This document discusses running Plone on AWS. It describes moving from a single server monolith to a cloud-optimized architecture using orchestration. The process involved refactoring to support different operating systems like Amazon Linux, CentOS, and FreeBSD. Improving the developer experience remains an ongoing effort, such as supporting environment variables, local development, and custom app deployment.

1. RUNNINGPLONEONAWS
2020EDITION
CALVINHENDRYX-PARKER,CTO
SIXFEETUP
https://github.com/calvinhp/2020_PloneConf_RunningPloneonAWS

2. SIXFEETUPISHIRING!!

3. BEAUTIFULUNIQUESNOWFLAKESARE
NOTREPRODUCIBLE.

4. PETS

5. CATTLE

6. FROMTHECLOSETTOTHECLOUD

7. SINGLESERVERMONOLITH

8. CLOUDOPTIMIZED

9. NETWORKCOMPLEXITY

10. BITOFACHICKENANDEGGPROBLEM

11. ORCHESTRATE!
And build a test environment
$ salt-run state.orchestrate orch.deploy-environment pillarenv=prod
$ salt-run state.orchestrate orch.deploy-environment pillarenv=test

12. SOUNDSTOOEASY
The road was bumpy for sure.
Satisfying the rules for no special cases was tricky.

13. MINDFULNESS
There should be one, and preferably only one,
obvious way to do it. Although that way may
not be obvious at rst unless you’re Dutch. –
The Zen of Python

14. THEJOURNEYOF3OPERATING
SYSTEMS
»
2a67758 Editing requirements to run properly on
amazon linux
»
472d844 Refactoring to run CentOS 7 machines
»
dd67b7a Refactoring for FreeBSD
What happened here?

15. THEROADFORWARD

16. DEMO

17. DEVELOPEREXPERIENCE

19. WHAT’SMISSING?
» Passing Environment Variables
» Local Dev of Theme and Apps
» Build and Deploy of Custom Bits

20. THANKS!
CALVIN@SIXFEETUP.COM
@calvinhp
https://github.com/calvinhp/2020_PloneConf_RunningPloneonAWS

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