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Casey West
August 19, 2016
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Abstractions – Pittsburgh – The Twelve-Factor Container + BONUS
My talk for Abstractions, with bonus material.
Casey West
August 19, 2016
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The Twelve-Factor Container 1 ! @caseywest #abstractions #containers #realworld #sorrynotsorry
A word about consent… Please do: Take pictures, tweet, take
notes. Please don't: Record or live stream without my explicit consent. 2 ! @caseywest #abstractions #containers #realworld #sorrynotsorry
The Twelve-Factor Container • Twitter @caseywest • Email
[email protected]
•
Web http://caseywest.com 3 ! @caseywest #abstractions #containers #realworld #sorrynotsorry
Thanks, Pivotal 4 ! @caseywest #abstractions #containers #realworld #sorrynotsorry
This isn't really a talk about containers 5 ! @caseywest
#abstractions #containers #realworld #sorrynotsorry
This is a talk about operational maturity 6 ! @caseywest
#abstractions #containers #realworld #sorrynotsorry
You must be this tall to ride this ride 7
! @caseywest #abstractions #containers #realworld #sorrynotsorry
Audience Participation • Containers? • Schedulers? • Cloud? 8 !
@caseywest #abstractions #containers #realworld #sorrynotsorry
Docker Docker Docker Docker Docker Docker Docker Docker 9 !
@caseywest #abstractions #containers #realworld #sorrynotsorry
The factors http://12factor.net 10 ! @caseywest #abstractions #containers #realworld #sorrynotsorry
1: One codebase tracked in revision control, many deploys 11
! @caseywest #abstractions #containers #realworld #sorrynotsorry
Anti-pattern Building separate images for staging and production 12 !
@caseywest #abstractions #containers #realworld #sorrynotsorry
Anti-pattern Tags for dev and prod 13 ! @caseywest #abstractions
#containers #realworld #sorrynotsorry
Best Practice Use the environment and/or feature flags 14 !
@caseywest #abstractions #containers #realworld #sorrynotsorry
2: Explicitly declare and isolate dependencies 15 ! @caseywest #abstractions
#containers #realworld #sorrynotsorry
2: Explicitly declare and isolate dependencies 16 ! @caseywest #abstractions
#containers #realworld #sorrynotsorry
Anti-pattern latest 17 ! @caseywest #abstractions #containers #realworld #sorrynotsorry
Best Practice Declare version numbers of upstream dependencies 18 !
@caseywest #abstractions #containers #realworld #sorrynotsorry
Best Practice Depend on base images for default filesystem and
runtimes 19 ! @caseywest #abstractions #containers #realworld #sorrynotsorry
3: Store config in the environment 20 ! @caseywest #abstractions
#containers #realworld #sorrynotsorry
Anti-pattern config.yml 21 ! @caseywest #abstractions #containers #realworld #sorrynotsorry
Anti-pattern properties.xml 22 ! @caseywest #abstractions #containers #realworld #sorrynotsorry
Anti-pattern Hard-coded feature flags 23 ! @caseywest #abstractions #containers #realworld
#sorrynotsorry
Best Practice This one is literally about environment variables 24
! @caseywest #abstractions #containers #realworld #sorrynotsorry
Best Practice This one is literally about environment variables !
‑ 25 ! @caseywest #abstractions #containers #realworld #sorrynotsorry
4: Treat backing services as attached resources 26 ! @caseywest
#abstractions #containers #realworld #sorrynotsorry
Anti-pattern Local disk 27 ! @caseywest #abstractions #containers #realworld #sorrynotsorry
Anti-pattern Local disk 28 ! @caseywest #abstractions #containers #realworld #sorrynotsorry
Anti-pattern Local disk 29 ! @caseywest #abstractions #containers #realworld #sorrynotsorry
Best Practice Connect to network- attached services using connection info
from the environment 30 ! @caseywest #abstractions #containers #realworld #sorrynotsorry
5: Strictly separate build and run stages 31 ! @caseywest
#abstractions #containers #realworld #sorrynotsorry
Anti-pattern Install on deploy 32 ! @caseywest #abstractions #containers #realworld
#sorrynotsorry
Best Practice Build immutable images then run those images 33
! @caseywest #abstractions #containers #realworld #sorrynotsorry
Painfully Obvious Best Practices 1. Eat when hungry 2. Sleep
when tired 3. Book Casey West for speaking gigs 34 ! @caseywest #abstractions #containers #realworld #sorrynotsorry
Best Practice Respect the lifecycle: buid, run, destroy 35 !
@caseywest #abstractions #containers #realworld #sorrynotsorry
6: Execute the app as one or more stateless processes
36 ! @caseywest #abstractions #containers #realworld #sorrynotsorry
Best Practice Schedule LRPs by distributing them across a cluster
of physical hardware 37 ! @caseywest #abstractions #containers #realworld #sorrynotsorry
Anti-pattern NFS 38 ! @caseywest #abstractions #containers #realworld #sorrynotsorry
Anti-pattern NFS Need I say more? 39 ! @caseywest #abstractions
#containers #realworld #sorrynotsorry
7: Export services via port binding 40 ! @caseywest #abstractions
#containers #realworld #sorrynotsorry
Best Practice port = Env.fetch(:PORT) 41 ! @caseywest #abstractions #containers
#realworld #sorrynotsorry
Best Practice my $port = $ENV{PORT}; 42 ! @caseywest #abstractions
#containers #realworld #sorrynotsorry
Best Practice private String getPort() { Map<String, String> env =
System.getenv(); return env.get("PORT"); } 43 ! @caseywest #abstractions #containers #realworld #sorrynotsorry
Best Practice let port = env::var("PORT").unwrap() 44 ! @caseywest #abstractions
#containers #realworld #sorrynotsorry
8: Scale out via the process model 45 ! @caseywest
#abstractions #containers #realworld #sorrynotsorry
Best Practice Horizontally scale by adding instances 46 ! @caseywest
#abstractions #containers #realworld #sorrynotsorry
9: Maximize robustness with fast startup and graceful shutdown 47
! @caseywest #abstractions #containers #realworld #sorrynotsorry
10: Keep development, staging, and production as similar as possible
48 ! @caseywest #abstractions #containers #realworld #sorrynotsorry
Best Practice Run containers in development 49 ! @caseywest #abstractions
#containers #realworld #sorrynotsorry
11: Treat logs as event streams 50 ! @caseywest #abstractions
#containers #realworld #sorrynotsorry
Anti-pattern Random log files #yolo'd all over the file system
51 ! @caseywest #abstractions #containers #realworld #sorrynotsorry
Best Practice STDOUT STDOUT STDOUT STDOUT 52 ! @caseywest #abstractions
#containers #realworld #sorrynotsorry
12: Run admin/ management tasks as one-off processes 53 !
