Nathen Harvey, Chef Automation at scale is the foundation of every successful high velocity organization. Automation requires dynamic infrastructure that is managed as code. Modern infrastructure code means bringing the lessons from software development to your infrastructure. Automation is managed in version control systems, tests drive code development, code moves through a continuous pipeline from the workstation to the production environment. What will this look like in five years? We will see a continued improvement in the way teams work together toward common goals, build more operable applications, and embrace complexity while improving ease-of-use.

1. November 15, 2016
Modern Infrastructure Automa:on
Nathen Harvey, VP Community Development, Chef | @nathenharvey

2. November 15, 2016
Nathen Harvey
VP, Community Development at Chef
Co-host of the Food Fight Show Podcast
Occasional farmer – hNp://ei.chef.io
Love eggs – hNp://eggs.chef.io
#hugops – hNp://hugops.chef.io
@nathenharvey
nharvey@chef.io

3. November 15, 2016
We’re no longer an airline. We’re a software
company with wings.
– Veresh Sita, CIO, Alaska
Airlines
Now every business is a software business

4. November 15, 2016
No high velocity
company
has gotten there without
automation at scale as a
foundation
Automation at scale is required for high velocity IT
Continuous
Improvement
Citi relies on Chef as the automation platform used to
help transform over 3,000 application teams. Chef is
important enough to Citi that Citi became an investor in
Chef.
Chef is the platform for a continuous delivery pipeline
empowering application teams to ship a thousand plus
changes per day across “Carl Sagan size deployments.”
GE touts Chef as the most rapidly adopted technology in
the history of GE.
idea ship

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Automation at Scale
Dynamic
Infrastructure

6. November 15, 2016
Dynamic infrastructure
Migrate applica:ons to the cloud and support hybrid and mul:-cloud environments.
Automate the management of heterogeneous networks, including legacy systems.
• Provisioning and seUng up
environments
• Dynamic scaling of compute resources
• Migra:ng legacy workloads to the cloud
• Mul: cloud and hybrid cloud
deployment
• Support for heterogeneous
environments

7. November 15, 2016
Dynamic
Infrastructure
Infrastructure as Code
+
Automation at Scale

8. November 15, 2016
Infrastructure as Code
Turn infrastructure into code—infrastructure as code is versionable, testable and repeatable. Manual
processes become a thing of the past.
• Automated, full-stack applica:on policies
• Package and service installa:on
• Versionable, testable, repeatable workflow
• Scalable applica:on policies
• Management of interdependencies across
nodes

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Infrastructure as Code
• Programma:cally provision
and configure components

10. November 15, 2016
Infrastructure as Code
• Programma:cally provision
and configure components
• Treat like any other code
base

11. November 15, 2016
Infrastructure as Code
• Programma:cally provision
and configure components
• Treat like any other code
base
• Reconstruct business from
code repository, data backup,
and compute resources

12. November 15, 2016
Infrastructure as code and delivery at scale
● Manages deployment and on-going
automation
● Define reusable resources and
infrastructure state as code
● Scale elegantly from one to tens of
thousands of managed nodes across
multiple complex environments

13. November 15, 2016
Test the Code
describe 'apache::default' do
context 'When all attributes are default, on an unspecified platform' do
let(:chef_run) do
runner = ChefSpec::ServerRunner.new(platform: 'ubuntu', version: '16.04')
runner.converge(described_recipe)
end
it 'installs apache' do
expect(chef_run).to install_package 'apache2'
end
end
end

14. November 15, 2016
Version the Code & the Ar:fact
name 'all_day_devops'
maintainer 'Nathen Harvey'
maintainer_email 'nharvey@chef.io'
license 'apache2'
description 'Installs/Configures devops all day long'
long_description 'Installs/Configures devops all day'
version '0.1.0'

15. November 15, 2016
Infrastructure Code
Source
Code
Repo
Artifact
Artifact
Repo

16. November 15, 2016
Pipeline to Produc:on
Test the
code

17. November 15, 2016
Pipeline to Produc:on
APPROVE
Test the
code
Does this
code change
look good?

18. November 15, 2016
Pipeline to Produc:on
APPROVE
Test the
code
Build an
artifact
Does this
code change
look good?

19. November 15, 2016
Pipeline to Produc:on
APPROVE
Test the
code
Build an
artifact
Test the
artifact
Does this
code change
look good?

20. November 15, 2016
Pipeline to Produc:on
APPROVE DELIVER
Test the
code
Build an
artifact
Test the
artifact
Does this
code change
look good?
Do we want
to ship this?

21. November 15, 2016
Pipeline to Produc:on
APPROVE DELIVER
Test the
code
Build an
artifact
Test the
artifact
Ship to
customersDoes this
code change
look good?
Do we want
to ship this?

22. November 15, 2016
What’s Next?

23. November 15, 2016
Infrastructure
Automation
Infrastructure Automa:on is NOT Enough

24. November 15, 2016

25. November 15, 2016
Communications Problem

26. November 15, 2016
Mapping Compliance Document to InSpec
control 'ssh-6.2.1' do
title 'Set SSH Protocol to 2'
end

27. November 15, 2016
Mapping Compliance Document to InSpec
control 'ssh-6.2.1' do
title 'Set SSH Protocol to 2'
desc "
SSH supports two different ...
"
end

28. November 15, 2016
Mapping Compliance Document to InSpec
control 'ssh-6.2.1' do
title 'Set SSH Protocol to 2'
desc "
SSH supports two different ...
"
describe sshd_config do
its('Protocol') { should cmp('2') }
end
end

29. November 15, 2016
Mapping Compliance Document to InSpec
control 'ssh-6.2.1' do
impact 1.0
title 'Set SSH Protocol to 2'
desc "
SSH supports two different ...
"
describe sshd_config do
its('Protocol') { should cmp('2') }
end
end

30. November 15, 2016
Infrastructure
Automation
Compliance
Automation

31. November 15, 2016

32. November 15, 2016
Applica:ons

33. November 15, 2016
Modern Applica:ons
Source
Code
Repo
Artifact
Bare Metal
Containers
Cloud Instance
VM
Artifact
Repo

34. November 15, 2016
Operable Applica:ons
• Isolated
• Immutable
• Configurable
• Common interface for monitoring health
• Rebuild from source
• Common packaging
• Run:me Independence

35. November 15, 2016
Freedom to Focus
• Create features to drive the business and
delight customers
• Bare metal, virtualiza:on, cloud, PaaS?
• Defer choices about infrastructure un:l late in
the development lifecycle

36. November 15, 2016
Infrastructure
Automation
Application
Automation
Compliance
Automation

37. November 15, 2016
Infrastructure Automation Application Automation Compliance Automation

38. November 15, 2016

39. DEVOPS
A cultural and professional movement,
focused on how we build and operate
high velocity organizations, born from
the experiences of its practitioners.

40. People
Products
Companies

42. Non-bullet slide
Non-bullet slide subtitle
Community
Our Foundation

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45. November 15, 2016
Nathen Harvey
VP, Community Development at Chef
Co-host of the Food Fight Show Podcast
Occasional farmer – hNp://ei.chef.io
Love eggs – hNp://eggs.chef.io
#hugops – hNp://hugops.chef.io
@nathenharvey
nharvey@chef.io