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PyCon 2014
April 11, 2014
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Application Deployment: State of the Onion by Noah Kantrowitz
PyCon 2014
April 11, 2014
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Transcript
State of the Onion Application Deployment Noah Kantrowitz
Me •PSF + PyCon •Balanced •Chef •Making things
Platform Web Server Database App Code Configuration Orchestration
None
Application Code
None
•Simple •Everywhere •Repetitive Tar
•Efficient •Everywhere •Many options Rsync
•Common SCM •Push or pull •Single truth Git
•Pull based •Simple server •Solid tools Packages
•Build packages •No moving parts •See also: depot Omnibus
Configuration Management
None
•Versioned •Readable •Inflexible Flat Files
•Ruby-based •Declarative-ish •Big ecosystem Chef
•Custom DSL •Declarative •Big ecosystem Puppet
•YAML + Jinja •Second wave •Growing SaltStack
•YAML + Jinja •Very new •Agent-less Ansible
None
Orchestration
None
•for x in ... •ssh $x ... •knife ssh SSH
Loop
•Python •Task based •Parallel Fabric
•Ad-hoc shell •Dynamic nodes •Accelerated Ansible
•ZeroMQ •Minions only •Modules SaltStack
•AMQP bus •Limited ad-hoc •Live discovery MCollective
•API-driven •Centralized •Workflows Rundeck
•Hubot •Visibility •Emerging trend Chatops
Database
None
•Relational •ACID •Add-ons galore Postgres
•Relational •Mostly ACID •Many forks MySQL
None
•Key/value store •In-memory •Limited HA Redis
•Distributed •Big Table •CQL Cassandra
•Distributed •2i, Search, MR •CRDTs Riak
•MongoDB •Couch* •Interns Others
•Consistent •Slow •Paxos ZooKeeper
Web Server
None
•Battle tested •Flexible MPMs •mod_wsgi Apache
•Concurrent •Simple config •Proxy Nginx
•Pure Python •Simple •Fast Gunicorn
•C extension •Extra features •Config soup Uwsgi
•Really fast •Mix w/ async •Complex Twisted
•Fastly •CloudFront •Varnish CDNs
Server Provisioning
None
•knife ec2 •novaclient •Web UI Manual
•Vendor lock-in •Limited triggers •Easy AWS ASGs
•Whole infra •Fragile state •Very powerful CloudFormation
•OpenStack •Yaml format •Limited compat Heat
•Expensive •Cross-cloud •Chef RightScale
•Netflix stack •AWS ASGs •Deployment Asgard
Secrets Management
None
•Existing tools •Versioned •Insecure Config
•Encrypted bags •Ansible Vault •Unwise Encryption
•Vendor lock in •Moving pieces •Relatively safe S3+IAM
•OpenStack(ish) •Very new •Promising Barbican
•N-of-M •Cold storage •GPG-based Red October
Other services
•Statsd •Collectd •Graphite Metrics
•Logstash •Kibana •Sentry Logs
Platform as a Service
•Easy •No really, easy •Inflexible & $$$ Heroku
•Mild lock-in •Scalable •Few users GAE
•Open-source •No lock-in •Difficult deploy OpenShift
•Docker-based •Very young •Promising Deis/Flynn
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