DevOps in a Windows World

DevOpsGuys / Continuous Delivery London

Sept 2014

2Intro to me & DevOpsGuysSteve Thair, DevOpsGuys

• Infrastructure Architect and Operations Manager

• Run multi-million pound e-commerce platforms for Totaljobs, TES, RAC

• Founder of London Web Performance Meetup and part of Velocity Programme Committee 2012, 2013 & / 2014

Web Management. Simplified.

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3The Evolution of Application Hosting

Application Management ProviderCloud HostingManaged HostingCo-LocationOn-Premise

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4DevOps in a Windows World

No, it’s not Penguin’s all the way down…

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6IIS = 37% of all… 17% of top 10K

http://trends.builtwith.com/web-serverhttp://news.netcraft.com/archives/2014/08/27/august-2014-web-server-survey.html

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7Server Core + Powershell = ?

Windows Server Core “GUI”

Powershell ( & DSC)

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8Duck and Cover!

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9DevOps Application Delivery Pipeline

Plan Code Build Test Release Deploy Operat

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Powershell DSC

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10Integrate All the Things!

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11Jetbrain’s Teamcity Build Server

UK Consulting Partner

• Easier to install & maintain (IMHO)

• Extensive .Net plugins• Commercial support

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12Octopus Deploy

UK Consulting Partner &

Global Training Partner

• The defacto standard for .Net? • Simplicity (cf with MS tools…)• Great API in v2• Extensible via Powershell• Strong Security• Distributed Env friendly…• Plug-in integration with TC

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13Powershell DSC

• It works on Windows, unlike Chef…

• It works on Windows, unlike Puppet…

• It works on Windows, unlike Ansible…

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14Duck and Cover!

http://www.corbisimages.com/images/Corbis-IH081473.jpg

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15Powershell DSC

• It works on Windows, unlike Chef*…

• It works on Windows, unlike Puppet*…

• It works on Windows, unlike Ansible*…

• M$ supported (important to Procurement…)

• Extensible via Powershell• Will be leveraged by 3rd

party tools e.g. Chef

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“DSC represents a massive change in how Windows administrators think about their

entire environment. Provided every configuration setting can be boiled down to a DSC setting – which will be true over time – then “administration” will essentially

become “intelligent editing of text files.”“

Why DSC is the future?

Jones & Murawski “The DSC Book” https://onedrive.live.com/?cid=7F868AA697B937FE&id=7F868AA697B937FE%21110

“DSC represents a massive change in how Windows administrators think about their

entire environment. Provided every configuration setting can be boiled down to a DSC setting – which will be true over time – then “administration” will essentially

become “intelligent editing of text files.”“

AKA Unix

Admin

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17DSC scripts -> MOF -> config state

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18Power up with Powershell.org

Steve Murawski (formerly Stack Exchange, now Community Mgr @ Chef)

An Open-Source Community around Powershell & DSC!

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19DSC vs Chef (courtesy of Steve Mu)

http://stevenmurawski.com/powershell/2014/9/why-chef-revisited

Devopsguys are actively working to fill this gap!

(via Powershell.org)

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Thank You

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