Drupal and Devops , the Survey Results
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Devops and Drupal focuses on the current state of devops practices among Drupal developers and system administrators. A survey of over 200 Drupal professionals found that while many are aware of devops concepts like continuous integration and deployment, few have fully implemented best practices for areas like automated testing, configuration management, and disaster recovery. Adopting a devops approach can help Drupal teams improve collaboration, deploy more frequently, and better manage systems over time.
Drupal and Devops , the Survey Results
- 1. Devops and Drupal Current State Kris Buytaert, march 2012
- 2. Kris Buytaert • I used to be a Dev, • Then Became an Op • Chief Trolling Officer and Open Source Consultant @inuits.eu • Everything is an effing DNS Problem • Building Clouds since before the bookstore • Some books, some papers, some blogs • But mostly, trying to be good at my job
- 3. Devop, definition ● 30 something ● Senior Infrastructure guy ● Development background ● Open Source Expcerience ● Mostly European (.be / .uk) ● Likes Belgian Beer ● Likes Sushi
- 4. What's this Devops thing really about ?
- 5. World , 200X-2009 Patrick Debois, Gildas Le Nadan, Andrew Clay Shafer, Kris Buytaert, Jezz Humble, Lindsay Holmwood, John Willis, Chris Read, Julian Simpson, and lots of others .. Gent , October 2009 Mountain View , June 2010 Hamburg , October 2010 Boston, March 2011 Mountain View, June 2011 Bangalore, Melbourne, Goteborg , October 2011
- 6. ● Devops is a growing movement ● We don't have all the answers yet ● We are reaching out to different communities ● We will point out problems we see.. ● Only the name is new While we are still working out the solutions
- 7. What's the problem ? The community of developers whose work you see on the Web, who probably don’t know what ADO or UML or JPA even stand for, deploy better systems at less cost in less time at lower risk than we see in the Enterprise. This is true even when you factor in the greater flexibility and velocity of startups. Tim Bray , on his blog January 2010
- 8. The real problem : ● Friday evening at 16:59 “Put this Code Live, here's a tarball” NOW! ● Backups ? ● What database ? ● Security ? ● High Availability ? ● Scalability ? ● Who is on Call ?
- 9. “devops is a cultural and professional movement” Adam Jacob
- 10. CAMS ● Culture ● Automation ● Measurement ● Sharing Damon Edwards and John Willis
- 11. Why a survey ? • Gut feeling vs Reality • The sad state of our customers practices • Java folks GET the Problem ! • Twittersphere says it doesn't matter for PHP • Lies , Damn Lies and Statistics
- 12. Audience ● 200+ ● Schizophrenic ● Experienced (6y average) ● Webdeveloping ● System Administrators
- 13. Organisation Type ● In small to midsized companies ● Good internal Communication ● Vs Large Enterprises with Silos ..
- 14. What's devops to them ? • A buzzword • Developers who also do IT operations, or visa versa. • The people in charge of the build/release cycle and planning. • system administrators with a development culture. • Someone who mixes both a sysop and dev duties • the combination of developer and operations into one overall functionality
- 15. What's devops to them ? # NG • A buzzword • Developers who also do IT operations, or visa versa. • • RO The people in charge of the build/release cycle and planning. system administrators with a development culture. • Someone who mixes both a sysop and dev duties W • the combination of developer and operations into one overall functionality
- 16. What's devops to them ? • Breaking the wall between dev and ops in the same way agile breaks the wall between business and dev e.g. coming to terms with changing requirements, iterative cycles • Sysadmin best-practise, using configuration as code, and facilitating communication between sysadmins and developers, with each understanding and participating in the activities of the other. • Devops is both the process of developers and system operators working closer together, as well as people who know (or who have worked in) both development and system operations. • Removing barriers to communication and efficiency through shared vocabulary, ideals, and business objectives to to deliver value. • A set of principles and good practices to improve the interactions between Operations and Development.
