Presentation for DevOps Toronto Meetup -http://www.meetup.com/DevOpsTO/events/143042182/ Discussion on deploying with Artifacts and more specifically Debian packages and how we do it at EventMobi

1. Bijan Vaez
Co-Founder and CTO @ EventMobi
Artifact Deploys with Debian
@bijanv

2. The easiest way to build a custom event app
Instant Updates and Feedback
Real-time Audience Response
Full customizability
Gamification
etc

3. DevOps?
Arguable the single most
important duty in your daily work
Must be
FAST + PAINLESS + AUTOMATED

4. The Ideal Deployment System
One Click / Single Button

5. The Ideal Deployment System
Predictable

6. The Ideal Deployment System
Continuously Deployable

7. The Ideal Deployment System
Anytime
Anywhere
By Anyone

8. The Ideal Deployment System
Reliable

9. The Ideal Deployment System
Easy Rollbacks

10. The Ideal Deployment System
No Downtime

11. The Ideal Deployment System
Scalable

12. The Ideal Deployment System
Secure

13. The Ideal Deployment System
Most Importantly
Zero Dependencies!!!!

14. The Ideal Deployment System

15. Decouple The Process
Build / Compile should not
happen on prod systems
(not predictable)

16. How We Do It
1. Code Checked into Master branch
2. Jenkins picks up the change
3. Launches prod like environment through VMs
4. Compiles / Builds environment & app
5. Runs Full Test Suite
6. All green? Package the app into .deb
7. Version and tag it
8. Sign the package
9. Upload to own apt-get repo source on S3
10. Wait for Deploy Command (triggered by Chef)

17. How We Do It
• Packaging app into apt-get repo is a
single command
• Can be done by anyone, anywhere,
anytime
• Doesn’t have to be through build server
o Trust your people!

18. Why Deb?
• Single Artifact is source of truth of app
• Deb Packages are meant for this. Have
been around for decades, solved most if
not all issues re installations
• Handles OS level dependencies
• Handles versioning, upgrading, rollbacks
o Can even set up symlink deploys a la
Capistrano
• No dependency!

19. Common Q’s
• What dependencies go where?
• What if I’m not running Debian?
• Don’t know how to get started

20. Thank You!
Bijan Vaez
@bijanv