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
2. Excuses Scott Robinson Apologist
3. Apologetics (from Greek ἀπολογία, "speaking in defense") is the discipline of defending a position (often religious) through the systematic use of information.
4. Automate Everything Scott Robinson Occasional DevOp
5. I broke the build. Sorry.
6. Smoke Build Test Deploy
7. Smoke Build Test Deploy Test
8. Smoke Build Test Deploy Test Build Build Test Test
9. Smoke Build Test Deploy Test Build Build Deploy Deploy Test Deploy Test
10. Smoke Important Mess Less Important Mess
11. Feedback Cycle
12. Feedback Cycle • Order stages by team value • Do not stop for regression • Do not mark tests as broken
13. What stops us from continuing with confidence?
14. I broke builds while fixing a broken build. Sorry.
16. Will it debug?
18. Configuration • Version control build configuration • Build scripts in the source tree • Use new pipelines and agents
19. Resource by Capability • build • project-a • scott’s box NO • Windows • JRuby • Selenium YES
20. Who is on the pager tree for the build?
21. Audience Participation?
22. I broke dependencies for my team. Sorry.
23. I fixed it. Live.
24. Version Control
25. Configuration Management
26. Configuration Management
27. I didn’t test Chef. Sorry.
28. Configuration Management Vagrant
29. I tested Chef... in production. Sorry.
30. What does “production” mean?
31. Summary of Mistakes • Broke the build. • Broke builds while fixing a broken build. • Broke dependencies for my team.
32. Sorry.