Globaldev Tech Talk: Build your own Heroku

The globaldev team is gradually becoming more polyglot, and is constantly
churning out more supporting applications to help run our platform. Deploying
all these apps the "old fashioned way" provides a big headache for our
Operations team. Luckily, the industry is moving more and more towards
containerised PaaS-style deployment such as that used by Heroku.

In this talk I discuss how companies that aren't on the absolute bleeding edge
of the Linux kernel can still leverage these patterns on their private
infrastructure, even when fantastic projects like Docker won't run on their
hardware. I also provide a preview of the technology that will be backing
Griddle when it is released. Let me know your thoughts in the comments below.

Transcript

1. Build Your Own Heroku Even if you run a 7-year-old Operating System* *title bait Friday, 4 April 14
2. What makes a Heroku app a Heroku app? Friday, 4 April 14
3. Heroku App = 12 Factor App Friday, 4 April 14
4. 1. Codebase 2. Dependencies 3. Config 4. Backing Services 5. Build, release, run 6. Processes 7. Port binding 8. Concurrency 9. Disposability 10.Dev/prod parity 11. Logs 12. Admin processes http://12factor.net/ Friday, 4 April 14
5. How does Heroku work? Friday, 4 April 14
6. Standard Base Platform Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Friday, 4 April 14
7. Buildpacks Friday, 4 April 14
8. Procfile Friday, 4 April 14
9. Process Separation Friday, 4 April 14
10. Why our own Heroku? Friday, 4 April 14
11. Polyglot team CF, Java, Ruby, Node.js, Elixir, Go, Python Friday, 4 April 14
12. 35 apps in production +6 in last 4 months 2 in development Friday, 4 April 14
13. Operations headache Friday, 4 April 14
14. DevOps More than just awesome GIFs http://devopsreactions.tumblr.com/post/56227454839/plan-deploy-aaaand-win Friday, 4 April 14
15. Contractual Config MYSQL_CORE_READ_HOST MYSQL_INBOX_WRITE_USER REDIS_HOST Friday, 4 April 14
16. Standardised startup Friday, 4 April 14
17. Standardised logging Friday, 4 April 14
18. Zero install* Friday, 4 April 14
19. DEMO Friday, 4 April 14
20. Questions? Friday, 4 April 14