Beyond Ad-hoc Automation: Leveraging Structured Platforms

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Beyond Ad-hoc Automation Leveraging Structured Platforms

Bridget Kromhout

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Bridget Kromhout

lives: Minneapolis,

Minnesota

works: Pivotal

podcasts: Arrested DevOps

organizes: devopsdays

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let’s talk platforms…

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let’s talk platforms…

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also true for infrastructure as code.

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roadmap: high-level*

*details: the devil is in them

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Previously, on Platform Tales…

Docker in Production: Reality, Not Hype

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Deconstructing a monolithic

Python/Django app into…

(as was the style at the time)

Go microservices

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Containerized builds

runs tests

creates versioned deployable artifacts

standardizes development environment

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Continuous Integration & Continuous Delivery

concourse.ci

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“Great job on those

zero-downtime

blue-green deployments!”

—no CEO ever

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canary deployments

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tech decisions: a Markov bot against HN

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tech decisions: a Markov bot against HNprobably not

^

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Just because you can…

…doesn’t mean you should.

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promises

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reasonable constraints

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monitoring & alerting

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Visibility into operations

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Before choosing to alert…

decide if

intervention is needed.

immediate

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autoscaling EC2 instances

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navigating infrastructure choices

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“To always be

shipping, you need a

shipyard”

Bret Mogilefsky of 18F, on cloud.gov

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Thank you!