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Jonah Horowitz
October 07, 2016
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Configuration Management is an Anti-Pattern
Slides from my talk at DevOpsDays Boise
Jonah Horowitz
October 07, 2016
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@jonahhorowitz The Configuration Management Antipattern
@jonahhorowitz jonah@laptop$ cvs update website jonah@laptop$ tar zcvf website.tar.gz website
jonah@laptop$ scp website.tar.gz root@server1:/var/something/ jonah@laptop$ ssh root@server1 server1# cd /var/something server1# mv website website-`date` server1# tar zxf website.tar.gz server1# /etc/init.d/website restart server1# ^D … Rinse, Repeat …
@jonahhorowitz #!/bin/bash BOX=$1 NEWCODE=$2 scp $NEWCODE root@$BOX:/var/something/ ssh root@$BOX “(cd
/var/something ; tar zxf $NEWCODE ; /etc/init.d/tomcat restart)”
@jonahhorowitz #!/bin/bash BOX=$1 NEWCODE=$2 scp $NEWCODE root@$BOX:/var/something/ ssh root@$BOX “(cd
/var/something ; tar zxf $NEWCODE ; /etc/init.d/tomcat restart)” jonah@laptop$ cvs update website jonah@laptop$ tar zcvf website.tar.gz website jonah@laptop $ for box in `cat serverlist\boxen.txt` ; do \ tools/update-code.sh $box website.tar.gz done
@jonahhorowitz
@jonahhorowitz CFEngine (2) was great… for its time Before CFEngine
Time to provision a new server: 1 Day Chance a mistake was made: 50/50 Percentage of fleet we understood: 70 After CFEngine 2 Time to provision a new server: 1 hour Chance a mistake was made: 1% Percentage of fleet we understood: 99
@jonahhorowitz Puppet
@jonahhorowitz So, who am I? Jonah Horowitz Senior Site Reliability
Engineer Netflix CORE SRE (Cloud Operations Reliability Engineering)
[email protected]
@jonahhorowitz C loud O perations R eliability E ngineering
@jonahhorowitz What sucks about Config Management?
@jonahhorowitz Release Engineering Still Sucks
@jonahhorowitz What’s the alternative?
@jonahhorowitz Chaos
@jonahhorowitz Cloud or Not
@jonahhorowitz Jonah Horowitz Senior Site Reliability Engineer @jonahhorowitz https://netflix.github.io/ https://jobs.netflix.com/
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