RacksDB 0.4.0

Description:

RacksDB 0.4.0

RacksDB
Overview
RacksDB is an open source solution to modelize your datacenters
infrastructures. It provides a simple database schema to store information about
the equipments in your datacenters. This database can be used as reference
source for many purposes in IT management.

Inventory: Get permanent reference list of equipments charactistics and
enable conformity testing.
Automation: Adopt Infrastructure-as-Code by coupling generic configuration
management logic with infrastructures model.
Continuous deployment: Define advanced deployment rules based on nodes
characteristics declared in RacksDB.
Monitoring: Synchronize monitoring services with equipments database and
define dynamic dashboard.
Documentation: Get updated architecture diagrams and define generic
adaptative procedures.




Generally speaking, RacksDB is a specialized
CMDB
dedicated to
DCIM.
Compared to others products, RacksDB can be considered lightweight
alternative to more advanced tools such as NetBox and
RackTables.
The main characteristics of RacksDB that makes it unique among other
solutions are the following:

YAML based. The data are stored in plain files using human-readable YAML
format, easily managed with Git.
Simple and pragmatic. The database schema is intuitive and practical,
infrastructures can be described in few minutes.
Tag-based. Easy filtering of data and equipments based on associated tags.
Decentralized architecture. RacksDB can be deployed without central
server, just by replicating few plain YAML files.
Extensibility. In addition to RacksDB simple format, custom schema
extensions can be defined to store specific data.

RacksDB provides multiple interfaces to request the database with its
CLI tool, a
Python library, a
REST API and a
Web UI.



For more details, read the
full description
of RacksDB.
Status
RacksDB is considered stable and ready for production.
Quickstart
To install and start using RacksDB in a few steps, follow the
quickstart guide!
Documentation
The full documentation
of RacksDB is available online with complete database definition reference
documentation, how-tos (extensions, positioning), CLI manpage and library API
documentation.
Community
Do you want to get in touch with developers and the community? Several channels
are available:


Matrix Chat #racksdb:talk.rackslab.io:
instant messaging for quick feedback and help.

[!NOTE]
A Matrix account
is required to access the chat room. It can be created in few steps on any
Matrix network public provider such as matrix.org or
gitter.im.



GitHub Discussions:
send questions, ideas and suggestions.


Authors
RacksDB is developed and maintained by Rackslab. Please
contact us for any questions or professionnal
services.
The project has also received external contributions from great people:

@btravouillon
(Mila)

Tests
To run the unit tests, launch this command:
$ python3 -m unittest discover -v .

License
RacksDB is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v3.0 or
later (GPLv3+).