Experience sharing on unified management and construction of virtual machine

One 、 background

stay IT In the operation and maintenance system , Virtual machines are the most common underlying resources , As the scale of the enterprise gradually expands , The number of virtual machines is also growing rapidly , In the past, when the operation and maintenance personnel were dealing with the management of virtual machines , Because the scale is not big , The security management of virtual machines is usually done manually .

Two 、 Actual case

The enterprise managed the virtual machine to the fortress machine , To strictly monitor people's operations on virtual machines . At the initial stage of blue whale construction , This operation is mainly manual , The main process is ：

l First step , Operation and maintenance personnel log in VN perhaps H3C Virtual machine management software , Follow the operation document , Create a virtual machine ;

l The second step , After the virtual machine is created , Log in to the fortress machine management platform such as green alliance or Qizhi , Configure the managed virtual machine on the platform ;

l The third step , After the virtual machine hosting fortress machine is completed , Manually enter the virtual machine information and hosting information into the blue whale configuration platform .

The above steps , Most of them are repetitive work of manual operation , The technical content is not high and very tedious , But with more virtual machines , The process of creating a managed virtual machine will take a lot of time for the operation and maintenance personnel , This makes the operation and maintenance personnel unable to focus more on solving more valuable problems .

Manual processing is not a long-term solution , In the face of these problems , The O & M team needs more efficient tools .

3、 ... and 、 Solution ideas

Facing the problems encountered by the enterprise , Jiawei blue whale cuts into the root , Carefully analyze the whole process of virtual machine creation and hosting , Break it down into several explicit processes and nodes , Abstract as a process （ Here's the picture ）.

In the whole process , If a clear process system can be adopted , Simplify the manual operation , Arrange and execute the process , It will greatly improve the efficiency of operation and maintenance personnel in managing virtual machines .

In blue whale standard operation and maintenance , No built-in vmware Virtual machine creation and fortress machine hosting atoms , But by creating vmware Virtual machine and hosting green alliance 、 Relevant plug-ins for standard operation and maintenance of Qizhi fortress machine , Atomic development capability can be used to create a series of processes in standard operation and maintenance , Provide a unified process for virtual machine creation and fortress machine hosting .

Four 、 Standard O & M development

After sorting out the process , What needs to be done is to carry out corresponding atomic development according to the current situation of the enterprise .

1. Introduction to standard operation and maintenance

Blue whale standard operation and maintenance is a system that arranges and executes task flow through a visual graphical interface . Be able to connect all platforms , Realize the whole process automation of operation , At the same time, it has the ability of standardization , Support operation and maintenance standards of different architectures , Solidify daily repeated operations into templates , Improve operation and maintenance efficiency .

Multiple access support

Work platform 、 Configuration platform 、 monitor 、 Faulty system 、 Other operating systems within the enterprise .

Process visualization

Intuitive and flexible drag and drop task node arrangement , The whole process execution log records , All operations can be traced .

Multiple process modes

Supports the serialization of steps and nodes / parallel , Automatically judge the branch execution according to the execution result , Configurable nesting and retry mechanisms .

2. Atomic development

Standard operation and maintenance plug-in development architecture （ Quoted from the official documents of blue whale ）

Jia created for blue whale vmware The virtual machine has been precipitated , It can be reused after modification , It needs to be implemented in the existing IT In the system , Get the interfaces of the related managed virtual machines of green alliance and Qizhi fortress , After filling out some forms , Automatically host the newly generated virtual machine to the corresponding fortress machine .

In the process of this implementation , Perhaps the most difficult is to interface with third parties , Debugging has been unable to proceed normally due to version and compatibility problems , In the subsequent continuous communication with the enterprise , Even after finding the corresponding vendor to provide support , Successfully completed the development of these atoms , Successfully implement the automated process of creating virtual machines and hosting them to fortress machines .

Except for vmware virtual machine , also h3c Creation of virtual machine , Because the interface and brand are different , So develop for different atoms , For management and subsequent modification , But the overall process is the same . The standard operation and maintenance process after final development is shown in the figure ：

In the actual use process of the enterprise , The operation and maintenance personnel can choose to customize the hosting process , By combining these developed standard O & M atoms , Form different processes to use .

In the subsequent construction of the enterprise , This standard O & M process can be compared with ITSM Combination of applications , The creation and hosting of virtual machines are designed in a standard business process , Therefore, the standard operation and maintenance process is also related to the application of virtual machines , Some nodes such as approval are connected in series in the same ITSM In the process , After the bill of lading of the presenter is approved , It will automatically trigger the standard operation and maintenance process , Automatically initialize the virtual machine and host it to the fortress machine .

5、 ... and 、 Integrated construction

Through the operation with standards ITSM Natural fusion blue whale CMDB Unified management of virtual machines and other resources , Will be able to achieve the whole process of rapid bill of lading , Automated processing , Greatly reduce the manual operation of operation and maintenance personnel , Greatly improve the operation and maintenance efficiency , Make the operation and maintenance personnel focus on the more core operation and maintenance work .

Jiawei blue whale , Based on the blue whale PaaS Platform customization development SaaS It's a tool , Satisfy the enterprise IT Business system from R & D 、 Requirements for the full lifecycle management scenario from O & M to operation . Jiawei blue whale SaaS Run on the unified research and operation platform in a instrumented way , be based on PaaS The atomic power of the platform can quickly assemble various scene tools . This customer case is based on the customer's current situation , Make use of the blue whale atomic capability to carry out custom development so as to meet the needs of the enterprise , It realizes the customized development of functions and the self growth of capabilities , Empowering enterprise transformation , At the same time, improve the efficiency of the enterprise operation and maintenance team , Help digital transformation .

Experience address

1、 Open source co construction

Standard operation and maintenance SaaS Is open source , Please visit github Page blue whale smart cloud standard operation and maintenance (SOPS)：https://github.com/Tencent/bk-sops , Click on star Button , Light up the little stars , You are also welcome to submit issue and pr, We appreciate your support and attention .

2、 Download experience

Welcome to the official website of blue whale Zhiyun （https://bk.tencent.com/download/ ）, Download Community Edition 6.0 Version base package , Install standard O & M SaaS, Experience .