Continuous delivery best
practices
with a Case Study of a technology-driven media company
Petri Kallberg
Cloud Architect, Nordcloud
Nordcloud: European Footprint. Market leader in the Nordics.
Established operations
Expansion ongoing
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Nordcloud
introduction
Nordcloud
Nordcloud is the cloud services
specialist based in Helsinki,
Stockholm, London, Munich, Oslo &
Copenhagen.
We are AWS Premier Consulting
partner proving cloud strategy
consultancy, migration services,
24x7 support, systems automation
and official AWS training.
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Continuous delivery best practices
with a Case Study of a technology-driven media company
“Continuous Delivery (CD) is a software engineering
approach in which teams keep producing valuable software
in short cycles and ensure that the software can be reliably
released at any time.”
- Wikipedia
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Continuous delivery best practices
with a Case Study of a technology-driven media company
Sanoma is a leading media group in the
Nordic countries with operations in over 10
European countries and yearly revenue of
2000M€.
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Continuous delivery best practices
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Starting point
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Multiple independent products & teams
Varying level of build automation
No configuration management tools
Traditional “in-house” hosting, DIY-mentality
Then IT was out-sourced …
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Continuous delivery best practices
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Build Automation is a must!
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Continuous delivery best practices
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Use SaaS vs. re-invent your own
if “vendor lock” becomes a problem solve it later
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Continuous delivery best practices
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Continuous delivery best practices
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Infrastructure as a Code
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Continuous delivery best practices
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What goes into Cloudformation stack?
(and what is left outside of it)
Statefull, Slow to deploy,
Shared resources …
Stateless, Fast to deploy,
Utilized inside single stack …
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Continuous delivery best practices
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Who/What does configure your instances?
(and how it knows about the infrastructure)
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Auto scaling & launch configuration
AMI vs. Install
Parameters from cloudformation stack
to Chef via instance metadata.
Cookbooks for common build formats.
Cfn-hup will trigger re-config for
changes.
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Don’t Update – Rebuild It!
Current production
V10
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Don’t Update – Rebuild It!
Testing new production
V10
V20
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Continuous delivery best practices
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Don’t Update – Rebuild It!
Deploy new production
V10
V20
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Continuous delivery best practices
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Don’t Update – Rebuild It!
Discard old production
V10
V20
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Continuous delivery best practices
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“Thanks to new deployment process we can
deploy builds into production in the middle
of the day and have to sweat if it is going to work”
- Lead developer of the busiest website in Finland
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“But rebuilds are taking too long!
We need to build every commit and deploy every build!”
- Anonymous developer
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Cloudformation
Production vs. Development & Testing
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Use same template for all
environments!
Customize with
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Parameters
Mappings
Conditions
Allow code deployment to development
using stack updates to avoid re-builds.
Enable/disable features by stack
update.
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“TODO” …
improvements and new features
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Individual teams should be self sufficient
while maintaining centralized “sanity checks”.
Create AWS account for each search/product.
Connect via central account using VPC peering.
Manage Cloudformation stacks with Service Catalog.
Replace custom code with AWS services;
CodeDeploy, CodeCommit & CodePipeline
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Thank You + Q&A
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CONTACT US
we'll get back to you as soon as possible
Leopoldstr. 23
5. OG
München,
Deutschland
[email protected]
/company/nordcloud-ltd
www.nordcloud.com
@NordcloudTweets
+49 152 31 92 06 51
www.nordcloud.com
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