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Six Feet Up |
Running Plone on AWS |
Calvin Hendryx-Parker, CTO, Six Feet Up |
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Plone Conf 2020 |
2020 |
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https://github.com/calvinhp/2020_PloneConf_RunningPloneonAWS
Beautiful Unique Snowflakes are not reproducible. {.semi-filtered data-background-image="https://c2.staticflickr.com/4/3802/12006571534_7a81e7656e_o.jpg"}
::: notes tidbit of trivia, the chances of a snowflake being exactly alike is 1 in 1 million trillion (that's a 1 followed by 18 zeros) :::
Pets {.semi-filtered data-background-image="https://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5233/5828169497_dff82c6543_o.jpg"}
::: notes coined by Randy Bias after hearing a talk from Bill Baker on Scaling SQL Server :::
Cattle {.semi-filtered data-background-image="https://c1.staticflickr.com/9/8131/8714106252_4e66254faa_o.jpg"}
::: notes We are now in the world of DevOps and many non-cloud native applications have the ability to be deployed with cloud native tools. How do we take a beautiful handcrafted bare-metal server running our application to translate that into the cloud? :::
From the Closet to the Cloud {.semi-filtered data-background-image="https://c2.staticflickr.com/8/7063/13991487412_7d4a652f38_o.jpg"}
::: notes College of Engineering at Notre Dame has been hosting their main web site on a single server in a closet on campus since we deployed it for them back in 2011.
In 2016 the university mandated a move to AWS campus wide.
Perfect opportunity to take this aging single server hosting their site and improve their performance and resilience to potential failure. :::
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::: notes What fails here?
- Dependencies
- OS Patches
- SSL upgrades :::
Cloud Optimized {.semi-filtered data-background-image="https://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5484/11423341454_b51b661bc5_k.jpg"}
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::: notes But how do we make it repeatable. Automation Terraform and Saltstack :::
Network Complexity {.semi-filtered data-background-image="https://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5484/11423341454_b51b661bc5_k.jpg"}
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::: notes Are we better off? :::
Bit of a Chicken and Egg Problem {.semi-filtered data-background-image="https://c2.staticflickr.com/8/7508/16136177877_b59f6a4585_k.jpg"}
::: notes
How do we get a fresh Salt master into a region to start building the rest of the infrastructure.
SaltStack has support for various cloud providers, but the easiest was to just use Python and Boto3 to bootstrap the process.
A few lines of Python and you have a VPC ready to be your command and control in any region.
:::
$ salt-run state.orchestrate orch.deploy-environment pillarenv=prodAnd build a test environment
$ salt-run state.orchestrate orch.deploy-environment pillarenv=testSounds too easy {.semi-filtered data-background-image="https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/229/498818720_73a25bdf70_o.jpg"}
The road was bumpy for sure.
Satisfying the rules for no special cases was tricky.
Mindfulness {.semi-filtered data-background-image="https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4397/36076284124_134a37e792_o.jpg"}
There should be one, and preferably only one, obvious way to do it. Although that way may not be obvious at first unless you're Dutch. -- The Zen of Python
The journey of 3 operating systems {.semi-filtered data-background-image="https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4902/30826204837_7d745d224f_k.jpg"}
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2a67758 Editing requirements to run properly on amazon linux -
472d844 Refactoring to run CentOS 7 machines -
dd67b7a Refactoring for FreeBSD
What happened here?
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::: notes
Or you could flesh out the Copilot CLI bits to enable more junior devs
:::
- Passing Environment Variables
- Local Dev of Theme and Apps
- Build and Deploy of Custom Bits
Thanks! {.semi-filtered data-background-image="https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/92/239595034_d51a99ced1_o.jpg"}
https://github.com/calvinhp/2020_PloneConf_RunningPloneonAWS