PyConZA 2014: "Deploying to the Google Cloud with a grain of salt" by Johann du Toit

The tutorial will focus on demonstrating how to use Google Compute to manage instances, and required infrastructure such as balancers and networks, all while guiding through deployment using Ansible. Geared towards those interested in learning on how to use Google Compute but also how to setup a automated deployment system using Ansible.

The workshop has one goal; have everyone participating running a simple app on Google Compute with automated deployment.

Transcript

1. YOU’VE GOT SALT ON MY GOOGLE CLOUD ! by Johann du Toit
3. this tutorial the Google Cloud intro to salt a challenge for swag quick nginx setup
5. GDE-IN
7. Networks TCP, UDP and ICMP only networks are private to a project public ip’s can be static/ephemeral private ip’s are ephemeral wt DNS firewall supports rules/VPN/Port Forwarding
8. Ansible specifics SSH as root is disabled, SUDO Google handles NTP see “building a custom image”
9. dashboard
10. REST
11. gcloud
12. curl https://sdk.cloud.google.com | bash
13. gcloud components list
15. gcloud auth login
16. gcloud compute regions list
17. gcloud compute images list
18. equivalent ! REST or command line
21. some extra features
25. Replica Pools quickly create pools of servers
26. AutoScaler scale up or down when criteria you specify is met
27. Deployment Manager deploy your entire infrastructure
28. Interface Demo
29. Q&A
31. sudo easy_install ansible
32. PUSH VS PULL
33. localhost
34. state
35. facts
36. [x] ok
37. [x] changed
38. [x] failed
39. [x] unreachable
40. scriptable
41. -- check
42. playbook
43. vars
44. templates
45. tasks
46. System Cloud Repo Packages lots more
47. handlers
50. inventory
53. “ansible”
54. ansible -i inventory-file all -ping
55. ‘ansible-playbook’
56. ansible-playbook! -i inventory-file (-l group-name)! playbook.yml
58. walkthrough Ansible NGINX deploy
59. now you !
60. Thanks for Listening johanndutoit.net