Take Back Your Toolchain

Making the case for workstation automation at the MN Ruby users group.

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1. Take Back Your Toolchain rubygems making the case for toolchain automation Monday, July 29, 13
2. brattyredhead.com @sascha_d The Ship Show Podcast Twin Cities Infracoders sascha bates Monday, July 29, 13
3. credentials? making messes with Chef and Ruby toolchains in the Enterprise and at home since 2010 Monday, July 29, 13
4. I mess things up so you don’t have to Monday, July 29, 13
5. failure to automate a failure of vision Monday, July 29, 13
6. too much trouble internal tech teams consulting dev shops indie consultants Monday, July 29, 13
7. Ruby is Hard rubygems RVM rubygems bundler git rails 1.8.7 1.9.3 2.0.0 vendoring Monday, July 29, 13
8. me with my ruby toolchain circa 2010 Monday, July 29, 13
9. * common excuses * * intangibles * * tools * making a case for automation Monday, July 29, 13
10. common excuses why not automate? Monday, July 29, 13
11. common excuses infrequent why not automate? Monday, July 29, 13
12. common excuses infrequent only once why not automate? Monday, July 29, 13
13. common excuses infrequent only once no time why not automate? Monday, July 29, 13
14. a story about queues once upon a time... there was a sysadmin and she needed to configure some queues the myth of no time Monday, July 29, 13
15. a story about RDS A story about RDS the myth of infrequency Monday, July 29, 13
16. a story about RDS A story about RDS the myth of infrequency AWS databases for dev teams Monday, July 29, 13
17. a story about RDS A story about RDS the myth of infrequency AWS databases for dev teams inside a VPC Monday, July 29, 13
18. a story about RDS A story about RDS the myth of infrequency AWS databases for dev teams inside a VPC Required Monday, July 29, 13
19. a story about RDS A story about RDS the myth of infrequency AWS databases for dev teams inside a VPC Required Instance creation Monday, July 29, 13
20. a story about RDS A story about RDS the myth of infrequency AWS databases for dev teams inside a VPC Required Instance creation data population Monday, July 29, 13
21. a story about RDS A story about RDS the myth of infrequency AWS databases for dev teams inside a VPC Required Instance creation data population with specific ports Monday, July 29, 13
22. a story about RDS A story about RDS the myth of infrequency AWS databases for dev teams inside a VPC Required Instance creation data population with specific ports editing IP tables Monday, July 29, 13
23. a story about RDS A story about RDS the myth of infrequency AWS databases for dev teams inside a VPC Required Instance creation data population with specific ports editing IP tables updating a wiki page Monday, July 29, 13
24. increasing frequency 1+ hours updating wiki instructions every time the myth of infrequency Monday, July 29, 13
25. wat! Monday, July 29, 13
26. let’s talk about workstations the myth of only once Monday, July 29, 13
27. let’s talk about workstations the myth of only once you’re a new hire Monday, July 29, 13
28. let’s talk about workstations the myth of only once you’re a new hire you spill water on your laptop Monday, July 29, 13
29. let’s talk about workstations the myth of only once you’re a new hire you spill water on your laptop laptops get upgraded Monday, July 29, 13
30. let’s talk about workstations the myth of only once you’re a new hire you spill water on your laptop laptops get upgraded RVM takes a nosedive Monday, July 29, 13
31. let’s talk about workstations the myth of only once you’re a new hire you spill water on your laptop laptops get upgraded RVM takes a nosedive you help a new hire Monday, July 29, 13
32. let’s talk about workstations the myth of only once you’re a new hire you spill water on your laptop laptops get upgraded RVM takes a nosedive you help a new hire when you write the wiki page Monday, July 29, 13
33. let’s talk about workstations the myth of only once you’re a new hire you spill water on your laptop laptops get upgraded RVM takes a nosedive you help a new hire when you write the wiki page the new hire horks their env Monday, July 29, 13
34. let’s talk about workstations the myth of only once you’re a new hire you spill water on your laptop laptops get upgraded RVM takes a nosedive you help a new hire when you write the wiki page the new hire horks their env you start a new project Monday, July 29, 13
35. let’s talk about workstations the myth of only once you’re a new hire you spill water on your laptop laptops get upgraded RVM takes a nosedive you help a new hire when you write the wiki page the new hire horks their env you start a new project updating the outdated wiki Monday, July 29, 13
36. let’s talk about workstations the myth of only once you’re a new hire you spill water on your laptop laptops get upgraded RVM takes a nosedive you help a new hire when you write the wiki page the new hire horks their env you start a new project updating the outdated wiki you buy a new computer Monday, July 29, 13
37. let’s talk about workstations the myth of only once Monday, July 29, 13
38. let’s talk about workstations the myth of only once slowdowns Monday, July 29, 13
39. let’s talk about workstations the myth of only once slowdowns getting access for new hires Monday, July 29, 13
