Agile Devops in the Cloud Chamith J Kumarage Member, Cloud Devops Team WSO2
Outline • Automation • Monitoring and Analytics • Agile Delivery • Tools and Utilities • Scaling into the cloud • Devops at WSO2
Automation ● Tools that perform functions otherwise done by humans. ● Task execution ○ Repetitive tasks ● Process flow ○ Connects tasks and decisions ● Decision trigger ○ When and Why to take action
source: https://xkcd.com/1319/
Automation contd. ● Design for failure ● Validate every operation ● Enforce discipline ( and process ) ● Accelerates execution ● Improves agility Be the automator, without being automated!
Monitoring and Analytics ● Discovery ○ Normal vs abnormal ● Communication ○ Do you understand what it say? ● The big picture ● Root cause analysis Hint: #monitoringsucks
source: http://www.teachthought.com/technology/the-relationship-between-confusion- information/ source: http://www.philcallaway.ab.ca/images/Cartoons/privacy%20cartoon2.jpg
Agile Delivery ● Discoverability ○ Create, Test and Deploy in smaller increments ● Quality ○ Frequent testing, Catch bugs when they are small ● Operations is the first customer ● Continuous delivery or Continuous deployment
Source: http://blog.crisp.se/2013/02/05/yassalsundman/continuous-delivery-vs-continuous-deployment
Tools and Utilities ● Shorten the pipeline from dev -> production ● Enforce best practices and standards ● No need to reinvent the wheel ● Each tool can be a component of a framework ● Documentation is a must ● Has to comply with the ‘bus monkey’ test
Scaling into the Cloud ● Automatic failure detection and prediction ● Self healing at all possible levels ● Use native cloud offerings ● One-Click operations ● Design for failure ● Kill instance test (chaos monkey test) is a must!
Devops at WSO2 ● Focused on “one-click” deployments ● Use Puppet and a few homemade tools for automation ● Icinga and Heartbeat Checker for first-level monitoring ● Heavily use Python for automation ● Ruby to extend Puppet features ● Working on getting Continuous deployment to action We are not there yet :)
Devops at WSO2 contd. ● Primarily use AWS infrastructure technologies ● ~100 EC2 instance ● ~15 RDS instances ● ~140 services ● Ownership: ~65 resources/person
Thank you! chamith@wso2.com @gnuchami

Agile devops in the cloud