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!