DevOps Tool chain

A list of utilities to support configuration management tools. This was produced by the panelists of the Configuration Mgmt Workflow panel at LOPSA-EAST in 2013. One of the attendees also took notes: http://verticalsysadmin.com/blog/uncategorized/highlights-from-lopsa-east-2013-configuration-management-workflows-panel

Individual level: IDE / syntax highlighting etc

Puppet:

• vim – https://github.com/rodjek/vim-puppet
• TextMate & sublime text 2 – https://github.com/masterzen/puppet-textmate-bundle
• gepetto (http://cloudsmith.github.io/geppetto/),
• emacs

Chef:

• vim,
• TextMate,
• Sublime Text: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VtDj_ar1Xg (video), https://github.com/cabeca/SublimeChef (GitHub)
• Emacs: chef-mode https://github.com/mpasternacki/chef-mode

CFEngine:

• vim – https://github.com/neilhwatson/vim_cf3
• emacs – https://github.com/cfengine/core/blob/master/contrib/cfengine.el
• kate – https://github.com/cfengine/core/blob/master/contrib/katepart-cfengine.highlight.xml
• eclipse – https://cfengine.com/eclipse-cfengine-editor
• Sublime Text – https://github.com/kebori/sublime-cfengine3

Local Testing

• Vagrant –
• VMware
• OpenStack
• Cloud?
• All of the above?

Revision Control : Which tool? Which workflow?

• Github Flow – http://scottchacon.com/2011/08/31/github-flow.html
• git-flow – http://nvie.com/posts/a-successful-git-branching-model/
• Git Dynamic Environments –
• • https://puppetlabs.com/blog/git-workflow-and-puppet-environments/ ,
• • https://github.com/adrienthebo/puppet-git-hooks

Commit hooks

Puppet:

• erb,
• pp parser,
• yaml, https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppetlabs-training-bootstrap/blob/master/modules/fundamentals/files/pre-commit

Chef:

• fc pre-commit: https://github.com/gregf/chef-git-hooks

CFEngine:

• Subversion: http://worrbase.com/2012/07/11/cfengine-svn-pre-commit.html
• Git: https://github.com/cfengine/design-center/tree/master/tools/git-pre-commit

Style / Lint tools

Puppet:

• puppet-lint – http://puppet-lint.com/,
• puppet-cleaner – https://github.com/santana/puppet-cleaner,

Chef:

• tailor,
• foodcritic

CFEngine:

• cf-promises (with GCC-style warnings)

Testing manifests / recipes

Puppet:

• rspec-puppet,
• ?cucumber-puppet (discontiued)?

Chef:

• chefspec,
• minitest-handler,
• rspec-chef,
• cucumber-chef,
• test-kitchen

Marshalling / Assembling Code & Dependencies

Puppet:

• librarian-puppet – https://github.com/rodjek/librarian-puppet

Chef:

• berkshelf,
• librarian

CFEngine:

• cf-sketch – https://github.com/cfengine/design-center/wiki/Design-Center-Tools

Continuous Integration

• Jenkins CI
• Travis CI
• Atlassian Bamboo?
• TeamCity?

Orchestration

Puppet:

• MCollective

Chef :

• has “knife ssh” and Pushy support coming for push jobs

Canary testing & Prod vs QA vs test environments (not prod vs QA app code)

Puppet

• serverspec http://serverspec.org/
• rspec-system https://github.com/puppetlabs/rspec-system
• nagios checks/ plugins

Chef

• has knife-flip from Etsy, flips nodes into a test environment

CFEngine:

• Remote context class matching using remoteclassesmatching (Enterprise)

Provisioning VM’s in the cloud?

Chef:

• knife ec2 server create…
• spiceweasel somefile.yml
• knife openstack…
• knife server create…

Clouds include Azure, Openstack, Rackspace, etc. EC2 OpsWorks (although some limitations since it’s an older version)

Puppet:

• puppet node_aws create / puppet node_vmware create
• Puppet RAL for AWS, OpenStack, CloudStack: ec2_instance { “instance_name”: type => t1.large, az => ‘USWest’, ensure => present, …. }
• Razor (bare metal)

CFEngine:

• https://github.com/cfengine/design-center/tree/master/sketches/cloud

Chef

• Crowbar has Chef server integrated, although I don’t know that much about it.
• Joyent also has a Chef “dataset” that they support.

Team Workflow

Puppet: –?

Chef:

• knife-spork (has handlers to notify people)