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Fourth Generation Configuration Management

Eric Sorenson
February 04, 2019

Fourth Generation Configuration Management

Keynote talk at Configuration Management Camp 2018.

Summary of the evolutionary changes in configuration management and challenges for the discipline in cloud native infrastructure.

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DcyRmEx0qY

Eric Sorenson

February 04, 2019
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  1. Fourth Generation Config
    Management
    Eric Sorenson // @ahpook // [email protected]

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  2. soundcloud.com/ahpook

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  6. 1. Primordial Soup
    2. Refinement
    3. Specialization
    4. Synthesis
    FOUR
    GENERATIONS

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  7. (0).
    In the beginning
    was the command line

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  9. recury:~ root#

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  10. 1.
    Primordial Soup

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  14. 2.
    Refinement

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  17. nigel
    ben hughes
    lutterkort
    littleidea
    me
    (still bald)
    nasrat
    (obviously)
    luke
    kartar
    ripienaar

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  19. 3.
    Specialization

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  21. Source: Donnie Berkholz, Redmonk 2015

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  22. Runs on a platform
    Designed for:
    • Resiliency
    • Agility
    • Operability
    • Observability

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  23. Infrastructure as Code
    Infrastructure as
    Software

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  25. 4.
    Synthesis

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  26. DSL
    Model
    Driven
    Imperative
    Agent
    Based
    Remote
    Raw
    language
    UX Engine Endpoints
    cfengine ✔ ✔ ✔
    isconf ✔ (Make) ✔ ✔
    puppet ✔ ✔ ✔
    chef ✔ (Ruby) ✔ ✔
    ansible ✔ (YAML) ✔ ✔
    terraform ✔ ✔ ✔

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  27. • Loops
    • Explicit templating
    • Strong type checking
    • Internal DAG and “true” dry-run mode
    • Both Push and Pull
    • Python DSL*

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  29. github.com/puppetlabs/bolt

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  31. DSL
    Model
    Driven
    Imperative
    Agent
    Based
    Remote
    Raw
    language
    UX Engine Endpoints
    puppet ✔ ✔ ✔
    bolt ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
    ansible ✔ (YAML) ✔ ✔
    opsmop ✔ (Python) ✔ ✔ ✔

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  32. (5).
    Singularity

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