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Plone Deployment Secrets & Tricks
This document summarizes a presentation titled "Plone Deployment: Secrets & Tricks" given by Steve McMahon at the Plone Symposium East in 2012. The presentation covered various techniques for optimizing Plone deployment including using a load balancer and proxy cache to improve performance. It also discussed tools for backup, logging, database packing, and platform setup. The presentation emphasized using proven open source tools and measuring performance before optimizing.
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- 1. Plone Deployment: Secrets &Tricks Steve McMahon Plone Symposium East, 2012
- 2. On ly! Tod ay ricks! ts orT t Se cre Wit hou Plone Deployment: Secrets & Tricks Steve McMahon Plone Symposium East, 2012
- 3. You: SysAdmin orFriend of SysAdmin
- 4. ix y SX , Un D, O , BS Li nux You: SysAdmin or Friend of SysAdmin
- 5. ix y SX , Un D, O , BS Li nux You: SysAdmin or Friend of SysAdmin Me: SysAdmin and person who talks to SysAdmins
- 6. Looking for somethingmore advanced?
- 7. Looking for somethingmore advanced? Clayton is next door!
- 8. Looking for somethingmore advanced? Clayton is next door! How I secretly rule the world with buildout and a pen knife.
- 9. How we lookto PHP folks
- 10. How they lookto us.
- 11. Real life, forboth.
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- 13. Stand-Alone Zope / Plone Internet ✤ This works, but … Zope / Plone Port 80 or 8080 ✤ Lacks: ✤ Versatility ✤ SSL ZODB / Blobs ✤ Plays poorly with others
- 14. + Web Server Internet ✤ Modern Web Server as Reverse Web Server Proxy 80 / 443 ✤ Handles SSL ✤ Efficiently queues requests Zope / Plone Port 8080 ✤ Handles URL rewrites ✤ Battle-hardened logging and request sanitizing ZODB / Blobs ✤ Plays well with others
- 15. + Web Apps Internet Web Server 80 / 443 ✤ URL Rewriting makes it easy to map in other best-of-breed Other apps. Zope / Plone Port 8080 Web Apps Ports: ? ✤ Can share special authorization requirements. ZODB / Blobs
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- 17. “Premature optimization is the root of all evil.” Donald Knuth
- 18. “Measure, measure measure. Then act.” E. Leddy Budapest: Keynote Lecture in Appreciation of Donald Knuth
- 19. Load Balancing Load Balancingmeans always having a canon ready to fire. L. DaVinci, Authenticity Disputed
- 20. +ZEO ZEO Client 1 ZEO Client 2 ZEO Client … Port 8081 Port 8082 Ports … ✤ Efficient with modern multi- core processors even on single machines. ZEO Server Port 8000 ✤ Can scale to multiple machines. ✤ A good option even without load balancing: debugging and run scripts. ZODB / Blobs ✤ Pack database by command line utility.
- 21. +Load Internet Web Server 80 / 443 Balancing Load Balancer Port 9000 ✤ Distributes work among ZEO clients. ZEO Client ZEO Client ZEO Client 1 2 … ✤ Can help avoid service Port 8081 Port 8082 Ports … interruptions. ✤ Balancing scheme can matter. ZEO ZODB / Server Port 8000 Blobs
- 22. Proxy Caching “Good cachingmakes light work.” John Heywood, 1546, Often Misquoted.
- 23. +Server Cache Web Server Internet 80 / 443 Proxy Cache Port 6000 ✤ Reverse-Proxy Cache ✤ Typically between web server and load balancer. Load Balancer Port 9000 ✤ Can be on a separate machine. ✤ Cache in memory or on disk. ZEO Cluster
- 24. “Caching is hard.” D. Glick, Cioppino 2012
- 25. plone.app.caching “plone.app.caching is yourfrenemy.” Winston Churchill, 1944, Authenticity Disputed.
