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1. WordPress DevOps
For Beginners
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Stewart Ritchie
@stewartritchie
stewart@poweredbycoffee.co.uk

2. This is NOT
a Tutorial
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3. What is Dev Ops
anyway?
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4. Why is Dev Ops
Important?
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5. 1. DevOps will make you a
better developer.
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6. 2. DevOps will help you
deliver better work to your
clients
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7. 3. DevOps helps move
WordPress into bigger
companies and
opportunities
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8. How Does Dev Ops Help?
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1. Collaboration
2. Code Sharing
3. Automation

9. 1. Collaboration
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10. Version Control
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Easy for developers to collaborate
A hardened nuclear bunker for your source code
Makes it easy to have more that one version of your project!
Basically a time machine

11. What is a “Commit”?
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13. Merging Version Control
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- Gives you the ability to manage different versions of your software
- Development, Staging & Production
- Approve code to move up the versions into production

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19. 2. Code Sharing
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20. Dependencies
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21. WordPress Has
Dependencies
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- Diff by Geoffrey T. Bairiki
- ID3 by James Heinrich
- BackBone & Underscores

22. The Problem with
dependancies is that they
can change
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23. What About Your Project?
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24. Your Dependancies
- have dependencies
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25. What About Your Project?
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26. This Sounds Like a
Nightmare
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27. getcomposer.org

30. Composer & WordPress
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https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/23912
https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/36335

31. bower.io

32. Can Bite You
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33. Easy Ways To Get Started
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34. 3. Automation
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35. Repetition Sucks
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Mistakes Get Made
People Get Bored
Creative people usually don't like to do the same thing over and over again.
Not a good use of skills and talent

36. Need to do it twice?
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37. Need to do it twice?
Automate it.
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38. Good Candidates for
Automation
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Deployments
Compiling Assets (Sass, CoffeeScript, etc)
Compressing Images
Setting up servers
Installing WordPress

39. I Hate FTP
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40. Automated Deployments
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No more slow or failed FTP transfers
Easily tied into your version control
Easily undo a mistake
Get new code into production with a few key stokes or clicks

41. http://capistranorb.com

42. Capistrano
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- Scriptable and self-installed
- Ruby
- Task Based
- Logs in to your server, pulls from your Version Control, runs a series of tasks
you tell it to.
- Super powerful and flexible

43. Deploy HQ Deploy Bot Buddy

44. DeployBot (etc)
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- Many of these services exist
- Hard to configure but just works when its done
- $/£/€
- Less control and less flexible but easier to setup

45. Standardising
Environments
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46. Use Virtual Machines
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47. vagrantup.com

49. Concluding
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50. Its going to take a while
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51. These aren’t WordPress
Skills
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52. They are Professional
Development Skills
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53. Where To Go Next?
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- Automated Testing (Never ship something broken again)
- Visual Regression Testing (Make CSS changes less painful)
- Code Quality Checks (Stop bad code getting into your repo or near a server)
- Install Software on your servers with a few keystrokes
- Notifications and Integration with your other tools