1. The Road to Hybrid Cloud is
Paved with Automation
Michael Ducy
Chef
@mfdii

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Linux Engineer
Operations
Performance and Capacity
Cloud Architect
Automation
Chef
MBA, MS

4. "L'enfer est plein de bonnes
volontés et désirs" (hell is full of
good wishes and desires).
-Saint Bernard of Clairvaux (1150

7. P2V Your Technical Debt
For Fun and Profit

8. Why the technical debt?

9. Failure to capture configurations

10. Large cumbersome automation

11. Low perceived value of automation

12. Images are all I need

13. I’ll do it tomorrow

14. Enter Hybrid Cloud

19. Magic
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20. Magic
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21. Problems
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VMs are heavy
C2Cing your technical debt
Large management overhead
Doesn’t really realize the benefits of Cloud

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Magic
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Automation
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24. Solutions
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Configs lighter than VMs
Reduces moving data already in your Clouds
Can leverage things like SCM
Define once, run anywhere

25. Problems
• Requires discipline
• Doesn’t solve data issues
• Requires upfront investment of time

26. Perspective

27. The question isn’t: how do I get a
server, defined by VM (or instance)
into another Cloud to serve my
application

28. The question is: how do I get a
server, defined by a set of finite
configurations, into another Cloud
to serve my application

29. "hell is full of good meanings, but
heaven is full of good works"

30. ”IT hell is full of good
meanings, but Cloud is full of good
works"

31. Some things I’ve seen work
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Ignore legacy
Focus on Cloud first
Get development buy-in to change app stack
Build Composable, Data Driven Automation

32. Infrastructure as Code

33. TDD of Infrastructure Code

34. Leverages the years
of SDLC Experience

35. Repeatable and Reusable

36. Questions?

37. The Road to Hybrid Cloud is
Paved with Automation
Michael Ducy
Chef
@mfdii