[cisco-voip] Automated cluster building? (devops tools)

[Stephen Welsh]

Hi Nick,

We use Azure Devops (previously called Visual Studio Team Services) for Continuous Integration/Delivery of all our software. As part of that some of our UCM and UCCX integrations are tested automatically. In our case we have a local lab VMWare system (currently just statically built UCM/UCCX instances). Although we use Azure Devops in the cloud, we have an on-prem build agent that executes the tasks defined in our Build/Release pipeline. The on-prem agent has direct connectivity to UCM/UCCX as well as the VMWare host for running the CI tests.

We did make a start to automating the deployment of the test UCM/UCCX system, in our case we are using snapshots of the base UCM/UCCX system. One of the many tasks available to Azure Devops is VMWare integration, so we can have a build agent task that powers up the relevant UCM/UCCX instance from the appropriate snapshot to then perform the relevant CI test.

I did have a discussion with the Cisco DevNet Sandbox team about them exposing an API to reserve/start sandbox instances which they were keen to do, but the main guy that was working on that has since moved on. However I was lucky enough to win a DevNet Creator award recently (Yay ;) and have been asked to provide some input to the DevNet road map, so you can bet your boots this is on my list ;)

Personally I’m a big fan of CI/CD and automation in general and have invested a lot of time learning how Azure Devops works etc. very cools stuff.

Happy to host a WebEx to take you through our setup some time, also we shall be at Cisco Live US again this year, booth number: 2336

Kind Regards

Stephen Welsh
Founder & CTO
UnifiedFX

On 29 May 2019, at 20:38, Nick Barnett <nick at barnett.email<mailto:nick at barnett.email>> wrote:

I'm looking into what we need in a non-prod environment and I can't seem to find what I'm looking for. Has anyone used standard devops tools to automate the build of clusters? I doubt I'm going to find anything that would be an "IaaS for CUCM" that I can run at my company, but that's what I'm after.


What are other people doing for the problem of needing repeatable and quick development environments? There has to be a better way than building a new cluster from scratch, which can take hours. I can hit a button and deploy a full cluster of linux servers, all of the containers they need, DNS, the virtual network to connect them all, and everything else needed to be production ready (and it will be done in a few minutes), but I have to spend DAYS making a dev CUCM environment. What am I missing?


Thanks,
Nick


Thanks,
Nick

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