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ServerTemplate Best Practices

Tim Miller, Sr. Director ServerTemplate Development

Cary Penniman, Sr. Software Engineer

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Agenda

• Best Practices

• Efficient Development Workflow

• Going to Production

• How to Control Changes

• Customizing

• Data Storage with the Storage Toolbox

• Q/A

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Quick Poll

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Best Practices

Our Picks

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Efficient Development Workflow

• Chef workflow using rsync

• rs_run_recipe –n cookbook::recipe

Run locally first

Avoid re-launch

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Going to Production

• Don’t run on HEAD!

• Package Repository Freeze Dates

• Cookbook Repositories

• External Dependencies

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Controlling Changes

• Pristine Production, Staging clone for development

• Follow standard branching and merging

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Customizing

• Zero change is ideal

• Isolate changes to custom scripts

• Start with Base ServerTemplate for Linux (v13.3)

• Monitoring, Alerts, Firewall, Logging, NTP, etc.

• Latest RightImages

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• Keep data in multiple locations!

• Local backups to volumes

• Remote backups to object storage

Data Storage

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Data Storage (cont.)

• Get to know the RightScale "Storage Toolbox”

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Leveraging the Storage Toolbox

1. Backup data to another

2. Restore data in case of outage

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For more information

• ServerTemplate Developer Guide (http://bit.ly/173Boca)

• Chef workflow using rsync (http://bit.ly/100lWHw)

• Prepare for Production (http://bit.ly/17oHz90)

• Base ServerTemplate (http://bit.ly/NZBNGp)

• Storage Toolbox ServerTemplate (http://bit.ly/15fMU5K)

https://github.com/rightscale/rightscale_cookbooks

april25-26

sanfrancisco

cloud success starts here

Questions?