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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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