Puppet, Jenkins, and continuous integration (CI) were discussed. The presentation covered installing Jenkins as a master and slaves using Puppet, integrating Github pull requests with Jenkins and Mergeatron, and testing Puppet code with tools like Puppet Lint, Rspec-Puppet, and eventually running Puppet code on VMs. Future work may involve catalog checking and running Puppet code against real systems.

1. Puppet, Jenkins & CI
SNAP Interactive, Inc.
Presented by:
Matthew Barr
Technical Architect
Thursday, February 21, 13

2. Company Overview
• SNAP Interactive, Inc.
• AreYouInterested.com
• Believes it is one of the largest social discovery platforms on the web
(based on monthly active users)
• More than 5 million monthly active users
• Over 1 billion total pieces of structured data from its users
• Synced to millions of Facebook profiles
• Receives over 1,000 real-time updates per minute on like actions from
Facebook
• Subscription-based business model
• SNAP is publicly traded - Ticker: STVI
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3. About me
• Team lead for the operations group
• Sysadmin for over 15 years
• Dev/ops, WebOps, etc.
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4. Continuous Integration
• The practice of frequently integrating one's
new or changed code with the existing code
repository
• Maintain a • Make the • Everyone
code build self- can see the
repository testing results of the
latest build
• Automate • Keep the
the build build fast
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5. Puppet
• Puppet Labs
• https://puppetlabs.com/
• You’re at PuppetNYC :)
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6. Jenkins
• An extendable open source continuous integration
server
• http://jenkins-ci.org/
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7. So, let’s do this!
• Puppet Dynamic Environments
• Install Jenkins (master)
• Install Jenkins slaves (swarm clients)
• Mergeatron
• Puppet Parsing & Linting
• Puppet Testing
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8. Puppet Dynamic Env’s
• google: puppet dynamic environments
• Git based
• Each branch is it’s own environment
• Commit hook / web
• https://puppetlabs.com/blog/git-workflow-
and-puppet-environments/
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9. Jenkins install
• puppet module install rtyler-jenkins
• Puppet forge module: rtyler/puppet-jenkins
• But: this code hasn’t been merged :(
• It’s in my github repo:
• https://github.com/matthewbarr/puppet-
jenkins
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10. Jenkins Master
include jenkins
jenkins::plugin {'swarm':}
OR
class {'jenkins':
lts => 1, # Long term Stable version
repo => 0, # Disable Jenkins repo config
}
jenkins::plugin {'swarm':}
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11. Jenkins Slave: Easy!
include jenkins::slave
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12. Jenkins Slave: Features!
class {'jenkins::slave':
masterurl => 'http://jenkins01.ayisnap.com:8080',
ui_user => 'UI_USER',
ui_pass => 'UI_PASS',
# version => '1.8',
executors => 4,
# manage_slave_user => 1,
slave_user => $slave_user,
slave_uid => '600',
slave_home => $slave_home,
}
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13. Github
• Private repos for organizations
• Pull Requests!
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14. Demo!
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15. PR: Swarm plugin code
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16. Mergeatron
• Developed in house
• Open Source
• Nodejs
• Not yet in NPM :(
• http://snapinteractive.github.com/
mergeatron/
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17. Mergeatron ^2
• Monitors github (or other) for a pull
request
• Triggers a Jenkins “build”
• Build can do anything: unit tests, etc
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18. Mergeatron ^3
• We use it to monitor 2 repo’s
• Web site code
• phpunit
• phpcs
• jshint
• Ops repo (Puppet) - puppet parser
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19. Puppet Testing
• Puppet Lint
• http://puppet-lint.com/
• Rspec-Puppet
• http://rspec-puppet.com/
• ERB Parsing:erb
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-­‐T
'-­‐'
mytempl.erb
|
ruby
-­‐c
• Cucumber-puppet
• (Discontinued.)
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20. Puppet Testing - Future
• Parsing is a nice start
• Catalog checks can help, especially for
supporting systems & edge cases
• Actually running it, though, is the only real
test that matters.
• VM’s, functional / unit tests agains real
systems that deliver your app.
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21. Updates
• Catalog checker w/ other facts- Ohad Levy:
• https://github.com/ohadlevy/manitest
• Github Pull Request Checker for Jenkins
• https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/GitHub+pull+request+builder+plugin
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22. Contact Us
• SNAP Interactive, Inc.
www.snap-interactive.com
• Matthew Barr
Technical Architect
mbarr@snap-interactive.com
Twitter & Github:
@MatthewBarr
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Thursday, February 21, 13