Modern Infrastructure Automation

Automation at scale is the foundation of every successful high velocity organization. Automation requires dynamic infrastructure that is managed as code. Modern infrastructure code means bringing the lessons from software development to your infrastructure. Automation is managed in version control systems, tests drive code development, code moves through a continuous pipeline from the workstation to the production environment. What will this look like in five years? We will see a continued improvement in the way teams work together toward common goals, build more operable applications, and embrace complexity while improving ease-of-use.

This was presented during the All Day DevOps Conference - http://alldaydevops.com/

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1. November 15, 2016
   Modern Infrastructure Automa:on
   Nathen Harvey, VP Community Development, Chef | @nathenharvey
   

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2. November 15, 2016
   Nathen Harvey
   VP, Community Development at Chef
   Co-host of the Food Fight Show Podcast
   Occasional farmer – hNp://ei.chef.io
   Love eggs – hNp://eggs.chef.io
   #hugops – hNp://hugops.chef.io
   @nathenharvey
   nharvey@chef.io
   

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3. November 15, 2016
   We’re no longer an airline. We’re a software
   company with wings.
   – Veresh Sita, CIO, Alaska
   Airlines
   Now every business is a software business
   

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4. November 15, 2016
   No high velocity
   company
   has gotten there without
   automation at scale as a
   foundation
   Automation at scale is required for high velocity IT
   Continuous
   Improvement
   Citi relies on Chef as the automation platform used to
   help transform over 3,000 application teams. Chef is
   important enough to Citi that Citi became an investor in
   Chef.
   Chef is the platform for a continuous delivery pipeline
   empowering application teams to ship a thousand plus
   changes per day across “Carl Sagan size deployments.”
   GE touts Chef as the most rapidly adopted technology in
   the history of GE.
   idea ship
   

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5. November 15, 2016
   Automation at Scale
   Dynamic
   Infrastructure
   

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6. November 15, 2016
   Dynamic infrastructure
   Migrate applica:ons to the cloud and support hybrid and mul:-cloud environments.
   Automate the management of heterogeneous networks, including legacy systems.
   •  Provisioning and seUng up
   environments
   •  Dynamic scaling of compute resources
   •  Migra:ng legacy workloads to the cloud
   •  Mul: cloud and hybrid cloud
   deployment
   •  Support for heterogeneous
   environments
   

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7. November 15, 2016
   Dynamic
   Infrastructure
   Infrastructure as Code
   +
   Automation at Scale
   

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8. November 15, 2016
   Infrastructure as Code
   Turn infrastructure into code—infrastructure as code is versionable, testable and repeatable. Manual
   processes become a thing of the past.
   •  Automated, full-stack applica:on policies
   •  Package and service installa:on
   •  Versionable, testable, repeatable workflow
   •  Scalable applica:on policies
   •  Management of interdependencies across
   nodes
   

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9. November 15, 2016
   Infrastructure as Code
   •  Programma:cally provision
   and configure components
   

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10. November 15, 2016
    Infrastructure as Code
    •  Programma:cally provision
    and configure components
    •  Treat like any other code
    base
    

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11. November 15, 2016
    Infrastructure as Code
    •  Programma:cally provision
    and configure components
    •  Treat like any other code
    base
    •  Reconstruct business from
    code repository, data backup,
    and compute resources
    

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12. November 15, 2016
    Infrastructure as code and delivery at scale
    ●  Manages deployment and on-going
    automation
    ●  Define reusable resources and
    infrastructure state as code
    ●  Scale elegantly from one to tens of
    thousands of managed nodes across
    multiple complex environments
    

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13. November 15, 2016
    Test the Code
    describe 'apache::default' do
    context 'When all attributes are default, on an unspecified platform' do
    let(:chef_run) do
    runner = ChefSpec::ServerRunner.new(platform: 'ubuntu', version: '16.04')
    runner.converge(described_recipe)
    end
    it 'installs apache' do
    expect(chef_run).to install_package 'apache2'
    end
    end
    end
    

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14. November 15, 2016
    Version the Code & the Ar:fact
    name 'all_day_devops'
    maintainer 'Nathen Harvey'
    maintainer_email 'nharvey@chef.io'
    license 'apache2'
    description 'Installs/Configures devops all day long'
    long_description 'Installs/Configures devops all day'
    version '0.1.0'
    

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15. November 15, 2016
    Infrastructure Code
    Source
    Code
    Repo
    Artifact
    Artifact
    Repo
    

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16. November 15, 2016
    Pipeline to Produc:on
    Test the
    code
    

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17. November 15, 2016
    Pipeline to Produc:on
    APPROVE
    Test the
    code
    Does this
    code change
    look good?
    

