Automate management of NetScaler with Puppet Labs

Automate management of NetScaler with Puppet Labs -

operations teams are expected to increasingly complex to manage nascent infrastructure while to meet the business expectations for the application deployment in these days.

DevOps practices can be used to allow operations teams to scale servers and applications without time-consuming manual configuration quickly and efficiently. Extending DevOps functionality for Application Delivery Controller is critical and part needs to be any fully functioning DevOps software package.

The world is increasingly moving to a model where infrastructure is managed as a code provided and scaled. NetScaler is designed to have the best APIs and interfaces, fully accessible to the best modern infrastructure management tools to ensure. Puppet Labs has been at the forefront of this movement and we see an increase in our customers who want to integrate and deploy processes as part of their DevOps the NetScaler.

The Puppet Enterprise Module for NetScaler

, the Citrix NetScaler team and the Puppet Labs module team are the availability of Puppet Enterprise supports Citrix NetScaler module to announce. With this module you can manage NetScaler physical and virtual appliances. Puppet combines tools and processes, the silos are housed used to, so that you can manage all the benefits of your infrastructure as code. With its declarative, model-based approach to IT automation enables Puppet Enterprise solution that features like various perform as automating simple repetitive tasks providing great public, private and hybrid clouds.

this operations teams implement the functionality let, automate and configure an entire application infrastructure "stack" including compute, network and storage management. This gives the opportunity to extend application developers elastically and contract infrastructure resources to automate application testing and application development to reduce timeframes.

stood Switching to a Dev / Ops Model
Before Puppet module available, NetScaler administrators manual configuration would use the interaction or scripts using the REST API or via SSH manage initial configuration and ongoing configuration changes. These practices are of the Automation Tooling used silos accommodated to manage the computing systems. The new Puppet module means that changes and calculate the ADCs can be written, to be reviewed and used in combination, to reduce complexity and streamline the development process.

In addition to change management process improvements to manage Puppet configuring NetScaler device gives the user to automate the advantages of the infrastructure as a code. NetScaler administrators can take advantage of version control, code portability and promotion, peer review, continuous delivery and rollbacks, all read in a accessible for people configuration language.

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Stream Migration to the cloud
an application in the cloud is a complex process, the company's application performance, security, infrastructure to consider the cost and complexity of management requires. can be ensured using the Puppet Enterprise Module for NetScaler, consistent configuration and deployment applications, whether those applications are deployed on premise or in public cloud infrastructures.

virtualizing servers, storage and networking fully an important requirement for an automated business. Puppet Enterprise builds on the flexibility of a virtualized infrastructure allows modeling, automated push-button installation and configuration management. The ability to model, test, and then configuration changes in the private, public and hybrid cloud deployment provides an efficient use of infrastructure resources and enabling businesses, ability to most effectively use these resources.

Getting started
to start just follow the instructions on the NetScaler module Forge page and learn how to manage your NetScaler ADCs with Puppet. https://forge.puppetlabs.com/puppetlabs/netscaler

It provides an overview of a typical implementation NetScaler with Puppet on Github here
https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppetlabs-netscaler

There is a sample code for a typical implementation NetScaler with Puppet in the module here https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppetlabs-netscaler/blob/master/spec/acceptance/demo.rb

with some basic resources such as users, groups, groups, NTP server, time zone, SNMP traps and host name

following the instructions in the module a NetScaler ADC set up load balancing and content switching perform.

Connect
combining puppet and NetScaler provides opportunities for the management of network infrastructure to automate the Community. You can sort entries on the Puppet users sharing forum and Ask Puppet Labs mailing list.

to learn more
• NetScaler modules on the Puppet Forge

• NetScaler Application Delivery Controller

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