You Will Not Go To Space Today

Presented at desertedislanddevops.com/
Recording of this talk is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZObcl-GcirI

When your application is mission critical, DevOps can feel a lot like fixing a spaceship to go to space. It can be hard to get all the right pieces in the right places at the right time, & sometimes all you can do is take a step back and have a little fun with what you’ve learned. That’s how a software engineer & a devops practitioner who have neither been to space nor built a video game before found themselves swapping roles as well as building a game about making it to space to bring people together during a time of unprecedented isolation.

We’ll share our progress & mistakes made as well as some of the highs & lows of our game development foray (featuring challenging moments such as “why is it green in my terminal and pink in yours??” & “what are tilesets and why are they so hard?!”).

Transcript

1. We Will Not Go To Space (Today)
2. HackWeek
3. Jacquie Grindrod • Developer Advocate @ HashiCorp • DevOps Practitioner, Digital Health • First Time Game Dev Not A Space Expert @devopsjacquie
4. Mission 1.
5. SpaceHack
6. Remote Multiplayer Project Goals
7. Uplifting Experience Project Goals
8. Build & Deployment Consistency Scalable Infrastructure Infrastructure as Code :) Some DevOps Concepts
9. Terminal Disaster 2.
10. Expectation It’ll be great!!! Let’s build a cool Terminal game! We have so many ideas!!
11. Reality Multiplayer? Term Color is Hard Scene connectivity Oops
12. Growing Pains 3.
13. Steep Learning Curve
14. Room Generation Aesthetics vs Function
15. Guided Decisions Aesthetics vs Function Enemies To Enemy or Not?
16. Jenkins-X Pipeline Runs 03. Export Artifacts (Linux, OSX, PC, Web) 04. Push to Github 02. Deploy to Nomad/ Consul Cluster on AWS 05. Local Development 01. Expectations: Pipeline
17. Expectations: Architecture
18. Reality GitHub -> GitLab -> Export -> Pages
19. Bugs, Bugs Everywhere 4.
20. Build & Export Pipeline Items Timer Personalizing our Game
21. Items
22. Guided Decisions Aesthetics vs Function Enemies Item Bug #1
23. The Lightbulb
24. Timer
25. Guided Decisions Aesthetics vs Function Enemies Unfortunately Unresolved
26. Export Issues Unfortunately Uncaptured
27. To Infinity & Beyond 5.
28. Good Bad Ugly
29. Running it in the cloud with Nomad/Consul Networking Multiplayer Lobby & Character Selection What’s next?
30. Be gentle with yourself Lessons Learned in Space
31. DevOps Tools/Process & DevOps Cult Lessons Learned in Space
32. Empathetic documentation is key Lessons Learned in Space
33. Jacquie Grindrod • Developer Advocate @ HashiCorp • DevOps Practitioner, Digital Health • First Time Game Dev Not A Space Expert @devopsjacquie github.com/gogococo
34. Jacquie Grindrod • Developer Advocate @ HashiCorp • DevOps Practitioner, Digital Health • First Time Game Dev Not A Space Expert Sophia Gad-Naser @astropartigirl Actual Space Expert @devopsjacquie github.com/gogococo
36. Demo