Relay by Puppet: the Next Leg

Introduces a new SaaS product for devops automation we've been working on: relay.sh

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1. Relay:
   The Next Leg
   Eric Sorenson // eric@puppet.com // @ahpook
   

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2. /usr/bin/whoami
   sysadmin / sre / bad coder
   large scale config mgmt practitioner
   technical product manager
   guitarist and synthesist
   pinball game renter
   

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4. © Puppet 2020, All rights reserved.
   Cloud adoption has shifted the center
   of gravity for automation
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   Today
   • Model/task-driven automation
   • OSs, hardware, apps, VMs, hypervisor
   • Config management is king
   Tomorrow
   • Event-driven orchestration
   • APIs, services, serverless, K8s, container platforms
   • Config management is a smaller part of the infra stack
   Cloud
   On-prem
   

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5. I need a complete solution to
   continuously deploy applications
   and infrastructure that provides:
   ● Simple deployment workflows built
   on using existing tools
   ● Support for multiple deployment
   targets
   ● Includes smart canaries, B/G
   deployments & automated rollback
   ● Lightweight governance and
   auditability
   ● Application deployment performance
   insights
   Nebula
   Project Nebula
   DEPLOY
   BUILD +
   TEST
   PROVISION ROLLBACK
   DEVOPS
   APP DEV
   GitOps CLI CI
   Existing
   CI tools
   Step Ecosystem
   

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6. Cloud
   Native
   Resource
   Creation
   CN
   Resource
   Orchestration
   CN
   Workflow
   Automation
   Lyra
   endgame
   ● Combine forces with Nebula
   ● Contribute upstream to Tekton / CDF
   ● Integrate with other adjacent projects
   

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7. Lesson 1: CD is Hard. Really Hard.
   source: jamesbowman.me
   

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8. Lesson 2: Events Are Everywhere
   

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9. Lesson 3: 'Ware The DevOps Dumping Ground
   source: tirefi.re
   

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10. © Puppet 2020, All rights reserved.
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    Relay: event-driven automation
    K8s
    Serverless
    Cloud resources
    CI/CD
    Ee
    Config mgmt
    Listen to signals/events from the
    services that you already use
    Orchestrate all manner of
    downstream services
    Relay pulls together all of the tools and technologies DevOps engineers
    need to effectively manage their environment.
    System of intelligence
    Cloud events
    Git
    Incidents
    Tickets
    Monitoring
    

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11. Trigger steps are based on cloud
    events, git events, monitoring
    alerts, tickets, and incidents – like a
    Splunk alert, a Cloudwatch alert, a
    GitHub PR being merged, etc.
    Action steps are reusable,
    modular, and composable--things
    like destroying old EC2 instances,
    provisioning environments with
    Terraform, or clearing unattached
    EBS volumes.
    Query steps let you break out of a
    workflow to wait for an external
    process like manual approval or a
    callback from another system.
    Step Taxonomy
    

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12. Workflows-as-Code YAML
    Parameters prompt the user for data input at
    runtime to customize the behaviour of the
    workflow. Values can be supplied interactively,
    via API, or on CLI.
    Secrets are stored securely server-side using
    Hashicorp Vault, referenced in a workflow using
    the "!Secret" tag.
    Output tags enable data from previous steps to
    be used by ones that come later.
    

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13. Integration Ecosystem
    A library of useful integrations that cover the
    most common use cases and external services
    with sample workflows and well-documented
    steps that let you remix and combine however
    you want.
    Low-friction interoperability if you have
    existing containers that you want to use in Relay
    workflows, they can drop right in alongside
    purpose-built integrations.
    Easy step authoring if you've built something
    that other people might find useful or want to
    contribute to existing steps
    

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14. DEMO
    

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15. Available now in Beta
    Sign up for the notification list! https://relay.sh/
    Join us in Slack for Q&A and early access: #relay
    Thank you!
    Eric Sorenson // eric@puppet.com // @ahpook
    

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    Available now in Beta
    Sign up for the notification list! https://relay.sh/
    Join us in Slack for Q&A and early access: #relay
    Thank you!
    Eric Sorenson // eric@puppet.com // @ahpook
    

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