Automating Developer Workflows

This is a talk I presented about "Dendrite", a tool I wrote for automating developer tasks at Opscode. It started out primarily as a way to manage work across a number of Git repositories in the course of Opscode's rewriting of the Chef Server from Ruby to Erlang, but has grown to include additional features including CI build artifact retrieval, Github interactions, developer workstation setup, and more.

The bulk of the presentation was a live demo of many of Dendrite's features, followed up by a series of "lessons" I've learned about writing internal tooling, and how best to exploit it.

Presented at the Triangle DevOps Meetup on April 17, 2013.

Transcript

1. AUTOMATING DEVELOPER WORKFLOWS The Evolution of “Dendrite” at Opscode Christopher Maier Software Development Engineer Opscode
2. WHO IS THIS GUY?
3. DEVELOPER AUTOMATION http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Geely_assembly_line_in_Beilun,_Ningbo.JPG
4. MORE THAN JUST YOUR OWN SHELL SCRIPTS
5. DENDRITE
6. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Complete_neuron_cell_diagram_en.svg
8. erchef chef_authn chef_db chef_index chef_objects chef_wm oc_erchef oc_chef_authz oc_chef_wm depsolver chef_certgen sqerl mini_s3 bookshelf chef-pedant oc-chef-pedant stats_hero omnibus-* opscode-account mixlib-authorization
11. DEMO TIME
12. A FEW LESSONS I’VE LEARNED
13. USE A COMMON LANGUAGE http://www.flickr.com/photos/peternijenhuis/199686509/
14. BE SMART!
15. INTEGRATE WITH TOOLS YOU USE http://www.flickr.com/photos/tlossen/3192095227/
16. MAKE IT EXTENSIBLE
17. REMOVE OBSTACLES http://www.flickr.com/photos/41005487@N00/5660449510
18. INTRODUCE NEW PRACTICES http://www.flickr.com/photos/33071217@N08/6290890862
19. DON’T WORRY ABOUT OPEN SOURCING (REALLY, IT’S OK)
20. IT IS WORTH IT
21. THANKS! cm@opscode.com christophermaier on Github @_cwm_ on Twitter http://christophermaier.name http://www.flickr.com/photos/robnas/3400482826/