2. Puppet @ Spreadshirt
The Spreadshirt e-commerce platform lets anyone
create, sell and buy ideas on things consumers love
to wear, use and carry.
3. Puppet @ Spreadshirt
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B2B & B2C points-of-sale
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Choose from over 140 quality products
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Each item made print-on-demand
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Minimum order = 1 item
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Localized services for 17 countries
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Delivered within 3 to 7 days
5. Puppet @ Spreadshirt
How is Spreadshirt using Puppet?
● Currently different environments at
○ OPS (Opennebula)
○ QA (EC2)
○ DEV (Vagrant)
● Transitions between those environments cause
confusion and errors
● Own installer hard to maintain, very Java-specific
6. Puppet @ Spreadshirt
Our tools
● Puppet
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“Puppet is IT automation software that helps system administrators
manage infrastructure throughout its lifecycle ”
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http://www.puppetlabs.com
7. Puppet @ Spreadshirt
Puppet
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Puppet provides a declarative language to describe a
systems configuration
● The most atomic element is the type which descibes
a basic configuration item
● Rules are organized in manifests
● Manifests include classes from modules
● Puppet supports variables, facts and templates
8. Puppet @ Spreadshirt
Our tools
● r10k
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“R10K is a hybrid solution for deploying Puppet code...deploying
Puppet environments based on Git branches... provides an
implementation of the Puppetfile format...R10K can provide your
modules for you.”
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https://github.com/adrienthebo/r10k
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http://somethingsinistral.net/blog/rethinking-puppet-deployment/
9. Puppet @ Spreadshirt
R10K
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R10K helps us manage our
modules
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Allows us to store our modules
along with the software it
deploys
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This enables re-use of
modules in different contexts
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DEV, OPS and QA can use the same module to deploy an artifact
without copy-and-paste-ing the code all over the place
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Much like puppet-librarian, but also creates puppet-environments
based on GIT-branches
10. Puppet @ Spreadshirt
R10K
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Puppetfile is a file which contains
references to modules we want on
out module-path
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R10K checkout out those modules when it runs
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OK, an example:
mod ‘jetty’,
:git => "git@git.spreadomat.net:puppet/jetty.git"
mod 'content-service',
:git => "git@git.spreadomat.net:puppet/content-service.git",
:ref => "1.0.0"
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Modulename, GIT-Source, optional git-branch
11. Puppet @ Spreadshirt
Our tools
● hiera
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“Hiera is a key/value lookup tool for configuration data. It makes
Puppet better by keeping site-specific data out of your manifests. ”
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http://docs.puppetlabs.com/hiera/1/
12. Puppet @ Spreadshirt
Hiera
● Configuration differs from context to context
● Configuration should not be hardcoded in manifests
● E.g. we may have:
$memory=”-Xmx8192M”
● But actually we want:
$memory=”-Xmx512M” (DEV)
$memory=”-Xmx1024M” (QA)
$memory=”-Xmx8192M” (OPS)
13. Puppet @ Spreadshirt
Hiera
● Hiera seperates deployment description from
configuration
$memory=hiera(“memory”)
● Hiera looks up the actual value based on a hierachy
we define
● Various backends to retrieve values
14. Puppet @ Spreadshirt
Hiera
● Storage of data in module by using the backend
yaml_data_in_modules
● Our own backend, open-source
https://github.com/mythsunwind/yaml_data_in_modules
16. Puppet @ Spreadshirt
Hiera
● Lets look at a typical lookup path:
common.yaml
app_name: content-service
port:4747
qa.yaml
port: 2318
● So for a EU system in QA:
app_name: content-service
port: 2318
lang=de_DE, en_GB
qa-eu.yaml
lang=de_DE, en_GB
qa-na.yaml
lang=en_US
17. Puppet @ Spreadshirt
Conclusions
● Spreadshirt uses Puppet to deploy more and more of
its infrastructure
● To enable continuous deployment we aim to have a
uniform development, test und live-infrastrucuture
● Puppet in combination with R10K and
hiera brings are the perfect tools for this
