2014/10/03, Kirkland, 10:00

Eric Helgeson

RPM Management - WARs, Jars

Many using embedded jetty/tomcat instead of deploying a container

How to use consul and chef with jboss cluster, etc

Using weblogic/jboss clustering having a seed node - could have zookeeper have locks

Orchestration primitives in chef?

Get rid of state-full apps.

jboss -

barista - Java chef-server

chef-client - jruby - iffify ?

Store cookbooks next to the application, parse out version so cookbooks and versions are equal.

ALM - Lifecycle management Collect metrics on everything, deploys, etc

one box testing with production

deep healthchecks, check routes, use serverspec/minitest/etc to checks in all env, even prod.

Java selfdiagnose/ dropwizard/ jmxtrans

load balancing - Chef Metal LB ELBs/HAProxy/Nginx with chef searches, etc.

Microservices gives a greater flexibility to deployments instead of monolithic apps.

Chef - Whole stack, Jira, git, etc.

Culture - Dave Farley - Co-auther of Continuous Delivery book, developed CD practices at high-speed trading firms. LMAX & Getco. Hard to get more regulated than that.

Version your APIs, and don't change the contract. Client code generated.

Vagrant boxes for developers to resolve issues.