Linux Conf Australia 2016 - The Twelve-Factor Container

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The Twelve-Factor Container • Twitter @caseywest • Email casey@geeknest.com • Web http://caseywest.com • Days since I last used that joke zero 1 @caseywest

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Thanks a lot, Pivotal 2 @caseywest

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This isn't really a talk about containers 3 @caseywest

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This is a talk about operational maturity 4 @caseywest

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You must be this tall to ride this ride 5 @caseywest

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Audience Participation • Containers? • Schedulers? • Cloud? 6 @caseywest

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Docker Docker Docker Docker Docker Docker Docker Docker 7 @caseywest

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The factors 8 @caseywest

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1: One codebase tracked in revision control, many deploys 9 @caseywest

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Anti-pattern Building separate images for staging and production 10 @caseywest

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Anti-pattern Tags for dev and prod 11 @caseywest

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Best Practice Use the environment and/or feature flags 12 @caseywest

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2: Explicitly declare and isolate dependencies 13 @caseywest

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2: Explicitly declare and isolate dependencies 14 @caseywest

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Anti-pattern latest 15 @caseywest

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Best Practice Declare version numbers of upstream dependencies 16 @caseywest

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Best Practice Depend on base images for default filesystem and runtimes 17 @caseywest

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3: Store config in the environment 18 @caseywest

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Anti-pattern conﬁg.yml 19 @caseywest

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Anti-pattern properties.xml 20 @caseywest

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Anti-pattern Hard-coded feature flags 21 @caseywest

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Best Practice This one is literally about environment variables 22 @caseywest

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Best Practice This one is literally about environment variables ! ‑ 23 @caseywest

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4: Treat backing services as attached resources 24 @caseywest

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Anti-pattern No local disk 25 @caseywest

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Anti-pattern No local disk 26 @caseywest

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Anti-pattern No local disk 27 @caseywest

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Best Practice Connect to network- attached services using connection info from the environment 28 @caseywest

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5: Strictly separate build and run stages 29 @caseywest

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Anti-pattern Install on deploy 30 @caseywest

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Best Practice Build immutable images then run those images 31 @caseywest

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Painfully Obvious Best Practices Eat when hungry Sleep when tired Book Casey West for speaking gigs 32 @caseywest

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Best Practice Respect the lifecycle: buid, run, destroy 33 @caseywest

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6: Execute the app as one or more stateless processes 34 @caseywest

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Best Practice Schedule LRPs by distributing them across a cluster of physical hardware 35 @caseywest

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Anti-pattern NFS 36 @caseywest

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Anti-pattern NFS Need I say more? 37 @caseywest

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7: Export services via port binding 38 @caseywest

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Best Practice port = Env.fetch(:port) 39 @caseywest

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Best Practice my $port = $ENV{PORT}; 40 @caseywest

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Best Practice private String getPort() { Map env = System.getenv(); return env.get("PORT"); } 41 @caseywest

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Best Practice let port = env::var("PORT").unwrap() 42 @caseywest

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8: Scale out via the process model 43 @caseywest

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Best Practice Horizontally scale by adding instances 44 @caseywest

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9: Maximize robustness with fast startup and graceful shutdown 45 @caseywest

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10: Keep development, staging, and production as similar as possible 46 @caseywest

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Best Practice Run containers in development 47 @caseywest

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11: Treat logs as event streams 48 @caseywest

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Anti-pattern Random log files #yolo'd all over the file system 49 @caseywest

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Anti-pattern Random log files #yolo'd all over the file system, bro 50 @caseywest

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Best Practice STDOUT STDOUT STDOUT STDOUT 51 @caseywest

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12: Run admin/ management tasks as one-off processes 52 @caseywest

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Anti-pattern Custom containers for tasks 53 @caseywest

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Best Practice Reuse application images with specific entrypoints for tasks 54 @caseywest