Running Plone on AWS: 2020 Edition

In this talk I will walk through all of the intricacies of getting Plone to run on the cloud using cloud Native technologies. I walk though the whole process of setting up your storages, your ingresses, your load balancers, running Plone on Container etc.

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1. RUNNING PLONE ON AWS
   2020 EDITION
   CALVIN HENDRYX-PARKER, CTO
   SIX FEET UP
   https://github.com/calvinhp/2020_PloneConf_RunningPloneonAWS
   

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2. SIX FEET UP IS HIRING!!
   

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3. BEAUTIFUL UNIQUE SNOWFLAKES ARE
   NOT REPRODUCIBLE.
   

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4. PETS
   

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5. CATTLE
   

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6. FROM THE CLOSET TO THE CLOUD
   

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7. SINGLE SERVER MONOLITH
   

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8. CLOUD OPTIMIZED
   

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9. NETWORK COMPLEXITY
   

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10. BIT OF A CHICKEN AND EGG PROBLEM
    

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11. ORCHESTRATE!
    And build a test environment
    $ salt-run state.orchestrate orch.deploy-environment pillarenv=prod
    $ salt-run state.orchestrate orch.deploy-environment pillarenv=test
    

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12. SOUNDS TOO EASY
    The road was bumpy for sure.
    Satisfying the rules for no special cases was tricky.
    

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13. MINDFULNESS
    There should be one, and preferably only one,
    obvious way to do it. Although that way may
    not be obvious at rst unless you’re Dutch. –
    The Zen of Python
    

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14. THE JOURNEY OF 3 OPERATING
    SYSTEMS
    »
    2a67758 Editing requirements to run properly on
    amazon linux
    »
    472d844 Refactoring to run CentOS 7 machines
    »
    dd67b7a Refactoring for FreeBSD
    What happened here?
    

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15. THE ROAD FORWARD
    

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16. DEMO
    

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17. DEVELOPER EXPERIENCE
    

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19. WHAT’S MISSING?
    » Passing Environment Variables
    » Local Dev of Theme and Apps
    » Build and Deploy of Custom Bits
    

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20. THANKS!
    CALVIN@SIXFEETUP.COM
    @calvinhp
    https://github.com/calvinhp/2020_PloneConf_RunningPloneonAWS
    

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21. // reveal.js plugins
    

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