AutomaCon 2015 - Not Everyone Is Kelsey Hightower

This is the story of how I learned to do infrastructure at Opsee. It's full of excellent fails and exciting victories... and lots of anecdotes about how Kelsey Hightower is amazing.

1. Not Everyone Can Be Kelsey Hightower Greg Poirier Factotum @ Opsee @grepory
2. Who am I?
3. What is Opsee?
4. What does the first engineer do, anyway? What even is a Factotum?
6. Proof of Concept
7. Mini mum Viabl e Prod uct
8. I needed infrastructure.
9. EFPR Loop
10. Experiment Fail Process Rebuild
11. Bloom’s Taxonomy of the Cognitive Domain
12. Knowledge Comprehension Analysis Application Synthesis Evaluation
13. Knowledge
15. Comprehension
16. Why do we need more than screen?
18. Application
20. Analysis
23. Green fielding sure is fun!
25. Let's rub some Kubernetes on it.
26. And this is when we come to Kelsey Hightower.
27. Who is Kelsey Hightower?
28. Why do we want to be Kelsey Hightower?
30. Why can’t we all just be Kelsey Hightower?
32. Kubernetes is really amazing—if you know what you’re doing.
33. CORROLLARY: If you don’t know what you’re doing, Kubernetes is overwhelming.
34. Synthesis
36. When considering what to do, optimize for maximum long-term gain.
37. Repeatable automated builds.
38. quay.io/opsee/build-go quay.io/opsee/build-clj
39. gliderlabs/alpine
41. Deploy by restarting.
42. fleetctl stop foo@{1..n}.service fleetctl start foo@{1..n}.service
43. docker run quay.io/ opsee/service:latest
44. docker run quay.io/ opsee/service:${TIER}
45. So it was totally easy, right?
46. Everything is difficult.
47. Ignorance begets frustration.
48. Enter etcd.
49. STORY TIME
50. This one time… at CoreOS camp…
51. Learn etcd the hard way.
53. Evaluation
54. This is not so bad.
58. “My biggest obstacle was understanding CoreOS and reconciling some faulty assumptions, but I kind of put that off until last week.”
60. Just say no to copy-and-paste infrastructure.
61. CoreOS is a Linux container hypervisor… not a minor deity.
62. CoreOS+Docker+Fleet = Tons of infrastructure code we didn't have to write.
63. We need a toolbox. quay.io/opsee/toolbox
64. That’s the story of how Opsee infrastructures and how I <3 Kelsey Hightower.
65. Thanks! @grepory - @opseeco opsee.com