Thinglauncher Intro

Integrating GitHub & EC2 with Django Ross KarchnerTuesday, February 21, 2012

Problem: we needed an easy way for developers to spin up test serversTuesday, February 21, 2012

Solution: “Thinglauncher” • Authenticates against GitHub Enterprise • Key management via Github • Creates virtual servers (EC2 instances) in our “virtual private cloud” (VPC) • Manages costs by automatically stopping servers after 5 days. • I’m not allowed to name projects anymore.Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Managing keys in GitHubTuesday, February 21, 2012

Essential Software • Boto: Communication with Amazon Web Services • Django-social-auth (with custom backend): OAuth authentication with GitHub, and GitHub API Access • Ubuntu Cloudinit: Customize server conﬁguration • Fabric & Cuisine: remote control and further conﬁguration of servers • RabbitMQ & Celery: Task QueueTuesday, February 21, 2012

What happens when you launch a server? An Ubuntu server is requested with the users selected SSH key, and a “cloudInit” conﬁgurationTuesday, February 21, 2012

What happens when you launch a server? The server is created, additional conﬁguration is done per the CloudInit ﬁle (Apache, Git, and useful Python packages are installed). The user’s selected SSH key is installed to ~/.ssh/ authorized_keys Another SSH keypair is set up (or retrieved) so that the user can push and pull to Github Also per CloudInit, the server “phones home” to let ThingLauncher know that it is up and running.Tuesday, February 21, 2012

What happens when you launch a server? If the user requested a git checkout, this is done with Fabric, and the Cuisine APITuesday, February 21, 2012

What happens when you launch a server? If the repo contains a “fabfile.py”, that file is also run, allowing the server to be configured further. This one sets up a wordpress site.Tuesday, February 21, 2012

What’s next? • Open Source • Windows Servers • UI- overhaul • Make it easier to develop, test, and share server conﬁgurations • Database management • “Thinglauncher for Deployment”Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Thinglauncher Intro

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