco Benchmark
Alfresco Infrastructure
Alfresco Cloud

25. Roadmap Support additional Linux/Unix OSes
Publish Alfresco Vagrant boxes for existing instance templates
allinone, share, solr, …
Integrate with Alfresco SDK
Docker Integration (build only)
Improved docs for advanced Chef users
Publish chef-alfresco into Chef Supermarket
Product capabilities, timeframes and features are subject to change
and should not be viewed as Alfresco commitments.

26. Thanks!