Brian Cory Sherwin Site Reliability Engineer

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AutoRemediation and Workflow @ LinkedIn

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• Key Concepts• Work Flow Ideas• LinkedIn’s Solution

Agenda

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• Monitoring Systems • Remediation Systems• Action Systems

Separation of Powers

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Restart An Application• Grab some logs• Start an application• Open a ticket

Simple Work Flow Example

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Key Goals• Broker between action systems• Linear Execution of Events• Collaboration and ease of use• Focus on Simple use cases

Building an AutoRemedation @ LinkedIn

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• Guaranteed Data Collection• Better Accountability• Formalized automation• Extensibility

Why Use a Workflow

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• Linear Execution• Best Effort• Limited Work Flow Control

Work Flow @ LinkedIn

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Work Flow Control Types• Best Effort• Guaranteed• Abort• OnFailure (planned)

LinkedIn: Work Flow Control

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• Brian Cory Sherwin (bcs)• LinkedIn• bsherwin@linkedin

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