Cleaning up the Kitchen

@ablytheCleaning up the Kitchen

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Lessons• Be Patient/Be Hungry• Look outward– Ask Community– Ask Chef

• You can’t please all the people• Know your constraints and work within them

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Recommendations • Have a focused team - Configuration Management does

not just happen• Focus on the Workflow• Incent your community to work together• Define how your collective organization should use

roles/environments/data bags• Educate!!• Involve Your Friends at Chef

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Aaron Blythe

http://www.meetup.com/DevOps-Kansas-City/

Founded in 1979

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Journey With

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http://www.pxleyes.com/photography-picture/50ccc14f7f012/Fork-Off.html

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ON

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January 2012 – Late March 2012

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We 50+

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Which Chef Server?

What is the admin password?

How is this being backed up?Where did this cookbook come from?

Is this the original cookbook or a fork?

Why is this in production, but not in Staging?

Is this wiki page up to date with which Server to connect to?

Can we double bootstrap it?? ? ? ?

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• Value Proposition of Chef:– Infrastructure as Code• Repeatable/Testable Deployments• Consistency - Staging Like Production

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In Kansas City… One Night Only

• http://www.meetup.com/DevOps-Kansas-City/Adam Jacob!!

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Later that week…

OpsInfra

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Later that Month…

"I have never been in a room with that many system engineers that were all smiling, almost giddy. It was as if we all knew a secret."

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Paul Edelhertz - Interview• Senior VP Customer Ops – Chef• Former CEO – Empath, Inc. (bought by

Navigant)

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Paul Edelhertz - Interview• Ability to persuade through writing is

becoming a lost art– Make the message short– State exactly how I feel – Different mediums but repeat the message over

and over to many people

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Chef – “The List”

• Fuel the love of Chef• Make it easy to be successful• Give organizations reasons to buy• Be their favorite company to work with• Speed matters, be disruptive

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We Believe…• A minimal number of associates need to directly touch

nodes (approaching zero)• These tools matter – improve the lives of our users

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• Tools should be hardened - so that we can find the root cause and drive corrective action

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Identity• Tools Team

• Culture Team

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Workflow

Step 1:Source Code

Step 2:?????

Step 3:Production(Profit!!!)

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RFC’s

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Conway’s Law – Educate who you need to

2 classes * 15 attendess

* Re-delivering to 15-30/month

* Over 1 year__________________200+

https://learn.chef.io/index.html

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$20/Class

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Provide the Platform

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Migration Workshop• 1st rule of teaching:– Control all variables other than the concept you

are focusing on

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Current State of Cookbooks• https://wiki.ucern.com/display/ChefEcosystem/Booksh

elf• 129 Cookbooks listed

– 87% of cookbooks have a metadata.rb. (112/129)– 79% of cookbooks have a cookbooks folder (102/129)– 56% of cookbooks have a Rakefile. (72/129)– 33% of cookbooks have a Berksfile. (42/129)– 30% of cookbooks have a Vagrantfile. (39/129)– 24% of cookbooks have a pom.xml. (31/129)

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Good Migrations

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Success Engineer

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Stephen Lauck

“Usually I show up and I am helping companies go from 0 to 20. You are clearly going from 40 to 60. Keep me in the loop, because I want to continue to be part of your success. We all know the companies that will be able to move fast will be the companies that remain successful in the market.”

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• Push Jobs• Analytics• OpenStack• SuperMarket

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Push Jobs• Value: Orchestration • Review: Overall positive, have-to-have feature

for most of our teams• Drawbacks: Push Jobs 1.x is not very mature

or feature rich. We have seen issues with Networking.

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Analytics• Value: Compliance/Auditing for non-coders• Review: Interesting need to see latest version.

We get asked about creating this functionality regularly… Future features look promising.

• Drawbacks: Early versions search slightly confusing. Filtering was not working right so very busy.

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OpenStack Integration• Decision (At this point): Heat Templates

• Still really want to see chef-provisioning mature

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SuperMarket • Value: Helps lock down our pipeline• Review: Decided that we need a better pipeline

first.• Drawbacks: Early on was not ready for RHEL,

hacked something together, but need to revisit. Authorization model not there for an Enterprise (CCLA not applicable).

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March toward Continuous Integration/

Continuous Delivery

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Where are we now?• We are at about the 1 year mark of a focused

well oiled system• Have over 3000 Chef nodes involved with

100’s of separate systems/sub-systems• Over 400 user accounts created on the server

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Wat ta do about CD?• Jenkins – Workflow Plugin• Go.cd• Chef Delivery• All the wonderful things we have seen at the

booths here

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Blocker – Sensitive Flaguser 'zabbix' do shell '/sbin/nologin' comment 'Zabbix Monitoring System' supports manage_home: true node.run_state['zabbix_password'] = SecureRandom.base64(36) password node.run_state['zabbix_password'] gid 'zabbix' unless platform_family?('windows') sensitive true action [:create, :lock] endend

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Centralized vs. Decentralized

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Open Source• 6 associates contribute to core Chef• Another 15 or so contribute to Cookbooks in

SuperMarket

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Lessons• Be Patient/Be Hungry• Look outward– Ask Community– Ask Chef

• You can’t please all the people• Know your constraints and work within them

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Recommendations• Have a focused team - Configuration Management does

not just happen• Focus on the Workflow• Incent your community to work together• Define how your collective organization should use

roles/environments/data bags• Educate!!• Involve Your Friends at Chef

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What do you think? @ablythe

aaron.blythe@gmail.com http://www.slideshare.net/AaronBlythe/ Community room next session 3-4PM