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
   

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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
   

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3. What is a Provisioner?
   

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4. The Provisioning Circus
   

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6. Download the Puppet Learning VM
   https://puppet.com/download-learning-vm
   

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7. Puppet Learning VM
   

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8. Puppet Learning VM
   

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9. Puppet Learning VM
   

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10. Puppet Learning VM
    

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11. Puppet Learning VM
    

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12. Puppet Learning VM
    

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13. Running puppet agent —test
    

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14. Checking our Graphite App
    Graphite installed Graphite Displaying Sample Data
    

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15. Out-of-Enterprise Puppet
    https://puphpet.com
    

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16. https://puphpet.com
    

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17. Deployment Target
    

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18. Languages
    

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19. Download
    

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20. Vagrant Up
    

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21. Simple Manifest Yaml
    

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23. http://learn.chef.io
    

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26. vagrant init bento/centos-7
    

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27. Vagrant ssh
    

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28. Install Chef DK
    

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29. Creating a motd via Chef
    

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30. Running our hello.rb
    

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31. Running our hello.rb
    

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32. Check the contents of our file
    

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33. Running our hello.rb again
    

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34. Update the motd
    

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35. chef-client --local-mode hello.rb
    

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36. Delete the motd file
    

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37. chef-client --local-mode goodbye.rb
    

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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
    

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39. Configure a package and service
    

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40. Creating webserver.rb
    

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41. Running webserver.rb
    

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42. Configure Service for apache2
    

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43. Running webserver.rb
    

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44. Add default html to apache
    

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45. Running webserver.rb
    

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46. Verify file contents updated
    

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47. Chef works in the order you
    specify
    

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49. pip install ansible
    

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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
    

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51. Create Ansible Playbook
    

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52. Running Our Ansible Playbook
    

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53. Ansible Variable Precedence
    http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/playbooks_variables.html
    

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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
    

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55. Reusing Playbooks from others
    

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56. Ansible Galaxy Authors
    

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57. Adding ansible-role-php
    

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58. Adding ansible-role-php
    

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59. Running ansible-role-php
    

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60. Ansible can deploy your code
    

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61. Ansible Tower
    https://www.ansible.com/products/tower/editions
    

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62. Ansible Tower
    https://www.ansible.com/products/tower/pricing
    

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63. AWX - Open Source Tower
    

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65. pip install fabric
    

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66. Fabric Basics
    

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67. Running hello()
    

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68. Getting Info From Remote System
    

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69. Getting Info From Remote System
    

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70. Upgrade the Remote System
    

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71. Upgrade the Remote System
    

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72. Compress and Grab Log Files
    

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73. Compress and Grab Log Files
    

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74. Grouping Methods
    

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75. Which Should You Use?
    

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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
    

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77. Joe Ferguson
    Twitter: @JoePFerguson
    Email: joe@joeferguson.me
    Freenode: joepferguson
    Contact Info:
    Feedback!
    https://joind.in/talk/a4d60
    

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