Introduction to Automation slides for a talk that was delivered at the 2015 Madison PHP Conference

1. AIN’T NOBODY GOT TIME FOR THAT!
MATT FROST
@SHRTWHITEBLDGUY
HTTPS://JOIND.IN/16027

2. WHO AM I?
INTRODUCTION

3. WHAT IS AUTOMATION?
DEFINITION

4. WHY AUTOMATE?
DEFINING PURPOSE

5. • TASKS BECOME CLEARLY DEFINED IN ONE LOCATION
• OFFERS AN OPPORTUNITY TO REFINE PROCESSES
• ELIMINATES PROCESS VARIATION
• ELIMINATES DISRUPTIONS
WHY AUTOMATE?

6. WHAT WE’LL COVER

7. • CHALLENGES
• WHAT/WHERE/WHEN/WHY/HOW?
• OVERVIEW OF AUTOMATION TOOLS/TECHNIQUES
WHAT WE’LL COVER

8. AUTOMATION CHALLENGES
CHALLENGES

9. • REQUIRES A STRONG UNDERSTANDING OF THE PROCESS
• REQUIRES A LOT OF TRUST IN THE PROCESS
• REQUIRES A PLAN IF SOMETHING GOES SIDEWAYS
AUTOMATION CHALLENGES

10. HOW DO WE AUTOMATE?
OBJECTIVE

11. • TOOLS
• SCRIPTING
• EXPERIENCE
HOW DO WE AUTOMATE?

12. WHERE CAN WE AUTOMATE?
OBJECTIVE

13. • LOCALLY
• DEV ENVIRONMENTS
• PRODUCTION
WHERE CAN WE AUTOMATE

14. LOCALLY
WHERE CAN WE AUTOMATE?

15. WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT ALL THE
THINGS YOU HAVE TO DO TO START
WORKING, IT’S ANNOYING RIGHT?

16. THERE ARE SOME
EASY OPTIONS…BUT

17. ALFRED!

18. SWEET RIGHT?

19. WORKFLOWS!

21. LOCAL SCRIPTING

22. TOOLS

23. DEPLOYMENT/CI
• PHING
• JENKINS
• ANSIBLE
• TRAVIS CI
• CUSTOM SHELL SCRIPTS

24. MONITORING
• NEW RELIC
• PINGDOM
• CUSTOM SHELL SCRIPTS
• TESTING TOOLS

25. TESTING TOOLS
• PHPUNIT
• PHPSPEC
• BEHAT
• CODECEPTION
• RUNSCOPE

26. PROVISIONING
• ANSIBLE
• CHEF
• PUPPET
• SHELL SCRIPTS

27. THERE ARE OPTIONS
YOU DON’T NEED ALL THESE TOOLS
BUT…

28. CREATING A
SOLUTION

29. SERVER DEPLOYMENT
CREATING A SOLUTION

30. DIGITAL OCEAN API
CREATING A SOLUTION

33. I DON’T WANT TO CLICK THAT
MANY TIMES…
CREATING A SOLUTION

34. ANSIBLE
CREATING A SOLUTION

35. SERVER SETUP CAN BE HARD
CREATING A SOLUTION

36. HERE’S WHAT I NEEDED
CREATING A SOLUTION
• PHP (AND DEPS)
• MYSQL (AND DEPS)
• APACHE (I KNOW…)
• WORDPRESS CONFIGS

37. ANSIBLE STRUCTURE
CREATING A SOLUTION

38. ROLES
• Files
• Handlers
• Meta
• Tasks
• Templates
• Vars

39. PLAYBOOK

40. ---
- name: Install Apache2
apt: pkg=apache2 state=installed update_cache=true
register: apache2
- name: Install Apache2 MPM Prefork
apt: pkg=apache2-pmp-prefork state=installed
when: apache2|success
register: prefork
- name: Install Apache2 MPM Prefork
apt: pkg=apache2-pmp-prefork state=installed
when: apache2|success
register: prefork

41. ---
- hosts: bd
roles:
- setup
- iptables-setup
- apache2-setup
- mysql-setup
- php-setup
- users-setup
PLAYBOOK EXAMPLE

42. PHING
CREATING A SOLUTION

43. CONSIDERATIONS
CREATING A SOLUTION

44. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project name="BDSO" default="build" basedir="./">
<property file="bdso.properties" />
<target name="composer">
<echo msg="Composer automatic updates aren't enabled at this point" />
<echo msg="Running self-update on composer" />
<exec command="sudo composer self-update" passthru="true" />
<echo msg="Installing new dependencies (if necessary)" />
<exec command="composer install --no-dev --no-scripts" passthru="true" />
</target>
<target name="build">
<phingcall target="composer" />
</target>
COMPOSER INSTALL WITH PHING

45. INSTALLING PHING
CREATING A SOLUTION
“phing/phing”: “2.*”

46. RUNNING PHING
CREATING A SOLUTION
vendor/bin/phing -f path/to/build.xml

47. BASH SCRIPTING
CREATING A SOLUTION

48. SCRIPTING COMMANDS
CREATING A SOLUTION

49. MY FAVORITE UNIX COMMAND
find ./ -type f -name ‘*.php’ -print0 | xargs -0 grep -n ‘SearchTerm’
finder -s ‘SearchTerm’

50. MONITORING WITH SHELL
SCRIPTS
CREATING A SOLUTION

51. THE BASICS
CREATING A SOLUTION
• MAKE SURE SERVICES ARE RUNNING
• CHECK SERVER LOAD
• NOTIFICATIONS

52. SIMPLICITY OVER ALL ELSE
CONCLUSION

53. SECURITY
CONCLUSION

54. AUTOMATION IS ATTAINABLE
CONCLUSION

55. QUESTIONS?
CONCLUSION

56. FEEDBACK
CONCLUSION
https://joind.in/16027
Twitter: @shrtwhitebldguy
IRC: mfrost503