DevOps by examples

Giulio Vian

http://blog.casavian.eu/
giulio.dev@casavian.eu
@giulio_vian
http://www.getlatestversion.it/
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TFS Aggregator

2010 2014 2015 2016

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This Session
100/200-level
Grasp the essentials of the DevOps approach.
(well …, some essentials)
Leave open questions to the end

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What we will talk about?
DevOps intro
Demos
Environment hosting the app
The Application itself
Deployment
Dynamic configuration
Wrap-up
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Your turn
Azure
Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS)
ASP.NET
Linux (Ubuntu)

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«Appetizer»

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DevOps is a job?

O !
N
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DevOps is a product?

O !
N
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DevOps is a culture, movement or practice
Wikipedia (2017)

DevOps is a term used to refer to a set of practices that emphasizes

the collaboration and communication of both software
developers and other information-technology (IT) professionals
while automating the process of software delivery and
infrastructure changes.
Gartner
DevOps represents a change in IT culture, focusing on rapid IT service delivery through the adoption of agile,
lean practices in the context of a system-oriented approach. DevOps emphasizes people (and culture), and
seeks to improve collaboration between operations and development teams. DevOps implementations
utilize technology — especially automation tools that can leverage an increasingly programmable and
dynamic infrastructure from a life cycle perspective.

DevOps is the union of people, process, and products to enable

continuous delivery of value to our end users.
Microsoft (Donovan Brown)
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Continuous Delivery evolution…

Source: Jez Humble © 2010

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…rooted in Agile Principles
Individuals and interactions
over processes and tools
Working software
over comprehensive documentation
Customer collaboration
over contract negotiation
Responding to change
over following a plan
http://agilemanifesto.org/
«Main course»
Where? Infrastructure-as-Code
What? Build & Package
How? Deploy
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Execution environment

Application Data

O.S. Modules
Network & External Services
Local Services, Libraries

Operating System
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Execution environment (alt)

Application

o p e
c
Data

s
(in container)

- of - Network & External Services

O t
Custom Container

u
(e.g. Kubernetes)

Base container
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Execution environment – Comments
Setup times vs. launch times
Capacity planning
Running costs (Buy vs. Make)

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Infrastructure-as-
Code
Azure Resource Manager
• Code
• Automation

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Infrastructure-as-Code – Comments
Azure Resource Manager
Declarative vs. Imperative Declarative Json-based
Extensible (script, DSC)
Version Control Entire infrastructure
AWS CloudFormation
Continuous Integration Declarative Json-based
Dynamic vs. Static Terraform
Docker
Not much declarative
Single container
Swarm, Kubernetes, Mesos, …
Ansible, Puppet, Chef, CFEngine, …
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Application
Web page showing DB data
• Environment
• Configuration

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Build & Packaging
Collect everything

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Build & Packaging – Comments
Version Control
Continuous Integration
Semantic Versioning
Artifacts
Images (Docker, AMI, Azure VM images)

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Deploy
VSTS Release Management
• Controlled Automation

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Secrets
Build time .gitignore
Signing
Deploy time Centralized Version Control
Credentials Distinct repositories
Run time
Tokens
Azure Key Vault,
Avoid exposures AWS Key Management Service,
git push hook etc.
Static analysis

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Deploy – Comments
Category
Dev / QA / Prod
Integrated (dynamic)
Release cadence
Feature toggles

Source: Pete Hodgson

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Dynamic
Configuration
Feature Toggle

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Additional DevOps topics (out-of-scope)
Application Monitoring
Troubleshooting
Feedback loop
…and more
Dev Ops

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«Dessert»

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People

(Photo: DoD)

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Automation

(Photo: Alexander Dummer)

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Resources

(Photo: Elya)

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Call to action

(Photo: Francesco Canu)

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Bibliografy & References
https://github.com/giuliov/DevOps-by-examples
http://www.slideshare.net/giuliov/presentations
http://martinfowler.com/articles/feature-toggles.html
https://leanpub.com/build
https://launchdarkly.com/
http://agilemanifesto.org/
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/application-insights/
https://github.com/tfsaggregator/tfsaggregator
https://github.com/aspnet
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/key-vault/
https://aws.amazon.com/kms/
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/buckh/2016/09/30/controlling-exposure-through-feature-
flags-in-vs-team-services/
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To know more
Continuous Delivery: Reliable Software
Releases through Build, Test, and
Deployment Automation — J.Humble,
D.Farley (Addison-Wesley)
https://www.amazon.com/Continuous-Deliv
ery/dp/0321601912/
The Phoenix Project — G.Kim, K.Behr,
G.Spafford (IT Revolution Press)
https://www.amazon.com/Phoenix-Project-
DevOps-Helping-Business/dp/0988262509/ 33
To know more (cont’d)
The DevOps Handbook — G.Kim,
P.Debois, J.Willis, J.Humble (IT
Revolution Press)
https://www.amazon.com/DevOps-Handbo
ok-World-Class-Reliability-Organizations/dp/
1942788002/
Continuous Delivery with Visual Studio
ALM 2015 — M.Olausson, J.Ehn
(Apress)
http://www.amazon.com/Continuous-Deliv 34
Partial checklist
Where is configuration stored?
How is configuration updated?
Is production configuration isolated and secured?
Where are the secrets and who can access them?
How versions are tracked?
Who authorizes changes and how?
How data is preserved on updates?
How data schema and module interfaces updates?
Using environment images or scripts?
How big is the deploy window?
How are the tracked activities and errors?
How are operational data is collected from production?

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Fine delle trasmissioni

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Demo Screenshots

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Infrastructure-as-Code
Azure Portal
Resource Groups
Resulting Resource Group
Visual Studio Team Services – Project home

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Visual Studio Team Services Release Management
Create/Update Resource Group
Install packages
Environment creation in progress
Resulting Environment

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Application

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Version Control
Home page

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Query “C”

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Build & Packaging

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Continuous Integration
Semantic Versioning
App build script
Deploy

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App deploy script – Database
App deploy script – Copy files to Target
App deploy script – Run final setup script
App deploy – configuration data
App deploy – source packages
Deploying the app
Deploying the app – pick a version
App deploy log
App deployed

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Dynamic Configuration

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Toggle feature script – generate new config files
Toggle feature deploy script – deploy config changes
New configuration data