The Salt Route

An introduction to the devops culture by sharing our experience at PeopleDoc Inc. a successfully French start-up.

The salt route talk presents some best practices and common mistakes that arise in everyday teamwork between developers and sysadmins using SaltStack for configuration management, server provisioning, orchestration and Django web applications deployment.

Transcript

1. The Salt Route EuroPython 2015
2. @pabluk http://seminar.io
4. TEAMS & STACK • 2 Python/Django teams • 1 Java/Scala team • 1 EmberJS/Django (API) team • 1 Devops team
5. TOOLS • Saltstack configuration management • Openstack cloud instances • NewRelic alerting and monitoring
6. SALTSTACK WHY? Open Source Python
7. MAIN CONCEPTS 1. 2. 3. 4.
8. MAIN CONCEPTS 1. Master & Minions 2. 3. 4.
9. MAIN CONCEPTS 1. Master & Minions 2. States 3. 4.
10. MAIN CONCEPTS
11. MAIN CONCEPTS 1. Master & Minions 2. States 3. Pillar 4.
12. MAIN CONCEPTS
13. MAIN CONCEPTS 1. Master & Minions 2. States 3. Pillar 4. Grains
14. WORKFLOW
15. WORKFLOW ☺ TEAM 1 TEAM 2 TEAM 3 DEVOPS TEAM
16. IT WORKS, BUT NOT FOR LONG...
17. BOTTLENECK
18. BOTTLENECK COMPLEXITY
19. BOTTLENECK COMPLEXITY MONOLITHIC
20. “ YOU BUILD IT, YOU RUN IT ” Werner Vogel, CTO at Amazon.com
21. Split states by team USE THE FORMULA, LUKE
22. “Untested code is broken code” think about infrastructure as code
23. Jenkins + LXC = ❤ TESTING
24. Thank you! @pabluk