Is distro-levelpackage management obsolete?

Donnie Berkholz@dberkholz

Key questions

● How are developers shipping apps?● Do they still care about distributions?● What do your current users want?● What do other users want?● What do distro maintainers want?● How have all of these changed over time?

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WTF is DevOps, anyhow?

“Infrastructure as code”

Chef to Debian:Please stoppackaging us

Distro stability vs rapid releases

APIs, SDKs, CI

Language-level PMs/repos

Developers choose

Sysadmins choose

The split at data stores

Containerization

“Package my damn code”

“I don't care about distros”

● git clone git+ssh://github.com/...

Package management in Windows?!

● NuGet● CoApp● Chocolatey

Rethinking the distro

What do we need?

● Transparent bundling● PM visibility/understanding of bundles● Use a real data store● Integrated configuration management

Worldview: code-centric vssystems-centric

Flickr: kalandrakas

Donnie Berkholzdberkholz@redmonk.comTwitter/IRC: dberkholz

Disclosures: AWS, Chef, Splunk, CloudBees (Jenkins), AnsibleWorks, and Basho are clients. GitHub, Puppet Labs, and Black Duck (Ohloh) have been clients.