Cyber Summit 2014 - Test Kitchen and Infrastructure as Code

Automatic for the People: Fostering a Culture of Efficiency in the Workplace

Thursday, September 25, 2014
10:30 am — 12:00 pm
Banff Centre, Kinnear Centre Room 101

Automation tools make it possible for an organization’s IT department to better monitor and manage infrastructure through its entire lifecycle. This increases the output and lifespan of equipment, and reduces costs.

What applications do automation tools apply to? And what kind of culture shift is required to bring this software onboard? Hear first-hand accounts and tips from technology-neutral experts.

Presentation Format

Each presenter will give a 15 minute presentation, with visuals, introducing themselves and describing one or two automation tools they use, and the training and office environment shifts required to incorporate them.

A 15-minute Q&A will be held at the end.

Transcript

1. Test Kitchen and Infrastructure as Code Cyber Summit 2014 September 25, 2014 Fletcher Nichol @fnichol
2. http://hw-ops.com
3. 1. Infrastructure as Code 2. Test Kitchen Agenda
4. I am a software developer Preface
5. What is Infrastructure?
6. Physical and virtual resources: compute (servers, vms), networking, storage, etc. Infrastructure
7. What is Infrastructure Automation?
8. Code
9. Software
10. What is Infrastructure As Code?
11. “Enable the reconstruction of the business from nothing but a source code repository, an application data backup, and bare metal resources” Infrastructure as Code - Adam Jacob, Web Operations
14. If we can model infrastructure as code
15. If we can model infrastructure as code can we apply code process and practices?
16. In other words…
17. Can we apply
18. Can we apply Software Engineering to infrastrcuture?
19. Yep.
20. What processes and practices apply to software?
21. Testing
22. Test Kitchen “Your infrastructure deserves tests too”
24. An infrastructure testing tool Test Kitchen
25. Used in development Test Kitchen
26. Used in CI/CD pipeline Test Kitchen
27. Describes your testing setup on a single server Test Kitchen
28. .kitchen.yml Test Kitchen Code
29. --- driver: name: vagrant ! provisioner: name: chef_solo ! platforms: - name: ubuntu-14.04 - name: centos-6.5 ! suites: - name: client run_list: - recipe[postgresql::client] - name: server run_list: - recipe[postgresql::server] Code
30. --- driver: name: vagrant ! provisioner: name: chef_solo ! platforms: - name: ubuntu-14.04 - name: centos-6.5 ! suites: - name: client run_list: - recipe[postgresql::client] - name: server run_list: - recipe[postgresql::server] Code
31. --- driver: name: vagrant ! provisioner: name: chef_solo ! platforms: - name: ubuntu-14.04 - name: centos-6.5 ! suites: - name: client run_list: - recipe[postgresql::client] - name: server run_list: - recipe[postgresql::server] Code
32. --- driver: name: vagrant ! provisioner: name: chef_solo ! platforms: - name: ubuntu-14.04 - name: centos-6.5 ! suites: - name: client run_list: - recipe[postgresql::client] - name: server run_list: - recipe[postgresql::server] Code
33. --- driver: name: vagrant ! provisioner: name: chef_solo ! platforms: - name: ubuntu-14.04 - name: centos-6.5 ! suites: - name: client run_list: - recipe[postgresql::client] - name: server run_list: - recipe[postgresql::server] Code
34. Runs multiple testing setups in isolation Test Kitchen
35. Plugin system to support automation tools, cloud providers, & testing frameworks Test Kitchen
36. Amazon EC2, Rackspace, Digital Ocean, OpenStack, LXC, Vagrant, CloudStack, Joyent, VMware vSphere, Google Compute Engine, Microsoft Azure, Docker, etc. Test Kitchen Drivers
37. Chef (Solo, Client), Simple Shell, Puppet (Apply), Salt, Ansible, etc. Test Kitchen Provisioners
38. Simple bash, bats, MiniTest, shUnit2, Aruba, Serverspec, RSpec, shpec, Cucumber, etc. Test Kitchen Testing Frameworks
39. http://kitchen.ci/docs/getting-started/ Test Kitchen Getting Started
40. “In short, software is eating the world.” It’s All Software - Marc Andreessen, 2011
41. Infrastructure Automation is Real
42. Infrastructure Automation is Real Hard™
43. Infrastructure Automation is Real …but
44. Infrastructure Automation is Real Possible™
45. Thanks! Cyber Summit 2014 September 25, 2014 Fletcher Nichol @fnichol
46. Photo Credits https://flic.kr/p/fD2CXV https://flic.kr/p/i3NECz https://flic.kr/p/9urXjF