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GREASE is designed as a system to enable generalized and large scale automation efforts. Rather than approaching automation via manual scripts, scheduled runs in a task runner system, GREASE is designed to be completely hands free. This enables true and actual automation and reduction of toil. GREASE is designed to stop the decades old mentality of operations and operators from break/fix work, and redirect their efforts to the principles of SRE. A common simile for GREASE is: "Let Operations STOP fighting all these fires (automated preventable incidents), install the sprinkler system (GREASE) and begin performing arson investigation (helping solutions portfolio working on & prioritizing their backlog/Designing better processes and infrastructure)

GREASE provides a simple JSON configuration schema for issue detection and a safe Python command class for implementing resolutions.

GREASE runs 24/7/365 monitoring sources you define and based on configuration can act on these sources. These actions can be anything you can do in python.

Out of the box GREASE is very minimal, it is but an engine. Similar to Django, you write your application, GREASE just serves it.

1. PostgreSQL 9.4+
   • Provision the database with the database.sql file included here.
2. Python2.7
3. Pip
   • Requests
   • Psycopg2
   • PyMongo

1. Setup Your Environment Variables
   • GREASE_DSN is the only one required at this point
2. Install GREASE
   • python setup.py install
3. Register with your database
   • grease enterprise bridge register
4. Next Steps
   • Develop your module for GREASE Commands and Configurations
   • Setup your environment for this package:
     • GREASE_CONF_PKG: Your configuration Package
     • GREASE_CONF_DIR: The directory in your package for configurations to be loaded from
     • GREASE_SOURCES_PKG: The package to load sources from
   • if you plan to enable MongoDB for source de-duplication you'll need some additional variables set:
     • GREASE_MONGO_HOST: MongoDB Host Name
     • GREASE_MONGO_PORT: MongoDB Port (Defaults to 27017)
     • GREASE_MONGO_USER: MongoDB Auth Username
     • GREASE_MONGO_PASSWORD: MongoDB Auth Password
     • GREASE_MONGO_DB: Database Name (defaults to grease)