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The Automated Monolith
The document outlines a strategy for automating deployments using Docker and Azure, emphasizing principles such as business value and composability. It details the steps involved in building and deploying Docker images, setting up monitoring and logging, and improving deployment efficiency from one week to just 30 minutes. Future plans include moving to production, allowing client version selection, and exploring various cloud solutions.
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The Automated Monolith
- 1. The Automated Monolith MarcoSeifried (@marcoseifried) Tora Onaca (ro.linkedin.com/in/toravasilescu) Paul Vidrascu (ro.linkedin.com/in/paulvidrascu) dev.haufe-lexware.com github.com/Haufe-Lexware @HaufeDev Build, Deploy and Testing using Docker, Docker Compose, Docker Machine, go.cd and Azure
- 2. http://devops.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/2011.09.18_code_reviews.png No need todouble check this change list, if some problems remain the reviewer will catch them No need to look at this change list to closely, I‘m sure the author knows what he‘s doing
- 3. Haufe Strategy -Architecture Principles Business value over technical strategy Strategic goals over project-specific benefits Composability over silos Shared services over specific-purpose implementations Evolutionary refinement over pursuit of initial perfection Design for obsoleteness over building for eternity Good enough over best of breed Declarative processes over implicit knowledge
- 4. What do wewant to achieve? Speed Business value in manual deployments? Reduce Error Prepare for change
- 5. How? Container Infrastructure As Code ImmutableServers Blue / Green Deployments
- 6. Project and Approach Features:User-, License- & Subscription Management Goal: Microservices, fully automated deployment, APIs Start: Fully automated deployment First iteration: Automated test environment per client on Azure
- 7. How – AutomationTools and Technologies Continuous Delivery // pipelines to run scripts // create docker images // deploy onto Azure Bitbucket – repository for config Deploy in Azure Artifactory - Internal docker repository for images Run anywhere, describe everything in dockerfiles
- 8. How – AutomationComponents and Flow
- 9. Break down –step 0 Independent on the pipeline execution, every time an artifact is built in TFS it is then pushed in the Haufe Artifactory.
- 10. Step 1 –building the Docker images A new commit in the BitBucket repository triggers the pipeline. The pipeline contains steps for building all the needed images (app server, db server, JMS server, logging, monitoring, test)
- 11. Step 1 –building the Docker images (cont.) Logging Docker logs not enough Alternative – docker exec and accessing the log files Map external volume and copy logs there Best alternative: use what everyone else does and works like a charm: Kibana + ElasticSearch + Fluentd Monitoring See the status of the containers using Cadvisor influxDb Grafana
- 12. Step 2 –Deploy and Run
- 13. Summary Two months effortto get to Azure, distributed teams across two countries Creation of dev environment reduced from one week to 30 minutes Docker is constantly improving (improved networking, built in drivers, etc) Baseline for future improvements What’s next: Move this along to production Allow clients to choose the version of the images to use Improve some startup times Try out different cloud solutions
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Editor's Notes
- #3 One of the reasons considering automation
- #4 We spoke about this in the previous presentation about API Management Breaking down Declarative processes over implicit knowledge: Have automation wherever you can
- #5 So we have the technical reasoning behind it (technology strategy), but what for? Why should we spend money on this, what‘s in it? Be prepared for change: For example. how to be hosting agnostic?
- #6 Containers give us the possiblity to run in house, to run at hosters, to run in the cloud Infrastructure as a code: no more implicit knowledge in the head of people. Treat it as code. Build up from scratch -> no updates, no hot-fixes, no manual changes -> immutable servers, infrastructure as code
- #7 Approach: Not all at once, nothing comes for free BUT – it took us not long to get to the first iteration
- #9 What‘s go.cd, what‘s artifactory, bitbucket – all those are there. The rest isn‘t and gets automatically created Idea of using pipelines, explain high level each pipeline – how are they triggered, … This can be the base for a lot of things – but it‘s one fully automated flow. What do we plan to do next?
- #10 Easy step – whenever a new artifact is built in TFS it is pushed in the Haufe artifactory Show in browser
- #11 Show the actual scripts in the browser Open BitBucket, go.cd and the Haufe registry
- #12 Things we get almost for free – logging and monitoring What does each do and show the log console and the monitoring site
- #13 Once again, at every step show the browser with the pipeline go.cd linux agent runs docker commands (using the Docker plugin – which basically does what a build script would do – build the image, login in the artifactory, push it there) Docker compose is run in Azure (gets all the images from the Haufe artifactory) EFK HGSP + OpenAM Monitoring go.cd Windows agent runs power shell commands – in our case for opening the ports at the end, once the deployment environment is done, the test containers are run (docker compose – maven junit and SoapUI tests in Linux)