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18. November 15, 2016
    Pipeline to Produc:on
    APPROVE
    Test the
    code
    Build an
    artifact
    Does this
    code change
    look good?
    

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19. November 15, 2016
    Pipeline to Produc:on
    APPROVE
    Test the
    code
    Build an
    artifact
    Test the
    artifact
    Does this
    code change
    look good?
    

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20. November 15, 2016
    Pipeline to Produc:on
    APPROVE DELIVER
    Test the
    code
    Build an
    artifact
    Test the
    artifact
    Does this
    code change
    look good?
    Do we want
    to ship this?
    

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21. November 15, 2016
    Pipeline to Produc:on
    APPROVE DELIVER
    Test the
    code
    Build an
    artifact
    Test the
    artifact
    Ship to
    customers
    Does this
    code change
    look good?
    Do we want
    to ship this?
    

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22. November 15, 2016
    What’s Next?
    

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23. November 15, 2016
    Infrastructure
    Automation
    Infrastructure Automa:on is NOT Enough
    

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24. November 15, 2016
    

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25. November 15, 2016
    Communications Problem
    

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26. November 15, 2016
    Mapping Compliance Document to InSpec
    control 'ssh-6.2.1' do
    title 'Set SSH Protocol to 2'
    end
    

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27. November 15, 2016
    Mapping Compliance Document to InSpec
    control 'ssh-6.2.1' do
    title 'Set SSH Protocol to 2'
    desc "
    SSH supports two different ...
    "
    end
    

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28. November 15, 2016
    Mapping Compliance Document to InSpec
    control 'ssh-6.2.1' do
    title 'Set SSH Protocol to 2'
    desc "
    SSH supports two different ...
    "
    describe sshd_config do
    its('Protocol') { should cmp('2') }
    end
    end
    

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29. November 15, 2016
    Mapping Compliance Document to InSpec
    control 'ssh-6.2.1' do
    impact 1.0
    title 'Set SSH Protocol to 2'
    desc "
    SSH supports two different ...
    "
    describe sshd_config do
    its('Protocol') { should cmp('2') }
    end
    end
    

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30. November 15, 2016
    Infrastructure
    Automation
    Compliance
    Automation
    

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32. November 15, 2016
    Applica:ons
    

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33. November 15, 2016
    Modern Applica:ons
    Source
    Code
    Repo
    Artifact
    Bare Metal
    Containers
    Cloud Instance
    VM
    Artifact
    Repo
    

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34. November 15, 2016
    Operable Applica:ons
    •  Isolated
    •  Immutable
    •  Configurable
    •  Common interface for monitoring health
    •  Rebuild from source
    •  Common packaging
    •  Run:me Independence
    

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35. November 15, 2016
    Freedom to Focus
    • Create features to drive the business and
    delight customers
    • Bare metal, virtualiza:on, cloud, PaaS?
    • Defer choices about infrastructure un:l late in
    the development lifecycle
    

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36. November 15, 2016
    Infrastructure
    Automation
    Application
    Automation
    Compliance
    Automation
    

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37. November 15, 2016
    Infrastructure Automation Application Automation Compliance Automation
    

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39. DEVOPS
    A cultural and professional movement,
    focused on how we build and operate
    high velocity organizations, born from
    the experiences of its practitioners.
    

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40. People
    Products
    Companies
    

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    Non-bullet slide subtitle
    Community
    Our Foundation
    

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45. November 15, 2016
    Nathen Harvey
    VP, Community Development at Chef
    Co-host of the Food Fight Show Podcast
    Occasional farmer – hNp://ei.chef.io
    Love eggs – hNp://eggs.chef.io
    #hugops – hNp://hugops.chef.io
    @nathenharvey
    nharvey@chef.io
    

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