2013-09-25 Wednesday - Tooling to Support Continuous Deployment

This posting is a placeholder for resources links and notes about tooling that I find interesting to support DevOps in the challenges of Configuration Management and [Continuous?] Deployment.

For some somewhat agnostic overviews of tooling and processes that can support continuous deployment  in practice...these presentations may be of interest:

• http://www.slideshare.net/markstanislav/keeping-the-cloud-promise-infrastructure-agility-with-a-devops-toolchain
• http://www.slideshare.net/traylenator/cern-agile-infrastructure-road-to-production
• http://www.slideshare.net/jmcgarr/continuous-delivery-applied-agile-richmond
• http://www.slideshare.net/socializedsoftware/linuxfest-nw-2013-hitchikers-guide-to-open-source-cloud-computing

While many companies have stringent regulatory constraints that require more thoughtful and methodical approaches to deployment, I thought it worth noting how Etsy.com implemented a RADICAL (!) DevOps culture - as an inspiring example to challenge status quo thinking of "but-that's-not-the-way-we-do-things-here..."

http://www.slideshare.net/OReillyOSCON/put-a-button-on-it-removing-barriers-to-going-fast

A Wikipedia article - providing a sparse summary/survey of some open source solutions for automated deployment tooling...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_open-source_configuration_management_software

There is a great deal of fast-paced innovation in the tooling space for deployment & configuration management – here are some of the tools (slightly listed in order of what I find to be interesting and innovative)…

http://www.ansibleworks.com/

• http://www.slideshare.net/Codemotion/infrastructure-as-data-with-ansible-systems-and-cloud-deployment-and-management-for-the-lazy-developer-by-carlo-bonamico
• http://www.slideshare.net/lorinh/vagrant-ansible-and-openstack-on-your-laptop

http://puppetlabs.com/

• http://www.slideshare.net/PuppetLabs/deploying-datacenters-with-puppet-puppetcamp-europe-2010
• http://www.slideshare.net/PuppetLabs/scalable-systems-management-with-puppet
• http://www.slideshare.net/pk.habi/cloud-meetsfogpuppetrootconf

https://juju.ubuntu.com/

http://www.yadt-project.org/

• http://www.slideshare.net/schlomo/linux-tag-2013-data-center-automation-with-yadt?from_search=2

http://cfengine.com/

http://www.lcfg.org/

http://saltstack.com/community.html

http://www.opscode.com/chef/

• http://www.slideshare.net/jesserobbins/using-chef-for-automated-infrastructure-in-the-cloud
• http://www.slideshare.net/adamhjk/infrastructure-automation-with-chef

Microsoft System Center 2012

http://www.slideshare.net/kristiannese/nic-2013-configure-and-deploy-private-cloud?from_search=3

http://dploy.io/

http://wiki.smartfrog.org/display/sf/SmartFrog+Home

http://trac.mcs.anl.gov/projects/bcfg2/

http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/etch/wiki

http://www.ocsinventory-ng.org/en

https://trac.lal.in2p3.fr/Quattor/wiki/Web?redirectedfrom=Web/Overview

Less sophisticated, but perhaps a good example of how some shops can still make improvements over manual processes...even if it is just by doing things with bare-bones scripting…for example, via Rex

http://www.slideshare.net/inovex/rex-lightning-talkyapceu2013?from_search=1