A Build Monkey's Apology

Where I confessed my sins and sought atonement from an audience.

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1. A Build Monkey's
   Apology
   Scott Robinson
   ThoughtWorks
   

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2. Excuses
   Scott Robinson
   Apologist
   

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3. Apologetics (from Greek ἀπολογία,
   "speaking in defense") is the discipline of
   defending a position (often religious)
   through the systematic use of information.
   

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4. Automate Everything
   Scott Robinson
   Occasional DevOp
   

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5. I broke the build.
   Sorry.
   

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6. Smoke Build Test Deploy
   

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7. Smoke Build Test Deploy Test
   

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8. Smoke Build Test Deploy Test
   Build
   Build
   Test
   Test
   

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9. Smoke Build Test Deploy Test
   Build
   Build
   Deploy
   Deploy
   Test
   Deploy
   Test
   

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10. Smoke
    Important
    Mess
    Less Important
    Mess
    

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11. Feedback Cycle
    

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12. Feedback Cycle
    • Order stages by team value
    • Do not stop for regression
    • Do not mark tests as broken
    

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13. What stops us from
    continuing with
    confidence?
    

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14. I broke builds while
    fixing a broken build.
    Sorry.
    

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16. Will it debug?
    

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18. Configuration
    • Version control build configuration
    • Build scripts in the source tree
    • Use new pipelines and agents
    

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19. Resource by Capability
    • build
    • project-a
    • scott’s box
    NO
    • Windows
    • JRuby
    • Selenium
    YES
    

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20. Who is on the pager
    tree for the build?
    

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21. Audience Participation?
    

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22. I broke dependencies
    for my team.
    Sorry.
    

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23. I fixed it. Live.
    

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24. Version Control
    

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25. Configuration
    Management
    

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26. Configuration Management
    

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27. I didn’t test Chef.
    Sorry.
    

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28. Configuration Management
    Vagrant
    

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29. I tested Chef... in
    production.
    Sorry.
    

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30. What does
    “production” mean?
    

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31. Summary of Mistakes
    • Broke the build.
    • Broke builds while fixing a broken build.
    • Broke dependencies for my team.
    

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32. Sorry.
    

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