- 17. Practice devops ? ● Lack of Clear Definition ● 33% does ● 24% wants ● 22% is in trouble
- 18. Know Continuous Delivery ?
- 19. Nirvana An “ecosystem” that supports continuous delivery, from infrastructure, data and configuration management to business. Through automation of the build, deployment, and testing process, and improved collaboration between developers, testers, and operations, delivery teams can get changes released in a matter of hours — sometimes even minutes–no matter what the size of a project or the complexity of its code base. Continuous Delivery , Jez Humble
- 20. Site up to date ? ● 70% reads Drupal Security News . ● Sysadmins Update ● Other = Developers •Really ? ● Not all components however :(
- 22. Typical Enviroments For Devs For Ops ● Scrum ● Kanban ● Version Control ● Version Control ● Automated Build ● Automated Build ● Bugtracking ● Bugtracking ● Continous integration ● Continous integration ● Integrated testing ● Integrated testing ● Automated ● Automated deployment deployment
- 23. What about the Drupalistas ?
- 24. Version Control
- 26. Testing ● No frameworks used vs ● No exploratory Testing
- 28. Where do you develop ? ● It works on my machine :( ● What other platforms do you use :
- 29. Looking for ? “As a system administrator, I can tell when software vendors hate me. It shows in their products.” “DON'T make the administrative interface a GUI. System administrators need a command-line tool for constructing repeatable processes. Procedures are best documented by providing commands that we can copy and paste from the procedure document to the command line. We cannot achieve the same repeatability when the instructions are: "Checkmark the 3rd and 5th options, but not the 2nd option, then click OK." Sysadmins do not want a GUI that requires 25 clicks for each new user.” Thomas A. Limoncelli in ACM Queue December 2010 http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1921361
- 30. Deployment ● Database Imports are EVIL ● Manual Installations are ● Error Prone How do you deploy ? ● Non Reproducible ● 61% does it WRONG Do you Test Deployments ?
- 31. Deployment Alternatives ● Aegir (security ?) ● Fabric ● Svn git checkouts (connectivity ?) How do you deploy ? ● Capistrano ● Custom Tools
- 32. Deploying a Drupal Site ● Drush make ● Installation Profiles ● Features ,strongarm , Custom code ● Configuration as Code ● What with external apps and libraries? ● Solr – BI software ● Test before you drive! (CI)
- 33. How do you configure modules ? ● Not reproducable ● Not automated ● 50% can improve :) ● D8 Configuration Mgmt Efforts !
- 34. Can you fully reproduce the last site you've build from code ?
- 35. Challenges ● What about the data ? ● Content vs Config ● Drupal provides no clear distinction (yet) ● e.g a billing application ● Table Creation ● Provisioning (e.g. Rates, Call plan types) ● Actual Data
- 36. Content Editing ● Non technical people ● In production ● Plenty of UGC Who edits content ● Frequent Updated Sites ● Upgrade troubles ahead Where do you edit content ?
- 37. Upgrading a site ● Drush ● pm-updatecode ● Updatedb ● Features-update ● Once again, test before you drive! ● But ... what about userdata ?
- 38. Scalability
- 39. Proxy ?
- 40. WebServer ?
- 41. Caching / Scale / Deployment ● MySQL ● NoSQL ● MemCache
- 43. 12 days into operations
- 44. The future ● Don't forget ● Lies, Damn Lies and Statistics ● These people CARED to fill in the survey •D8 Configuration management initiative •DrupalCon Munich infrastructure/devops track !
- 45. Conclusions ● Drupal gets is and is supportive ● Conversation happens ● Long Journey ahead ● Heading in the right direction
- 46. It's not about the tools It's about change It's about the people
- 47. Contact Kris Buytaert Kris.Buytaert@inuits.eu Further Reading @krisbuytaert http://krisbuytaert.be/blog/ http://www.inuits.eu/ Inuits Duboistraat 50 2060 Antwerpen Belgium 891.514.231 +32 475 961221
- 48. Deploy Where ?
- 49. Search