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Configuration Management Camp 2015

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February 03, 2015
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Configuration Management Camp 2015

Ghent Belgium

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February 03, 2015
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Transcript

  1. Chef Reusability! Config Management Camp! Ghent, Belgium! February 2015

  2. Sean OMeara! sean@chef.io! @someara

  3. whoami

  4. Part 1

  5. Things that are true

  6. New Chef users expect community cookbooks to just work

  7. Especially the Chef maintained cookbooks

  8. This is not the current state of things

  9. This leads to sadness

  10. We must repair it

  11. People copy patterns

  12. The status quo cannot be allowed to continue

  13. Common pain points https://www.flickr.com/photos/kwl/4595324641

  14. Platform and version support

  15. Weak scoping

  16. No standard interface

  17. Compilation phase work

  18. Needing chef-rewind

  19. Attributes and precedence

  20. Pattern proliferation

  21. The path out of the darkness https://www.flickr.com/photos/71267357@N06/15864687537

  22. Change how cookbooks are written

  23. systems beliefs! behaviors

  24. Standardize interfaces

  25. Eliminate the pain points

  26. Focus on resources

  27. Make it super easy! to write resources

  28. Ship resources for ALL THE THINGS

  29. Copy better patterns

  30. Make it fucking delightful

  31. None

  32. Part 2

  33. Simple design patterns https://www.flickr.com/photos/pollock/4172865252

  34. None
  35. None

  36. You just separated data from code

  37. You also just built an interface

  38. Complex design patterns https://www.flickr.com/photos/alanosaur/6417040565

  39. None
  40. None

  41. This is where things get weird

  42. amazon debian-6 debian-7 ubuntu-10.04 ubuntu-12.04 ubuntu-14.04 centos-5 centos-6 centos-7 freebsd-9

    freebsd-10

  43. Debconf! Docker! LaunchD! Runit! SMF! Simple! SystemD! Sysvinit! Upstart! Windows

    Services

  44. There is a large amount of variation between software versions

  45. There is an insane amount variation across platforms

  46. These differences need to be handled somewhere

  47. Early techniques did everything in the recipe

  48. data resource pattern

  49. Later techniques focused on isolation

  50. Resource pattern isolation

  51. None

  52. private recipes by convention

  53. Resource data isolation

  54. None
  55. None

  56. We now have decision logic in our interface

  57. Default values often need to be computed

  58. Doing this in the interface leads to sorrow

  59. None

  60. We need a better way

  61. Consumption Patterns https://www.flickr.com/photos/ektogamat/2578779839

  62. None
  63. None
  64. None
  65. None

  66. Why resources are best https://www.flickr.com/photos/cross_stitch_ninja/4932950637

  67. node attributes roles environments databags are nice to haves

  68. They drive data about resources

  69. Resources are fundamental

  70. Resources are strongly scoped

  71. Resources have a standardized interface

  72. Resources have types, names, and parameters

  73. Type

  74. Name

  75. Parameters

  76. Resources have identities

  77. None

  78. Resource can see each other

  79. Promise to talk

  80. Promise to listen

  81. Resource behave the same across platforms

  82. None
  83. None
  84. None

  85. Resource can have multiple providers

  86. None

  87. Writing simple resources

  88. yum

  89. </switches github>

  90. Writing complex resources

  91. mysql httpd

  92. </switches github>

  93. fin