DevOps For Small Teams
Joe Ferguson
https://joind.in/13966
My first “dev” job
Hired to convert PSDs to HTML
My first “dev” job
Hired to convert PSDs to
Ended up building / hacking at web apps
My first “dev” job
Hired to convert PSDs to
Ended up building / hacking at web apps
We had no DevOps (was it even a thing then?)
My first “dev” job
Hired to convert PSDs to
Ended up building / hacking at web apps
We had no DevOps (was it even a thing then?)
We invested in metal
My first “dev” job
Hired to convert PSDs to
Ended up building / hacking at web apps
We had no DevOps (was it even a thing then?)
We invested in metal
Just started using “the cloud”
My second dev job
Yay I'm not alone!
My second dev job
Yay I'm not alone!
I was still "the server person"
Yay I'm not alone!
I was still "the server person”
Scaling a team
We needed to scale up (and skill up) our team
My second dev job
Scaling a team
Version control is NOT renaming files
Version control EVERYTHING
Teaching our team VCS
https://try.github.io
Teaching our team VCS
https://guides.github.com
Trial & Error is ok!
Scaling a team
Stop Editing In Production!
No more edit
& uploading!
Everything goes into
version control!
Disable FTP Access!
# echo troy >> /etc/ftpuser
# echo andy >> /etc/ftpuser
# echo joe >> /etc/ftpuser
Better yet, disable FTP completely
Scaling a team
Development environments
MAMP, LAMP, WAMP,
WAT?
Mac/Linux/Windows Apache MySQL PHP
These are all great tools
Do you deploy to
MAMP/WAMP?
They why dev on it?
Catch those env bugs earlier
Remove the phrase
“…It works on my machine…”
From your team
Stop using WAMP/MAMP
and start using Vagrant!
Vagrant allows you to:
• Create a server
• Configure a server
• Delete a server
…over and over and over..
Not sure how to create a
Vagrant box?
https://puphpet.com
https://puphpet.com
Guided path to create your own Vagrant
Supports common Distributions
Customize users, firewall rules, cron jobs
Add databases, virtual hosts
Supports Ruby, PHP, Python, NodeJS, HHVM
Beanstalkd & RabbitMQ
Elastic Search & Apache Solr
Vagrant Cookbook
https://leanpub.com/vagrantcookbook
Scaling a team
Test your code!
Testing was the hardest part for us.
The payoffs in catching regression bugs and
confidence in our deployments was well worth it
Testing Resources
https://leanpub.com/grumpy-testinghttps://leanpub.com/grumpy-phpunit
http://grumpy-learning.com
Continuous Integration
Continuous Delivery
Continuous Integration
Frequently integrate code changes into the
existing code repository
Merging branches to master/production
Automated build tests to ensure issues found
quickly
Does not have to be deployed
Continuous Delivery
Produce valuable changes in code in short cycles
to be released at any time.
AKA: Continuous Deployment
Automated build tests to ensure issues found
quickly
Deployment happens on successful build
Which is right for you?
Your goal should be Continuous Integration (at
least!)
Strive for Continuous Delivery if it makes sense
Applications with a live event component may
not be suited for Continuous Delivery
There are a lot of CI
solutions out there
ServersForHackers.com
What is your process?
Create your workflow
Optimize your time in
the console
Work smarter not harder
Stop typing the same commands
git status
git pull origin master
git branch —set-upstream-to=origin/master
vagrant global-status | grep running
redis-server /usr/local/etc/redis.conf
php -S localhost:8000
ssh svpernova@joeferguson.me -t screen -dR irc
gs
gpm
gsu
vgr
startredis
startphp
irc
Make use of aliases
alias gs=“git status”
alias gpm=“git pull origin master”
alias gsu=“git branch —set-upstream-to=origin/master”
alias vgr=“vagrant global-status | grep running”
alias startredis=“redis-server /usr/local/etc/redis.conf”
alias startphp=“php -S localhost:8000”
alias irc=“ssh svpernova@joeferguson.me -t screen -dR irc"
Use Screen for long
running processes
Think of screen as a
detachable window that
contains your console
Bash isn’t the only shell!
http://ohmyz.sh
Uses zsh
180+ Plugins
700+ Contributors
140+ Themes
Customize your shell
• Local IPs
• Date
• Current time
Green Text
because this is
the local machine
• User
• Hostname
• Current Path
• Current time
Customize your shell
• User
• Hostname
• Current Path
• Current time
• Local IPs
• Date
• Current time
Red Text
because this is
a remote machine
Customize your shell
Tab completion on steroids
+ Git branch info because we are in a repo
.zshrc
Automate Common
Tasks
Alias long commands
Shell script sequential commands
Use cron to run your scripts at specific times
Create installers for your settings
Version Control Configs
Do NOT version control
your SSH keys!
Recap
Version Control everything you can
Create a process that works for you
Practice how you play
Test everything you can
Automate everything you can
Feedback!
https://joind.in/13966
Joe Ferguson
Twitter: @JoePFerguson
Email: joe@joeferguson.me
Freenode: joepferguson
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DevOps For Small Teams