Devops

Nice writeup of one organisations adoption of devops ideas, in particular to help improve the quality and maintainability of deployed software.

Following is my grouping of tools that i have learned/used as a sysad and devops person at ThoughtWorks while maintaining our distributed infrastructure, setting up our private cloud installations, and in many different client gigs .

I'm going to assume you've got a Puppet module already on GitHub. To save messing around with bundler on your local machine, I recommend installing puppet-lint and rspec-puppet as system gems while you're getting this all set up.

Infrastructure Anywhere - seedbank

Although Puppet Enterprise gives you the wonderful tools to automate your Linux administration, you still cannot deploy a server with a single command. With the following script, you can. Why is this so cool? When, for instance, a new Tomcat server is needed, I create a DNS entry for that server and give a single command and get some coffee. Before it has cooled down enough to drink, the developer has his Tomcat-app deployed and the server is operational. (It takes about 8 minutes to get from scratch to a fully operational server.)

During the Devopsdays in Hambourg, one of the most recuring discussion was about "packaging vs non-packaging, when and what?" I won't try to convince people on what do do when, neither will I say I have the absolute best solution, this post just illustrates the solution I implemented with @zipkid. Some points aren't finished yet, not implemented... or we have not yet decided which direction to follow.