Show Date: July 22, 2013
Join us as we discuss Immutable Infrastructure with Chad Fowler.
This episode was inspired by Chad’s recent blog post on Immutable Infrastructure. For some additional thoughts on the subject, check-out Mike Fiedler’s #ChefConf talk: Treating Your Infrastructure Like Garbage.
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Panel
- Chad Fowler twitter, github, blog
- Craig Tracey twitter, github, blog
- Fletcher Nichol twitter, github
- Mike Fiedler github, twitter, blog
- Ranjib Dey github, twitter, blog
- Bryan Berry github, twitter, irc: bryanwb, blog: devopsanywhere
- Brandon Burton github, twitter
- Nathen Harvey github, twitter, irc: nathenharvey, blog
Chef News
DevOps Toolbox: Introduction - a series of blog posts from Christopher Laco that walks through many tools used with Chef. The series starts with installing pre-requisites like XCode, Ruby, and VirtualBox. Throughout the series, you’ll learn about Veewee, Vagrant, Chef Solo, Hosted Chef, and more!
Gusteau - a tasteful Chef Solo wrapper and configuration manager. This is a gem that aims to provide chef solo users with a more efficent workflow. It looks like an abstraction on top of Vagrant, Berkshelf, and Chef that makes it easier to get started with these various tools.
Outline
- Chef News
- Introductions
- Chad Fowler: Trash Your Servers and Burn Your Code: Immutable Infrastructure and Disposable Components
- Article Summary
- Changing Servers (Process)
- Repackaging AMIs
- Garbage Collection
- Autoscaling
- Servers
- Amazon RDS
- cassandra
- zookeeper
- Riak
- Classes of Servers
- RDS Performance
- Making Changes on the Server
- Termination Protection
- 6Wunderkinder: Wunderlist
- Golden Image System
- Pulling from Code Repos
- AMI vs Configuration Management
- Rebuilding AMIS
- Optimization
- Immutable Properties
- Handling Infrastructure Emergencies
- Homeostasis
- Keeping Log Files
- kitchen-docker
- Log Rotation
Picks
Brandon
Bryan
- Revolution in Storage - RICON East 2013
- Services Platform: Experiments in OTP-Compliant Dataflow Programming
Chad
- #shitfire on Freenode IRC
Craig
- Openstack bare metal provider with cloud init
- Opscode’s Omnibus project
Fletcher
- Mike’s #ChefConf talk
- The Passionate Programmer
- Alice in Chains latest album - The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here
Mike
Nathen
- Vacation!
- Flight Carrier Landing Practice
- Ship Show Podcast with Sandi Metz - Practical Object OO (and Cat!) Design with Sandi Metz!