@caseywest #abstractions #containers #realworld #sorrynotsorry
Anti-pattern Custom containers for tasks 54 ! @caseywest #abstractions #containers
#realworld #sorrynotsorry
Best Practice Reuse application images with specific entrypoints for tasks
55 ! @caseywest #abstractions #containers #realworld #sorrynotsorry
More factors? • API first • Secrets management • Health
metrics • Global distribution 56 ! @caseywest #abstractions #containers #realworld #sorrynotsorry
You are now cloud-native 57 ! @caseywest #abstractions #containers #realworld
#sorrynotsorry
Repeatability Reliability Resiliency 58 ! @caseywest #abstractions #containers #realworld #sorrynotsorry
Bonus Material 59 ! @caseywest #abstractions #containers #realworld #sorrynotsorry
The five stages of cloud- native 1. Denial 2. Anger
3. Bargaining 4. Depression 5. Acceptance 60 ! @caseywest #abstractions #containers #realworld #sorrynotsorry
Have a seat on the couch 61 ! @caseywest #abstractions
#containers #realworld #sorrynotsorry
Whatever makes you comfortable 62 ! @caseywest #abstractions #containers #realworld
#sorrynotsorry
Now for some basic ground rules 63 ! @caseywest #abstractions
#containers #realworld #sorrynotsorry
Rules We will talk about your delivery pipeline 64 !
@caseywest #abstractions #containers #realworld #sorrynotsorry
Rules We will talk about your architecture 65 ! @caseywest
#abstractions #containers #realworld #sorrynotsorry
Rules We will talk about your automation 66 ! @caseywest
#abstractions #containers #realworld #sorrynotsorry
⏰ 67 ! @caseywest #abstractions #containers #realworld #sorrynotsorry
"Deploying my apps to 'the cloud' is paintful. Why?" 68
! @caseywest #abstractions #containers #realworld #sorrynotsorry
Denial 69 ! @caseywest #abstractions #containers #realworld #sorrynotsorry
Denial Containers are just like tiny virtual machines 70 !
@caseywest #abstractions #containers #realworld #sorrynotsorry
Denial We don't need to automate continuous delivery 71 !
@caseywest #abstractions #containers #realworld #sorrynotsorry
Anger 72 ! @caseywest #abstractions #containers #realworld #sorrynotsorry
Anger Works on my machine 73 ! @caseywest #abstractions #containers
#realworld #sorrynotsorry
Anger Dev is just #YOLO-ing shit to production 74 !
@caseywest #abstractions #containers #realworld #sorrynotsorry
Bargaining 75 ! @caseywest #abstractions #containers #realworld #sorrynotsorry
Bargaining We crammed this monolith into a container and called
it a microservice 76 ! @caseywest #abstractions #containers #realworld #sorrynotsorry
Bargaining "Bi-Modal IT" 77 ! @caseywest #abstractions #containers #realworld #sorrynotsorry
Bargaining What if we create "microservices" that all talk to
the same data source? 78 ! @caseywest #abstractions #containers #realworld #sorrynotsorry
Depression 79 ! @caseywest #abstractions #containers #realworld #sorrynotsorry
Depression We made 200 microservices and forgot to set up
jenkins 80 ! @caseywest #abstractions #containers #realworld #sorrynotsorry
Depression We have an automated build pipeline but release twice
a year 81 ! @caseywest #abstractions #containers #realworld #sorrynotsorry
Acceptance 82 ! @caseywest #abstractions #containers #realworld #sorrynotsorry
Acceptance All software sucks 83 ! @caseywest #abstractions #containers #realworld
#sorrynotsorry
Acceptance Respect CAP Theorem 84 ! @caseywest #abstractions #containers #realworld
#sorrynotsorry
Acceptance Respect Conway's Law 85 ! @caseywest #abstractions #containers #realworld
#sorrynotsorry
Acceptance Small batch size works for replatforming, too 86 !
@caseywest #abstractions #containers #realworld #sorrynotsorry
Acceptance Automate everything 87 ! @caseywest #abstractions #containers #realworld #sorrynotsorry
⏰'s up 88 ! @caseywest #abstractions #containers #realworld #sorrynotsorry
What have we learned? 89 ! @caseywest #abstractions #containers #realworld
#sorrynotsorry
Operability is 1. Microservices Architecture 2. Devops Culture 3. Continuous
Delivery Pick Three 90 ! @caseywest #abstractions #containers #realworld #sorrynotsorry
@caseywest Let's be friends ! 91 ! @caseywest #abstractions #containers
#realworld #sorrynotsorry