- 26. Choosing Tools Take careof your tools and they will take care of you. Traditional
- 27. Web Server Internet 80 / 443 Proxy Cache Best of Breed Port 6000 Approach Load Balancer Port 9000 ZEO Cluster
- 28. Internet Web Server 80 / 443 Nginx Proxy Cache Best of Breed Port 6000 Approach Load Balancer Port 9000 ZEO Cluster
- 29. Internet Web Server 80 / 443 Nginx Proxy Cache Varnish Best of Breed Port 6000 Approach Load Balancer Port 9000 ZEO Cluster
- 30. Internet Web Server 80 / 443 Nginx Proxy Cache Varnish Best of Breed Port 6000 Approach Load Balancer Port 9000 HAProxy ZEO Cluster
- 31. Web Server Internet Web Server Does it All 80 / 443 Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter Proxy Cache necessitatem. Port 6000 (Entities must not be multiplied beyond necessity.) — William of Occam (14th Century SysAdmin) Load Balancer Port 9000 Keep is Simple, Stupid. — Occam’s Razor, translated to modern sysadmin speak ZEO Cluster
- 32. How To? http://collective-docs.readthedocs.org/en/latest/hosting/ Is ThisThe Right Place For This Resource? Good Question!
- 33. “Backup is seriousshit.” E. Leddy, Cioppino 2012
- 34. backup, rsync, restore Is there another way?
- 35. Logs “Rotate your logsor your server will die.” E. Steele, The Missing 18 Minutes
- 36. “sudo apt-get install logrotate” Traditional Proverb, England, 12th Century
- 37. logrotate rules # rotatelogs for client #2 /var/db/plone4.1/zeocluster/var/client2/Z2.log /var/db/plone4.1/zeocluster/var/client2/event.log { rotate 5 weekly sharedscripts postrotate kill -USR2 `cat /var/db/…/client2.pid` endscript }
- 38. Database Packing Early ZODBPacking Tool Leonardo Da Vinci, ~1500
- 39. Better ZODB Packing bin/zeopack -h localhost -p 8000 -d 0
- 40. Platform Setup &Plone Install
- 41. “These days, Iuse system packages as much as possible. You should, too.” E. Leddy, Cioppino 2012
- 42. Unified Installer: Least-Used Feature --with-python=/usr/bin/python2.7
- 43. Unified Installer: Least-Known Feature --clients=client-count
- 44. “Never run buildoutas root.” S. McMahon, PSE, Today
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- 46. Image Credits ✤ cobol: CC by: http://www.flickr.com/photos/philmanker/3654636770/ ✤ complex: CC by: http://www.flickr.com/photos/medea_material/1692344189/ ✤ plant crusher: CC by NC ND: http://www.flickr.com/photos/duanemoore/4908036590/ ✤ diagram: CC by NC SA: http://www.flickr.com/photos/nataliedowne/6446884983/ ✤ blue: CC BY NC ND: http://www.flickr.com/photos/barthanlon/3670183050/ ✤ light timer: CC by NC SA: http://www.flickr.com/photos/dorkstyle/3783421698/ ✤ chain reaction: CC by NC ND: http://www.flickr.com/photos/acplinfo/2315988501/ ✤ Giant Crossbow courtesy of http://www.leonardoda-vinci.org ✤ Centrifuge: CC by SA: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lrosa/515028911/ ✤ Mystery: CC by NC ND: http://www.flickr.com/photos/zeptonn/2631113046/ ✤ Decoder: CC by NC SA: http://www.flickr.com/photos/curiousexpeditions/962394310/ ✤ Screw Gear: CC by NC: http://www.flickr.com/photos/travelinlibrarian/4308521250/ ✤ Worm Gear: CC by NC: http://www.flickr.com/photos/travelinlibrarian/4307997887/ ✤ Pulleys: CC by NC: http://www.flickr.com/photos/travelinlibrarian/4305293959/ ✤ Ball Bearings: CC by: http://www.flickr.com/photos/cristic/312874252/ ✤ Multi-Barrel: CC by NC SA: http://www.flickr.com/photos/malcubed/2930190065/ ✤ Cannons: CC by: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jeanlouis_zimmermann/5554481148/ ✤ Fan: CC by: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jeanlouis_zimmermann/5554419770 ✤ Perpetual Motion: CC by NC SA: http://www.flickr.com/photos/grocel/274933518/