The document discusses automated infrastructure and application management presented by Clark Everetts from Zend Technologies at ZendCon 2014. It highlights the challenges of manual server maintenance and the benefits of automation using tools like Chef and Zend's SDK, along with a GitHub resource for development environments. The presentation aims to guide attendees in setting up and deploying applications on Zend server-based infrastructures using practical tools and techniques.

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Automated Infrastructure and
Application Management
Clark Everetts, Zend Technologies, Inc.
ZendCon - 30 Oct 2014

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Hi!
Clark Everetts
• Zend Technologies, Inc.
• Sr. Professional Services Consultant
– Software Architecture Audits / Performance Audits
– Continuous Delivery Assessments
– Migrations (PHP, ZF, etc.)
– Training: PHP, ZF
• Past Life: missile interceptor launch control ; C&DH for International Space Station
• Co-author with Michael Kimsal of php/architect’s PHP Job Hunter’s Handbook
Enough about me…

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SO, WHAT’S YOUR PROBLEM?

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Managing application infrastructure / apps
• Server maintenance/repair, application deployments
• Often manual process
• Dependencies, multiple people needed
• Tedious
• Error prone
• Late nights troubleshooting self-inflicted wounds
If your process is manual, at best it will be
slow. At worst, it will be a living nightmare.

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Stop the Madness! Automate!
Standardize, Make Repeatable & Reliable, Process:
• Well-understood, built through collaboration
• Controlled through Versioning
• Testable in safe environments
• Infrastructure Solution: Chef Cookbook
• App Deployment Solution: CLI Client SDK
• Server and Application Management Solution: WebAPI
Zend Patterns offers Open-Source Plugins
for Zend Server-based Infrastructures

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Presentation Goals
What are we going to do today?
• Look at Zend Patterns on GitHub - https://github.com/zend-patterns
• Set up a Zend Server-based development environment using
ZendServerChefCookbook
• Deploy, (time-permitting: Update, Rollback) an Application using
ZendServerSDK
• Time-permitting: Get information about the application using
ZendServerWebApiModule (here, via ZendServerSDK)
Open Plugins for Zend Server-based
Infrastructures

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GITHUB TOUR: ZEND PATTERNS

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CHEF COOKBOOK

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Development Environment: ZendServerChefCookbook
Prerequisite Steps:
• Install Vagrant - http://docs.vagrantup.com/v2/installation/index.html
• Install / update relevant Vagrant Plugins:
– vagrant-cachier (https://github.com/fgrehm/vagrant-cachier)
– vagrant-omnibus (https://github.com/opscode/vagrant-omnibus)
– vagrant-* (https://github.com/mitchellh?tab=repositories)
– Check for new plugins and also run vagrant plugin update
• Install VirtualBox (https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads)
• Or, VMWare Fusion/Workstation, Docker, (Hyper-V - Avail. w/ Windows
8.1) – requires inexpensive plugin from Hashicorp.
• Install Chef (next slide)

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Development Environment: ZendServerChefCookbook
Install Chef on Your “Workstation”:
• System Requirements
(https://docs.getchef.com/chef_system_requirements.html)
• Supported Platforms
(https://docs.getchef.com/supported_platforms.html)
• https://www.getchef.com/chef/choose-your-version/
• http://downloads.getchef.com/
• Chef Development Kit (http://www.getchef.com/downloads/chef-dk/)
– chef CLI tool, Client, Zero, Knife, Ohai, Berkshelf, Test Kitchen,
ChefSpec, FoodCritic
– Omnibus Installer
(https://docs.getchef.com/install_omnibus.html)
• ZendServerChefCookbook (https://github.com/zend-patterns/
ZendServerChefCookbook)

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Development Environment: ZendServerChefCookbook
Prerequisites for Node VM:
• Vagrant Base Box
• Chef
• One way to get started is to get a Chef box from VagrantCloud
– https://vagrantcloud.com/chef
– https://github.com/opscode/bento
– https://github.com/opscode/vagrant-omnibus
– Can also create a base box
• E.g., config.vm.box = "ubuntu/trusty64“
• Configure Cookbook (sit tight; we’ll see it soon)

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Development Environment: ZendServerChefCookbook
Need a vagrant box with Chef
• Get a box without Chef and install the desired version yourself
• Install Chef
• One way to get started is to get a Chef box from VagrantCloud
– https://vagrantcloud.com/chef
– https://github.com/opscode/bento
– https://github.com/opscode/vagrant-omnibus

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Development Environment: Vagrant and Chef
Where to get a vagrant box with Chef?
• Vagrant can be instructed to install Chef at runtime using the vagrant-omnibus
plugin
– https://vagrantcloud.com/chef (in a catalog, updated easily)
• https://github.com/opscode/bento (Packer templates)
• https://github.com/opscode/vagrant-omnibus
• Download chef/ubuntu-14.04
• Get a box with Chef already included in the base box
– https://vagrantcloud.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&sort=&p
rovider=&q=chef
• Can also download or create a base box yourself
– https://vagrantcloud.com/ffuenf/boxes/ubuntu-14.04-server-amd64
– E.g., config.vm.box = "ubuntu/trusty64“

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Development Environment: Vagrant Providers
If you chose the current title layout you should use it in all the slides layout:
• VirtualBox (part of core)
• AWS (ships in vagrant-aws plugin)
• Rackspace (ships in vagrant-rackspace plugin)
• VMWare Fusion ($79, 2 computers, purchase from Hashicorp)
• LXC (ships in vagrant-lxc)
• OpenStack (ships in vagrant-openstack-plugin)
• Digital Ocean (ships in vagrant-digitalocean)
• Parallels Desktop (ships in vagrant-parallels)
• Google Compute Engine (shell, Chef, Puppet)
Vagrant is an ever-growing ecosystem,
supporting standalone and cloud.

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Vagrant Cachier
A “common package cache among similar VM instances”:
• http://fgrehm.viewdocs.io/vagrant-cachier
• Run vagrant plugin install vagrant-cachier
• Providers known to work (others might):
– Vagrant's built in VirtualBox and Docker providers
– vagrant-lxc
– VMware providers with NFS enabled
– vagrant-libvirt
– vagrant-kvm

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COOKBOOK IN ACTION

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DEPLOYMENT WITH
ZENDSERVERSDK

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What is this ZendServerSDK, anyway?
ZF2 CLI application for:
• Creating zpk (deployment packages)
• Accessing WebAPI via command line
• WebAPI
– http://files.zend.com/help/Zend-Server/zend-server.
htm#web_api_reference_guide.htm
• ZendServerSDK
– https://github.com/zend-patterns/ZendServerSDK
• Let’s take a look… (github and in action)

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ZendServerWebApiModule
ZF2 Module for accessing Zend Server’s WebAPI
• Everything in the GUI is really just a front-end to API calls
– https://github.com/zend-patterns/ZendServerWebApiModule
• Let’s take a look… (github and in action)

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Bye!
Clark Everetts
• clark.e@zend.com
• @clarkphp
• https://github.com/clarkphp
• I will add a repository for this talk (with the code to create the VM image,
and an updated version of these slides) to the above github account.
• The slides will be available (and updated) on Slideshare/SpeakerDeck.
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