A Guide to Modern Software Development 2018

Move fast, don’t break things.

Held at the New Relic {Future}Stack 2018 Zurich event.

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1. VSHN - The DevOps Company A Guide to Modern Software Development Move fast, don’t break things. © 2018 VSHN AG
2. VSHN - The DevOps Company 2 2 Simply Call Us. V-SH-N. ˈvɪʒn, “vision”
3. VSHN - The DevOps Company • Pain points & maturity • Happy devs & customers • Building blocks • Implementation 3 3 Modern Software Development Move fast, don’t break things. Boring
4. VSHN - The DevOps Company • Cloud tooling is hard (so many options) • Dev & Ops – where to draw the line? • Automation engineering • Monitoring unclear (availability, deployments, performance?) • Cost increase (is the cloud expensive?) • The market moves fast! 4 4 Situation Today
5. VSHN - The DevOps Company • Cloud tooling • Dev & Ops • Automation • Monitoring • Cost increase • The market 5 5 Where Do We Need To Go? ⇢ Comfortable with both tools & service platforms ⇢ Runs on my machine (and in the cloud) ⇢ Continuous improvement, project maintenance ⇢ Full transparency & focus on QA (write tests, performance, security) ⇢ Short-lived branches, short time-to-market (features) ⇢ Easily switch between service platforms
6. VSHN - The DevOps Company 1. Automated tests 2. CI/CD, automation 3. DevOps culture 4. Cloud native 5. Avoid vendor lock-in 6 6 Building Blocks
7. VSHN - The DevOps Company 7 7 1. Automated Tests
8. VSHN - The DevOps Company 8 8 2. CI/CD, Automation
9. VSHN - The DevOps Company 9 9 3. DevOps Culture No more silos!
10. VSHN - The DevOps Company 10 10 4. Cloud Native “Applications that scale & are resilient.”
11. VSHN - The DevOps Company 11 11 5. Vendor Lock-In Conventions matter! I shall apply best practices Separation of concerns
12. VSHN - The DevOps Company • Repository structure • Application setup & target environments • Pipeline 12 12 How do I implement it? Maximize your freedom.
13. VSHN - The DevOps Company ❏ app/ ❏ main.py ❏ tests/ ❏ test_main.py ❏ deployment/ ❏ app ❏ Dockerfile ❏ uwsgi.ini ❏ webserver ❏ Dockerfile ❏ nginx.conf ❏ template-app.yml ❏ docs/ ❏ .gitlab-ci.yml ❏ README.md ❏ tox.ini 13 13 Repository Structure Separate concerns! CI/CD pipeline only (no project business logic) Conventions of technology in use
14. VSHN - The DevOps Company Avoid • Lengthy setup instructions (README) • Manual configuration steps • Special scripts for setting up project • config-local-dist.php & similar • Disable linting, no tests • A myriad of configuration files (and tools) • Long-lived branches & git-flow • Start monitoring late • Start deploying late Application & Target Environments Favor • Standard procedures for getting started (short paragraph in README) • Everything under version control (what is needed to get started) • Treat your dev machine as a (standard) target environment • Use getenv(‘VALUE’, ‘default’) etc. • Short-lived feature branches • Deploy & monitor from “commit 1” 14 14
15. VSHN - The DevOps Company Pipeline # template-webserver.yaml apiVersion: v1 kind: ConfigMap metadata: name: foo-bar-nginx namespace: foo-dev data: Foo: | worker_processes auto; error_log stderr; pid /var/opt/.../run/nginx/nginx.pid; events { worker_connections 1024; } ... ``` # .gitlab-ci.yml variables: OPENSHIFT_PROJECT: foo-dev APP_NAME: bar-baz deploy: - oc -n ${OPENSHIFT_PROJECT} create configmap ${APP_NAME}-nginx --from-file=Foo=config/Foo/nginx.conf --from-file=Bar=config/Bar/nginx.conf --dry-run -o yaml | oc -n ${OPENSHIFT_PROJECT} apply -f - ; 15 15 Avoid! Favor!
16. Application-side • Apply “shift-left” • Container-driven • Same tools for development and deployment 16 16 How we ensure independence Deployment-side • No application-specific details • Standard approaches (CD) • Keep platform-specific differences to a minimum
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