Puppets, Chefs, and Ansibles - Making sense of the provisioning circus

COME ONE! COME ALL! As we explore the circus of server provisioning and automation tools. Watch the puppet show and learn how to make your servers dance at your command! We'll manifest production environments right before your very eyes! See the cooking show where our Chef whips up a fresh batch of servers from their playbooks ready to bring your application to your visitors! Lastly, watch how ansible makes easy work of automating everything from application deployments to server updates. We'll even cover your servers in fabric - the pythonic remote execution tool for server automation! We'll give a whirlwind tour of each tool and show real world examples of usage. We'll compare, contrast, and maybe enjoy some cotton candy while we wait for the tools to run!

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1. Puppets, Chefs, and Ansibles – Making Sense of the Provisioning Circus Joe Ferguson
2. Who Am I? Joe Ferguson PHP Developer PHP Architect @ Ministry Brands Twitter: @JoePFerguson Organizer of @MemphisPHP OSMI Board Member Certified Laravel Developer Drone Racing Pilot
3. What is a Provisioner?
4. The Provisioning Circus
6. Download the Puppet Learning VM https://puppet.com/download-learning-vm
7. Puppet Learning VM
8. Puppet Learning VM
9. Puppet Learning VM
10. Puppet Learning VM
11. Puppet Learning VM
12. Puppet Learning VM
13. Running puppet agent —test
14. Checking our Graphite App Graphite installed Graphite Displaying Sample Data
15. Out-of-Enterprise Puppet https://puphpet.com
16. https://puphpet.com
17. Deployment Target
18. Languages
19. Download
20. Vagrant Up
21. Simple Manifest Yaml
23. http://learn.chef.io
26. vagrant init bento/centos-7
27. Vagrant ssh
28. Install Chef DK
29. Creating a motd via Chef
30. Running our hello.rb
31. Running our hello.rb
32. Check the contents of our file
33. Running our hello.rb again
34. Update the motd
35. chef-client --local-mode hello.rb
36. Delete the motd file
37. chef-client --local-mode goodbye.rb
38. Chef Concepts Resources describe the what, not the how Recipe is a file that holds one or more resources hello.rb was our resource Resources have actions :create is the default action. We didn’t have to specify. Recipes organize resources
39. Configure a package and service
40. Creating webserver.rb
41. Running webserver.rb
42. Configure Service for apache2
43. Running webserver.rb
44. Add default html to apache
45. Running webserver.rb
46. Verify file contents updated
47. Chef works in the order you specify
49. pip install ansible
50. Ansible Concepts Modules Standalone work units to perform a task Inventory Configuration Declaration of target systems to perform tasks upon Playbooks Complete set of roles / list of actions to take
51. Create Ansible Playbook
52. Running Our Ansible Playbook
53. Ansible Variable Precedence http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/playbooks_variables.html
54. Ansible Variable Precedence Role Defaults (In your role folder) Inventory (Your inventory File) Inventory Group (Inventory Group variables) Inventory Host (In Inventory Host) …many more
55. Reusing Playbooks from others
56. Ansible Galaxy Authors
57. Adding ansible-role-php
58. Adding ansible-role-php
59. Running ansible-role-php
60. Ansible can deploy your code
61. Ansible Tower https://www.ansible.com/products/tower/editions
62. Ansible Tower https://www.ansible.com/products/tower/pricing
63. AWX - Open Source Tower
65. pip install fabric
66. Fabric Basics
67. Running hello()
68. Getting Info From Remote System
69. Getting Info From Remote System
70. Upgrade the Remote System
71. Upgrade the Remote System
72. Compress and Grab Log Files
73. Compress and Grab Log Files
74. Grouping Methods
75. Which Should You Use?
76. Resources / Q & A Puppet Learning VM https://puppet.com/download-learning-vm http://www.puphpet.com https://learn.chef.io http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/playbooks_variables.html http://docs.fabfile.org
77. Joe Ferguson Twitter: @JoePFerguson Email: joe@joeferguson.me Freenode: joepferguson Contact Info: Feedback! https://joind.in/talk/a4d60