VMworld 2015 San Francisco - INF5432 - Infrastructure as Code - Ban Snowflake Deployments

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INFRASTRUCTURE AS CODE
BAN SNOWFLAKE SERVERS

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Jonas Rosland
Developer Advocate
EMC {code}
@jonasrosland
Loves retro gaming
Talks a lot

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Reid Vandewiele
Solutions Engineer
Puppet Labs®
@reidmv
Biking, Hiking
Code

WHAT IS DEVOPS?

AN IDEA OR COLLABORATIVE
CULTURE/PHILOSOPHY BETWEEN
TECHNICAL TEAMS

UNIFIED PROCESSES AND TOOLS
FOR FASTER END-TO-END DELIVERY
OF QUALITY SOFTWARE

NOT A JOB DESCRIPTION!

SO WHY SHOULD YOU
CARE?

YOU CAN'T WAIT 6 MONTHS FOR A
FEATURE UPGRADE/BUG FIX/ETC

SOLVE CONFIGURATION DRIFT
ISSUES QUICKLY

KNOW EXACTLY WHAT'S WRONG,
WHERE AND WHY

http://46zwyrvli634e39iq2l9mv8g.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/DevOps-infinity-loop2.png

LAST BUT NOT LEAST, IMPROVE
TEAM COMMUNICATION

SO WHAT'S THE RESULT OF
DEVOPS?

IT'S REALLY BIG
ACTUALLY...

DEVOPS PRACTICES AND IT
PERFORMANCE IMPACT
ORGANIZATIONAL PERFORMANCE
http://www.slideshare.net/realgenekim/2014-state-of-devops-findings-velocity-conference

LET'S START WITH
INFRASTRUCTURE AS
CODE

WHAT DO WE DEFINE AS
INFRASTRUCTURE?

• Deploy, monitor and connect together all the pieces
needed to run services for the organization
• Processes and tools for faster end-to-end delivery of
quality services
• Automation comes built-in
WHY DEFINE INFRASTRUCTURE AS CODE?

• Desired state specified in text files
• Autonomic (self-corrects to desired state)
• State should be known through monitoring
• Remove snowflake servers
HOW DO WE DO THIS?

• Easy to read and edit
• Shareable
• Can use standard version control like Git or SVN
• Becomes executable documentation
WHY STORE THEM IN TEXT FILES?

node 'www2' {
class { 'apache': } # use apache module
apache::vhost { 'awesomewebsite.com': # define vhost
port => '80',
docroot => '/var/www/html'
}
}
SIMPLE EXAMPLE

user { root:
ensure => present,
password => '$ecretP@ssw0rd',
}
CHANGE ROOT PASSWORD

MANUALLY CONFIGURED
ENVIRONMENTS ARE LIKE A HOUSE
OF CARDS IN A CHINA SHOP
- NEAL FORD

• Deploying, provisioning and scaling automatically is
virtually impossible if every server is unique
• Adds friction between the requestor and the deployer
• Mistakes happen
• We're all human
SNOWFLAKE SERVERS

WHAT CAN HAPPEN IF YOU
DON'T TREAT
INFRASTRUCTURE AS CODE?

UP TO 60% OF FAILURES ARE
CAUSED BY HUMAN ERROR, NOT
HARDWARE FAILURE

EXAMPLE - KNIGHT CAPITAL GROUP
https://infocus.emc.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/KCG.jpg

• Manual deployment of new trading software
• 7 of 8 servers correctly updated
• Old function still alive on the 8th server led to…
KNIGHT CAPITAL GROUP - WHAT HAPPENED?

$440 MILLION LOSS
IN 45 MINUTES

SO

TREAT YOUR
INFRASTRUCTURE AS
CODE

BARE METAL  APP STACK

• Razor
– Text / JSON configuration
– Bare-metal provisioning
– Policy based
• Puppet
– Text configuration manifests
– Software configuration management

OS – DNS – DHCP - DB
Storage – Network - Compute
RAZOR

OS – DNS – DHCP - DB
Storage – Network - Compute
App Queue
Business
Logic
PUPPET

STARTING ENVIRONMENT:
One Razor Server
One Puppet Server

LIVE DEMO

Boot
PXE To
Razor
OS
Installed
Puppetize! Decommission
One-time Provisioning
Lifetime Management

• Self documenting infrastructure
• You now have source code for how anything in your
datacenter is setup
• Executable documentation
RECAP OF THE BENEFITS

ALRIGHT

THEN WHAT?

HOW ABOUT
AUTOMATING SOME
MORE?

• Jenkins CI
• Travis CI
• Codeship
• CloudFoundry
• OpenShift
DEPLOYMENT AUTOMATION

• Docker
• Framework for application container management
• HUGE community
CONTAINERS

• Splunk
• Loggly
• LogInsight
• ELK Stack
– ElasticSearch
– LogStash
– Kibana
LOG MANAGEMENT

• vCenter Operations
• New Relic
• AppDynamics
• DataDog
PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT

• Nagios
• Sensu
• VictorOps
• PagerDuty
MONITORING

• Slack
• HipChat
• Trello
• Asana
COMMUNICATION

• Github
• Quip
COLLABORATION

• And by smartly we mean cooperatively between
Devs and Ops
• Will help operators understand what's running and
happening in the infrastructure
• Will give developers insight into the underlying
infrastructure and the way it behaves under load
USE THESE TOOLS SMARTLY

• Start talking about it
• Choose low-hanging fruit
• Learn, make wrong decisions, learn again
• Involve the broader team
– Give books, presentations, blog posts etc.
SO HOW DO WE GET STARTED?

QUESTIONS?
Jonas Rosland
Developer Advocate @ EMC {code}
@jonasrosland

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