Hudson, Puppet, Cucumber

Patrick Debois Julian Simpson

23-25 March 2010 http://www.ukuug.org/
Thursday 25 March 2010

Patrick: Belgian

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Julian: New Zealand

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A story about an IT company not so far away

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Meet the manager

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Project Managers

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Rock-Star developers

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Rock-Star sysadmins

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Stubborn guys from operations

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Typical chain of command

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Ops and Sysadmins usually get along

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But devs and sysadmins often debate about quality

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Devs:You should be able to make changes faster in production

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Sysadmins: You should Test More

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Usually results in ....

Fight!

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Then the managers created silos

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Now only some deploys get through

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But over time developers evolved

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They looked on the internet

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Found new ways to automate the tests TDD, BDD

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New ways of automating delivery

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Solved their focus problem

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Kept operations on a leash

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And what about the sysadmins?

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Whenever a customer wanted some new server

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They would go off and do their manual installs

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Even in terrible conditions

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Just like their role models

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Then they started to use kickstarts

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Automated it with ugly custom scripting

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cong mgt v1 = Lcfg, CFEngine

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Whats a DSL?

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Puppet is a DSL for systems administration

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http://reductivelabs.com/products/puppet/
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# verify owner & permissions class base_etc { file { "/etc/passwd": owner => root, group => root, mode => 644} file { "/etc/sudoers": owner => root, group => root, mode => 440} } # install apache class apache2 { # using the local package manager, install the reqd pkg package { "apache2": ensure => installed } service { "apache2": ensure => running, hasstatus => true, hasrestart => true, require => Package["apache2"], } } # default node is applied by _all_ connecting puppet clients node default { include base_etc } # specific config for host www01 node www01 { # load the corresponding class defined above include apache2 }
Read more: http://www.agileweboperations.com/conguration-management-introduction-to-puppet/#ixzz0iyVDqF89

Example Puppet Recipe

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Cong Management is evolving Puppet Chef Sysadmin

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Deploy new systems more often, faster and better reproducible

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Models

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convergence making systems similar over time

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congruence rebuild the whole node

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Provisioning Different Environments Dev

Test

Production

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Becoming agile

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Cloud for testing conguration systems

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Sysadmins should look at problems from a development perspective

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Devs should view it from operational point of view

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Infrastructure is becoming code

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So Im a programmer now?

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If youre a programmer, be a good one

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Version your scripts

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Use a repository

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Testing

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You might like

http://cukes.info/

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Results

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Gherkin

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Validating Apache cong

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Mail Scenarios

Test Test

Test

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Mail Step denitions

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Testing will make the pains visible

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Things will get dirty

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It requires a strong stomach to keep it up

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Extra bonus : Cucumber-Nagios

$ cucumber-nagios ukuug.feature critical: 0, warning: 0, 2 okay | passed=2, failed=0

http://auxesis.github.com/cucumber-nagios/
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Keep an overview on your changes

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Dont change your infrastructure all at once

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One piece at a time

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Its still a human process

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Tools help

Story!

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Hudson facilitates the process

http://hudson-ci.org/

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invokes Hudson

Puppet

provisions Puppet manifests = are tested

runs

OS tests

Cucumber
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Tools are only a means to an end

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Devs and Ops working together

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Ops-Ops working together Network Operating System

Database

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Its about the business

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Devops: a bit of everything business developers sysadmins

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http://www.devopsdays.org/ http://planet.devops.info/ http://www.devops.info/ #devops - twitter #infra-talk - irc agile-system-administration - googlegroups

Puppetcamp Europe 2010 : Ghent, Belgium , on 27&28 May, 2010 Devopsdays US: Mountain View, California, US on Friday, June 25, 2010 Devopsdays Europe coming somewhere in October/November
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Questions?

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Thank you!

Patrick Debois @patrickdebois patrick.debois@jedi.be http://jedi.be/blog Julian Simpson simpsonjulian@gmail.com @builddoctor http://www.build-doctor.com
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