Upgrade to Pro — share decks privately, control downloads, hide ads and more …

Configuration Management Anti-Patterns

Avatar for Sam Kottler Sam Kottler
June 20, 2013
Programming
2
1.1k

Configuration Management Anti-Patterns

Avatar for Sam Kottler

Sam Kottler

June 20, 2013
Tweet

More Decks by Sam Kottler

See All by Sam Kottler
This is your database on Linux
Avatar for Sam Kottler skottler
0
280
How to Debug Anything - DevOpsDay PGH
Avatar for Sam Kottler skottler
1
1.2k
Containerization primatives
Avatar for Sam Kottler skottler
0
150
Icinga at DigitalOcean
Avatar for Sam Kottler skottler
1
1k
PuppetConf '14
Avatar for Sam Kottler skottler
0
230

Other Decks in Programming

See All in Programming
プロフェッショナルとしての成長「問題の深掘り」が導く真のスキルアップ / issue-analysis-and-skill-up
Avatar for MinoDriven minodriven
8
1.9k
VitestのIn-Source Testingが便利
Avatar for taro taro28
8
2.4k
Bedrock × Confluenceで簡単(?)社内RAG
Avatar for iharuoru iharuoru
1
110
iOSアプリで測る！名古屋駅までの 方向と距離
Avatar for Ryu-nakayama ryunakayama
0
150
監視 やばい
Avatar for syossan27 syossan27
12
10k
Bedrock×MCPで社内ブログ執筆文化を育てたい！
Avatar for Har1101 har1101
7
1.4k
エンジニア向けCursor勉強会 @ SmartHR
Avatar for Yuki Horikoshi yukisnow1823
3
12k
KawaiiLT 登壇資料　キャリアとモチベーション
Avatar for 柊 hiiragi
0
160
音声プラットフォームのアーキテクチャ変遷から学ぶ、クラウドネイティブなバッチ処理 (20250422_CNDS2025_Batch_Architecture)
Avatar for Koki Senda thousanda
0
390
SwiftDataのカスタムデータストアを試してみた
Avatar for 1mash0 1mash0
0
140
Orleans + Sekiban + SignalR でリアルタイムWeb作ってみた
Avatar for Tomohisa Takaoka tomohisa
0
230
一緒に働きたくなるプログラマの思想 #QiitaConference
Avatar for mu_zaru mu_zaru
78
20k

Featured

See All Featured
CoffeeScript is Beautiful & I Never Want to Write Plain JavaScript Again
Avatar for Sam Stephenson sstephenson
160
15k
JavaScript: Past, Present, and Future - NDC Porto 2020
Avatar for David Neal reverentgeek
47
5.4k
How to Create Impact in a Changing Tech Landscape [PerfNow 2023]
Avatar for Tammy Everts tammyeverts
52
2.4k
Java REST API Framework Comparison - PWX 2021
Avatar for Matt Raible mraible
31
8.5k
Typedesign – Prime Four
Avatar for Hannes Fritz hannesfritz
41
2.6k
A designer walks into a library…
Avatar for Paul Jervis Heath pauljervisheath
205
24k
Large-scale JavaScript Application Architecture
Avatar for Addy Osmani addyosmani
512
110k
Speed Design
Avatar for Sergey Chernyshev sergeychernyshev
29
920
Become a Pro
Avatar for Speaker Deck speakerdeck
PRO
28
5.3k
The Cost Of JavaScript in 2023
Avatar for Addy Osmani addyosmani
49
7.8k
Creating an realtime collaboration tool: Agile Flush - .NET Oxford
Avatar for Marc Duiker marcduiker
30
2k
Intergalactic Javascript Robots from Outer Space
Avatar for Vicent Martí tanoku
271
27k

Transcript

  1. Configuration Management Anti-Patterns Sam Kottler @samkottler Thursday, June 20, 13

  2. Hi, I’m Sam Thursday, June 20, 13

  3. Hi, I’m Sam Thursday, June 20, 13

  4. Configuration management is great. Thursday, June 20, 13

  5. I don’t really care which system you’re using. This talk

    will feature Puppet & Chef Thursday, June 20, 13

  6. Predictability Thursday, June 20, 13

  7. Scalability Thursday, June 20, 13

  8. Auditing Thursday, June 20, 13

  9. Opinions lie within Thursday, June 20, 13

  10. Thursday, June 20, 13

  11. Build packages. Seriously, it’s worth it. Thursday, June 20, 13

  12. /usr/bin/fpm -s gem -t rpm -n freight -v $VERSION -C

    $TMP_DIR \ -d "dpkg" usr/local Thursday, June 20, 13

  13. A quick diversion... Thursday, June 20, 13

  14. rpmbuild -ba foo.spec mock foo-3.4.0-1.src.rpm Thursday, June 20, 13

  15. dh_make git-buildpackage debuild-pbuilder Thursday, June 20, 13

  16. Thursday, June 20, 13

  17. And put them into repos. Thursday, June 20, 13

  18. Use PPA’s or COPR’s. Thursday, June 20, 13

  19. This is actually really easy to automate. Thursday, June 20,

    13

  20. Koji is your friend. Thursday, June 20, 13

  21. I’m working on an OS agnostic solution. Talk to me

    after if you want to help. Thursday, June 20, 13

  22. Inline logic that includes parameters Thursday, June 20, 13

  23. Thursday, June 20, 13

  24. Thursday, June 20, 13

  25. Thursday, June 20, 13

  26. Thursday, June 20, 13

  27. Lack of parameterization Thursday, June 20, 13

  28. “Why would I ever want to change this?” Thursday, June

    20, 13

  29. Parameterized classes, hiera, and attributes Thursday, June 20, 13

  30. Thursday, June 20, 13

  31. Thursday, June 20, 13

  32. Thursday, June 20, 13

  33. Just look at the Opscode cookbooks And give Joshua Timberman

    a hug. Thursday, June 20, 13

  34. Storing plain-text secrets in your config management repos. Thursday, June

    20, 13

  35. Encrypted databags Thursday, June 20, 13

  36. hiera-gpg Thursday, June 20, 13

  37. Role decisions based on inventory values Thursday, June 20, 13

  38. Thursday, June 20, 13

  39. Thursday, June 20, 13

  40. Thursday, June 20, 13

  41. Thursday, June 20, 13

  42. Thursday, June 20, 13

  43. $ FACTER_physicalprocesscount=2 puppet agent -t $ chef-client -j “{ processors:

    2 }” Thursday, June 20, 13

  44. Don’t fear wrapper cookbooks or modules. Thursday, June 20, 13

  45. Thursday, June 20, 13

  46. Remember all those awesome abstractions? Thursday, June 20, 13

  47. Stop putting upstream modules and cookbooks into your repos. Thursday,

    June 20, 13

  48. librarian-chef berkshelf Thursday, June 20, 13

  49. Thursday, June 20, 13

  50. Thursday, June 20, 13

  51. librarian-puppet Thursday, June 20, 13

  52. Don’t deploy with your configuration management tool Thursday, June 20,

    13

  53. Thursday, June 20, 13

  54. Rollbacks? Revision management? Thursday, June 20, 13

  55. Consistency? Phased rollouts? Thursday, June 20, 13

  56. Thursday, June 20, 13

  57. It’s a bug if you can’t run end-to-end provisioning in

    a single run. Thursday, June 20, 13

  58. Use a build system to run each type of machine

    in an isolated environment LXC or schroot are great for doing this Thursday, June 20, 13

  59. Deploy your configuration management tools just like production Thursday, June

    20, 13

  60. Questions? @samkottler [email protected] https://github.com/skottler Thursday, June 20, 13