40. let’s talk about workstations the myth of only once slowdowns getting access for new hires remembering what needs installing Monday, July 29, 13
41. let’s talk about workstations the myth of only once slowdowns getting access for new hires remembering what needs installing outdated documentation Monday, July 29, 13
42. let’s talk about workstations the myth of only once slowdowns getting access for new hires remembering what needs installing outdated documentation NO documentation Monday, July 29, 13
43. let’s talk about workstations the myth of only once slowdowns getting access for new hires remembering what needs installing outdated documentation NO documentation conflicting documentation Monday, July 29, 13
44. let’s talk about workstations the myth of only once slowdowns getting access for new hires remembering what needs installing outdated documentation NO documentation conflicting documentation omg Eclipse configs Monday, July 29, 13
45. let’s talk about workstations the myth of only once slowdowns getting access for new hires remembering what needs installing outdated documentation NO documentation conflicting documentation omg Eclipse configs gemsets Monday, July 29, 13
46. let’s talk about workstations the myth of only once slowdowns getting access for new hires remembering what needs installing outdated documentation NO documentation conflicting documentation omg Eclipse configs gemsets .rvmrc files Monday, July 29, 13
47. When you’ve tried everything you could find on the internet to get stuff installed and working the myth of only once Monday, July 29, 13
48. why???!? no more excuses Monday, July 29, 13
49. why???!? no more excuses Monday, July 29, 13
50. Intangibles all that is gold does not glitter Monday, July 29, 13
51. Intangibles all that is gold does not glitter Monday, July 29, 13
52. Intangibles are you hiring? what message are you sending to potential employees? Monday, July 29, 13
53. Intangibles are you hiring? what message are you sending to potential employees? Monday, July 29, 13
54. Intangibles happiness repeatedly solving the same problems is demoralizing Monday, July 29, 13
55. Intangibles happiness repeatedly solving the same problems is demoralizing ruby toolchains are Monday, July 29, 13
56. Intangibles happiness repeatedly solving the same problems is demoralizing ruby toolchains are hard for newbs Monday, July 29, 13
57. Intangibles happiness repeatedly solving the same problems is demoralizing ruby toolchains are hard for newbs hard for experienced devs Monday, July 29, 13
58. Intangibles happiness repeatedly solving the same problems is demoralizing ruby toolchains are hard for newbs hard for experienced devs utterly rage-inducing for Java devs Monday, July 29, 13
59. Intangibles happiness automating the tedium gives you more time for the hard (fun) problems you have smarter peeps when people write automation instead of wiki pages to solve problems Monday, July 29, 13
60. Intangibles No one’s paying us to automate When billable hours are king your employee base will reflect that Monday, July 29, 13
61. Intangibles No one’s paying us to automate Monday, July 29, 13
62. Intangibles No one’s paying us to automate Easily spinning up a fresh and functioning dev environment for each new project will Monday, July 29, 13
63. Intangibles No one’s paying us to automate Easily spinning up a fresh and functioning dev environment for each new project will - impress clients Monday, July 29, 13
64. Intangibles No one’s paying us to automate Easily spinning up a fresh and functioning dev environment for each new project will - impress clients - ease the tedium of new projects Monday, July 29, 13
65. Intangibles No one’s paying us to automate Easily spinning up a fresh and functioning dev environment for each new project will - impress clients - ease the tedium of new projects - ease documentation for turnover Monday, July 29, 13
66. Intangibles No one’s paying us to automate Easily spinning up a fresh and functioning dev environment for each new project will - impress clients - ease the tedium of new projects - ease documentation for turnover - morphs easily into automated env builds for the app Monday, July 29, 13
67. Intangibles Power Base Monday, July 29, 13
68. Intangibles Power Base Identical installs across people Monday, July 29, 13
69. Intangibles Power Base Identical installs across people A reliable learning tool for newbs Monday, July 29, 13
70. Intangibles Power Base Identical installs across people A reliable learning tool for newbs A base for local testing automation Monday, July 29, 13
71. just do eet! no more excuses Monday, July 29, 13
72. just do eet! no more excuses Monday, July 29, 13
73. we’ve got the power puppet soloist rubygems railsinstaller chef boxen omnibus creator rerun Monday, July 29, 13
74. RailsInstaller - railsinstaller.org ***works on windows*** SoloWizard - solowizard.com Sprout - github.com/pivotal-sprout/sprout-wrap boxen - github.com/boxen/boxen omnibus-ruby - github.com/opscode/omnibus-ruby Chef - opscode.com Puppet - puppetlabs.com rerun - rerun.github.io/rerun CF Engine - cfengine.com Monday, July 29, 13
75. To Be Continued.... with failing fast local testing Monday, July 29, 13