Infracoders Unite

A short presentation I did at our first local Infracoders meetup, talking about what it is, what it isn't and why we love it. I'm ashamed to say I forgot to insert any mention of automated testing in here. Next time.

Transcript

1. Infracoders Unite all the things Monday, March 25, 13
2. Who Am I? • Sascha Bates - Bratty Redhead Consulting • sascha@brattyredhead.com • Automation Junky • 10+ years herding infrastructure cats • Consulting since 2006 (since 2011 on my own) Monday, March 25, 13
3. What is it? When I say INFRACODING what do I mean? Monday, March 25, 13
4. NOPE Is it this? Monday, March 25, 13
5. Nu Uh how ‘bout? Monday, March 25, 13
6. not this either ? Monday, March 25, 13
7. not even close But I love... Monday, March 25, 13
8. Infracoding Not just Configuration Management Monday, March 25, 13
9. Configuration Management can’t exist in a vacuum Monday, March 25, 13
10. WTF? Monday, March 25, 13
11. Infracoding is the Ecosystem We are curators Monday, March 25, 13
12. Orchestration Control-M Maestro Rundeck Urban Deploy Go JAM Monday, March 25, 13
13. Config Management CFEngine Puppet Chef Ansible . . . Monday, March 25, 13
14. Provisioning Cobbler Razor PXE and Kickstart EC2-server-create Monday, March 25, 13
15. Application Build Engineering make,rake,ant,maven,gradle Jenkins/Hudson Cruise Control Travis-CI Bamboo Monday, March 25, 13
16. INFRACODING It’s all of these things Monday, March 25, 13
17. What Wraps Them Together? Monday, March 25, 13
18. Version Control Subversion Git Mercurial CVS PVCS MS Visual SourceSafe Monday, March 25, 13
19. Version Control is Key • Everything should go into source control • Subversion - piece of cake to set up • Github.com - great for public repositories Monday, March 25, 13
20. INFRACODING WHY DO WE LOVE IT? Monday, March 25, 13
21. Repeatable We write code so we can reliably reproduce objects like scripts, servers or entire infrastructures; no matter if it’s tomorrow, next week, next year Monday, March 25, 13
22. Recoverable Code commits | Change progression you know what you did why you did it and so does the person who replaces you next year when you take off to bootstrap your dream startup Monday, March 25, 13
23. Disposable Infrastructure as code means everything we create is disposable; a commodity. We can always make another one. All of our snowflakes look alike. Monday, March 25, 13
24. QUESTIONS? ???? ???? Monday, March 25, 13