Cisco Cisco IMC Integrations Getting Started Guide

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Benefits
Puppet and Cisco UCS integration 
offers these benefits:
• 
Enables infrastructure to move 
at cloud speed by automating 
and unifying the processes 
for provisioning computing, 
storage, and fabric resources 
• 
Installs and manages all aspects of 
a target workload while providing 
detailed infrastructure monitoring
• 
Manages infrastructure in a secure 
and proactive manner through 
powerful Cisco UCS security features 
such as Trusted Platform Module 
(TPM) and Razor node tagging
Automate Cisco UCS Bare-Metal Provisioning and More
The integration of Cisco Unified Computing 
System™ (Cisco UCS®) management 
with Puppet Enterprise and Puppet Razor 
brings together software development 
and IT operations to accelerate application 
deployment. The Puppet Razor module works 
in conjunction with Cisco UCS management 
to facilitate rapid bare-metal provisioning of 
all Cisco UCS systems in just a few steps. 
The integration of Cisco UCS management 
with Puppet Enterprise provides ongoing 
management and monitoring. 
Cisco UCS was designed as software-defined 
infrastructure. Every component is managed 
by Cisco UCS Manager, and programmatic 
interfaces to all components are available. 
Cisco UCS truly is “infrastructure as code.” 
Treating infrastructure as code has many 
benefits, including faster configuration 
workflows and faster application  
lifecycles overall.
tools for DevOps configuration management. 
It uses an extensible plug-in architecture and 
powerful declarative language. This easy-
to-use platform transparently integrates the 
, so teams can manage 
networks, servers, and the related storage 
resources from a single console. Puppet 
Razor is a bare-metal provisioning module that 
works with Cisco UCS hardware platforms to 
create completely autonomous end-to-end 
infrastructure-as-code solutions.
Puppet and Cisco UCS 
Management Integration
Puppet and Cisco UCS Management Integration
At a Glance
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