How to let developers do your job - #ChefConf 2013

You've impressed your team with all of your Chef cookbooks. Now you're the go-to person for a never-ending list of infrastructure changes. It's time to let other developers own some of those cookbooks.

I'll discuss the tools, processes, and attitudes you need to let developers manage infrastructure themselves. Even new hires can spin up instances and deploy with confidence. All without asking for your permission.

I'll also discuss some common pitfalls and potential solutions of distributed Chef workflows.

Presented at #ChefConf 2013: http://chefconf.opscode.com

Transcript

1. How to let developers do your job
2. Aaron Suggs @ktheory Ops Engineer
3. crowdfunds creative projects
4. Stack
5. Stack Amazon EC2
6. MySQL on RDS Stack
7. Ruby on Rails Stack
8. Github Stack
9. Hosted Chef Stack
10. Who makes
11. 4 product managers They deploy code.
12. 4 designers They deploy code.
13. 11 developers They deploy code.
14. 1 ops engineer I deploy code.
15. Does it work?
17. 40,000 successful projects
18. $491 million collected
19. > backers
20. > social
21. ops
22. > uptime
23. > failure isolation
24. < MTTR Mean Time To Recovery
25. > performance
26. > features 4.2 prod deploys / day
27. > happiness
28. 1 ops engineer I deploy code.
29. Culture Process Tools
30. Virtuous cycle of happiness
31. Encourage experiments Culture
32. Feature branches Process
33. git Tools
34. Culture Process Tools
35. Encourage experiments Culture
36. so remove friction Culture
37. Easy local development Process
38. script/bootstrap Tools
39. script/bootstrap Tools Homebrew (OS X)
40. script/bootstrap Tools rbenv
41. script/bootstrap Tools replicate
42. Tools replicate = awesome github.com/rtomayko/replicate
43. script/bootstrap Tools idempotent
44. script/bootstrap Tools 6 contributors
45. Culture Process Tools
46. Remove friction Culture
47. Feature environments Process
48. Feature environments
49. Feature environments Process
50. Hivequeen Tools
51. Tools creates production-like environments
52. Tools automatically creates chef roles + runlists
53. Tools bootstraps servers with chef role
54. Tools One button to launch environment
56. = WIN
57. 29 deployers Tools (half the company)
58. 10,136 deploys Tools 1,153 production deploys since Nov 2011
59. Culture Process Tools
60. Remove friction Culture
61. so work across disciplines Culture
62. teach, learn Culture
63. taught me this image effect Jessica
64. Christopher
65. Migrated to elasticsearch Christopher
66. Pair programmed minimal cookbook
67. Resiliency
68. Dark launch
69. Christopher did the rest
70. Christopher deployed feature env
71. Christopher fixed the bugs
72. Christopher upgraded packages
73. Christopher deployed to prod
74. > happiness
75. Culture Process Tools
76. Blameless postmortems Culture
77. Opportunity to teach & learn Culture
78. > uptime
79. > happiness
80. The bad & the ugly
81. Culture Process Tools
82. Aaron Suggs @ktheory Ops Engineer