The Road to Hybrid Cloud is Paved with Automation

Michael DucyChef

@mfdii

• Linux Engineer• Operations• Performance and Capacity• Cloud Architect• Automation• Chef• MBA, MS

"L'enfer est plein de bonnes volontés et désirs" (hell is full of

good wishes and desires).-Saint Bernard of Clairvaux (1150

P2V Your Technical Debt For Fun and Profit

Why the technical debt?

Failure to capture configurations

Large cumbersome automation

Low perceived value of automation

Images are all I need

I’ll do it tomorrow

Enter Hybrid Cloud

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Problems

• VMs are heavy• C2Cing your technical debt• Large management overhead• Doesn’t really realize the benefits of Cloud

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Solutions

• Configs lighter than VMs• Reduces moving data already in your Clouds• Can leverage things like SCM• Define once, run anywhere

Problems

• Requires discipline• Doesn’t solve data issues• Requires upfront investment of time

Perspective

The question isn’t: how do I get a server, defined by VM (or instance)

into another Cloud to serve my application

The question is: how do I get a server, defined by a set of finite

configurations, into another Cloud to serve my application

"hell is full of good meanings, but heaven is full of good works"

”IT hell is full of good meanings, but Cloud is full of good works"

Some things I’ve seen work

• Ignore legacy• Focus on Cloud first• Get development buy-in to change app stack• Build Composable, Data Driven Automation

Infrastructure as Code

TDD of Infrastructure Code

Leverages the years of SDLC Experience

Repeatable and Reusable

Questions?

The Road to Hybrid Cloud is Paved with Automation

Michael DucyChef

@mfdii