10 Deployments a day - A brief on extreme release protocols

Abstract:

A reflection on how we migrated from an era of production deployments once a week to more than 10 deployments a day. The story of transforming a mere sys-admin to super sophisticated DevOps team, armed with multiple tools, scripts and plugins for achieving automations, accuracy and invincible agility. As we continue on our endeavor for further improvisation, I believe its worth sharing the experience with community. Tentative topics outline:

• Arming teams for their transformation to DevOps from mere sys-admins.

• Killing manual deployments (manual deployment->capistrano->webistrano)

• Automation

  • for daily backups
  • monitoring applications and servers
  • deploying dependencies

• Saving up time on setting up new instances(using golden image).

• Using LDAP to maintain servers with public key(avoiding individual logins to every server makes it less messy)

• Using Puppet for instantiating multiple servers at once.

• Commissioning our own Cloud Infrastructure.

Speaker: Vivek Parihar, Webonise Lab