InfraHub - What is Infrahub? Introduction to Infrahub from Opsmill | Graph Database, Git based, Network Automation Devops Platform from Opsmill

Introduction to Infrahub

About 7 years ago Damien Garros started to think about how to solve some of the fundamental challenges organisations had with developing and maintaining infrastructure automation, 18 months ago he partnered with Raphael Maunier, Raphael was facing the same problems and ended up developing his own automation stack.

OpsMill

In 2023 they launched OpsMill and over the last year they have been building Infrahub.

What is Infrahub?

Infrahub is the industry’s first infrastructure automation platform

Infrahub is the industry’s first infrastructure automation platform that delivers a source of truth with extendable schema, versioning, and native continuous integration capabilities.

Infrahub offers a central hub to manage the data, templates and playbooks that powers your infrastructure by combining the version control and branch management capabilities of Git with the flexible data model and UI of a graph database.

https://github.com/opsmill/infrahub

How Infrahub works

Key Features of Infrahub

Infrahub offers a central hub to manage the data templates and playbooks
Infrahub is a new infrastructure as code iac platform
Infrahub is a unified storage engine with versioning

Getting Started with Infrahub

Infrahub is deployed as a container-based architecture, and can be deployed for testing or production use in a number of different ways, using Curl, Docker or K8s

Infrahub Hardware Requirements

Level	CPU Cores	RAM	Storage / database (Neo4j)
Minimum	6	12GB	SSD and/or >= 5000 IOPS
Recommended	8	16GB	SSD and/or >= 5000 IOPS

https://docs.infrahub.app/topics/hardware-requirements

How to install Infrahub

https://docs.infrahub.app/guides/installation

For my Infrahub lab server, I cloned the repo installed invoke and then did a invoke demo.start

What is a Graph Database?

A graph database is a specialized database system designed to store, manage, and query highly interconnected data using graph structures1 3. Unlike traditional relational databases, graph databases excel at handling complex relationships and traversing interconnected data efficiently

Using Git for Version Control

Every change you make in Infrahub is done using Git, so unlike making a change to a database which cannot be reverted, any change to make to Infrahub can be reverted easily as there is full version control.

Need a new data model?

If you are trying to model a device in our your source of truth and you don’t have all the custom fields you need, no problem with Infrahub you just update the schema and create yourself a new data model.