Slides from Drupalcon session "'Don't Touch That Server': A toolkit for zero-touch production environments"

1. Don’t Touch that
Server: A Toolkit for
“Zero Touch”

2. I used to work for a very big company
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3. And we sold to a lot of big companies
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4. We sold them a lot of FUD!
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5. We sold them a lot of FUD!
I mean that in a good way
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6. We sold them a lot of FUD!
I mean that in a good way
(I still own a lot of stock!)
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7. Of course, we called it “IT Governance”
Provide
Direction
Set Objectives
• Align with the business
• Enable business IT Activities
• Maximize benefits • Increase business
• Use resources effectiveness
Compare
responsibly • Decrease cost
• Mange Risk • Manage risks
Measure
Performance
Source: IT Governance Institute
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8. And had really expensive tools to support it
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9. Then, I discovered something simpler
Before Drupal I thought
the next big thing was
Rails
They had a great stack of
tools!
Git
Rake
Capistrano
CruiseControl
Selenium
And they were FREE!
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10. And then, I found Acquia and Drupal
We had some tools, too
CVS
I was confused . . .
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11. Didn’t big companies use Drupal?
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13. What tools are available?
Drupal tools
System tools
Development tools
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14. Drupal tools
Features
Spaces
Strongarm
Drush
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15. System tools
Con guration
management
Execution tools
Log management
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16. Puppet
Declarative language for
system con guration
Basic concepts
Nodes
Classes
De nes (macros)
Types
Modular and extensible
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17. Remote Execution
Func–“Fedora Uni ed
Network Controller”
From the home page:
“Func allows for
running commands on
remote systems in a
secure way, like SSH,
but offers several
improvements.”
Supported on RHEL and
Fedora
Does it break the rules?
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18. Log Management
“How will we see the
logs?”
You need to centralize
Syslog
Splunk
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19. Development tools
Version management
Build tools
Continuous integration
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20. Continuous integration and builds
Admin Console
CI Server
Poll
Source
Developer
Control Build
Workstation
Server Output
Fileserver
Checkout
Build Slave
Test Execution
Commands Dev Tools
Setup
Commands
Test Staging
Test Web Tra c Staging
Server
Automation Staging
Server
Server Server
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21. Continuous integration and builds
Syntax checking
Admin Console
Testing Poll
CI Server
Simpletest Source
Developer
Control
Selenium
Workstation
Server
Build
Output
Fileserver
Packaging Checkout
Build Slave
Test Execution
Deployment Commands Dev Tools
Setup
Commands
Test Staging
Test Web Tra c Staging
Server
Automation Staging
Server
Server Server
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22. Build tools
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23. Build tools
Phing
written (and extended)
in PHP
XML build description
Built-in PHPish tasks
PHPLint
PDOSQLExec
many others ...
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24. What about content?
Split “in-house” editing
from production
Deploy
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25. Roadblocks and limitations
“The Staging Problem”
Metadata and data in
the same store
Enabling Features
Managing authorization
Database updates
Rollback?
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26. The Deployment Manifest
Steps to take as part of
deployment
Enable features &
modules
Manage roles
Clear cache
Update DB
Simple syntax
XML, YAML, JSON, etc.
Drives Drush
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