Pets versus Cattle: servers evolved

An excite talk I gave talking about Pets versus Cattle and the pros and cons of this approach going forward. TL;DR having more cattle than pets will make datacenter more efficient, shift the burden of uptime towards more of a DevOps role and provide a smoother development and deployment model. Let's do this!

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1. Pets versus Cattle: servers evolved! St Louis, MO 02/24/2015 Phil Cryer / @fak3r! Automation Engineer / hacker!
2. Servers the "enterprise computing" model!
3. Administration the "enterprise computing" model!
4. "When one of them gets sick, you shoot 'em in the head and! replace 'em with a new one” Randy Bias, CEO of Cloudscaling, 2012! Pets! Cattle!!
5. Major disruption! (aka #fail)! Decision?! Server offline!! Fix ASAP or you’re fired!! Pets!
6. Major disruption! (aka #fail)! Decision?! Server offline!! Fix ASAP or you’re fired!! Unnoticed by ! end-users! Kill server, and start another! Pets! Cattle!
7. One size does not fit all so we’ll still need (some) pets!
8. Administration the "cattle" model!
9. Hardware the "cattle" model!
10. “…a data center full of vanity free servers… is more efficient and less expensive to build and run.”! ! 38% more efficient ! 24% less expensive! Hardware the "cattle" model!
11. DevOps it’s the new style (4 and 3 and 2 and 1)! WWAD?!
12. Agile infrastructure frequent incremental releases!
13. Automate everything open source, apis take control!
14. Stax light fuse, get away!
15. Forward thinking brings new ideas and methods!
16. ! ! ! ! ! Existing IT the impact of the "cattle" model!
17. Barriers to adoption “this is how we’ve always done it”!
20. Evolve, develop be agile!
21. Thanks! St Louis, MO 02/24/2015 Phil Cryer / @fak3r! Automation Engineer / hacker! Mooooo…!