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Brent Beer
April 23, 2014
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Transcript
Fast Deployment and Monitoring Why continuous integration and ChatOps are
crucial to every application Brent Beer GitHub Trainer @brntbeer
Fast Deployment and Monitoring Why continuous integration and ChatOps are
crucial to every application
Agenda Who am I? Testing Hooks / Services ChapOps
Who am I?
Trainer
Developer
From the midwest
From the midwest of the US
None
None
In San Francisco now
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Who even writes tests?
Who even writes tests first ?
I never did while in school
I still don't
I still don't
I'm geing beer!
Tests
"They take too long to write!"
"They take too long to write!" "I don't know how
to write them"
"They take too long to write!" "I don't know how
to write them" "My code is perfect"
"They take too long to write!" "I don't know how
to write them" "My code is perfect" Lies! Lies! Lies!
Make it easy to write tests
script/cibuild
None
None
Sometimes running tests takes too long
Sometimes running tests takes too long
Not just for your Enterprise Applications
"Well older things still pass tests"
Share burden and responsibility
Never work alone
Never work alone
Pull Requests
Send yourself Pull Requests
Get others to do the work for you!
@mentions
@mentions
What if others could see if your tests were passing
without running the code?
Hooks and Services
Make tests run easily for services
script/cibuild
Many third party services can be hooked into GitHub
Status API
Now someone visiting the Pull Request can know what's going
on
Status Types
History of timeline statuses
Details
None
So many CI services
None
None
None
Self Configuration
None
Manual Configuration
None
None
Services can do more than just send data to the
API
ChatOps
Context of the current state of things
Why Chat?
Hubot
Hubot
hubot.github.com
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None
None
None
None
None
None
None
Hubot's Domain
Who does the things? Service? Hook? Robot?
Hubot: deploy all the things
Make it fast
Hubot: Make it fast
Deploys
None
"Hello @user, your deploy was successful, keep an eye on
Haystack"
"Hello @user, your deploy was successful, keep an eye on
Haystack"
None
Digging Deeper
Going beyond an exception
Graphite
Graphite
statsd and collectd
Now we have things reporting
Now we have things reporting
Who should fetch these graphs?
Maybe just a dashboard view?
Dashing
None
Dashboards
None
Group understanding
Group understanding
Useful commands
Hubot: help pager
Hubot: graph me -12h @network.border.cp1.bgp
Hubot: graph me -4h @browser.frontend
Hubot: deploy training- app/chronological to production
Teach by doing
This was always my main motivation with Hubot - teaching
by doing by making this visible. It's an extremely powerful teaching technique. - @rtomayko
Signal vs Noise
Next Steps
Take a deep breath
Easy to run tests
More tests get wrien
Or collaborate
What's the state of the Pull Request?
What has been happening on the Pull Request
Your chatroom could be your office
Use robots
Use robots more
How do things look?
Don't bother me
Keep Deploying. Keep Building. Do it Faster & Safer.
Thank you! Brent Beer GitHub Trainer @brntbeer
References: hps://hubot.github.com hps://github.com/shopify/dashing hps://github.com/graphite-project hps://github.com/etsy/statsd/ hps://developer.github.com/v3/ hps://github.com/collectd hps://developer.github.com/v3/ hps://circleci.com/ hps://travis-ci.org/
hps://github.com/github/janky