DIY 3/4 Day DIY Infrastructure Workshop - bring a laptop! (See Notes)

About this Presentation

Today’s open-source offerings allow teams to quickly and easily setup their own infrastructure for things like source management and builds. In this overview session, we'll survey some of these offering and see how to make them work to our advantage towards a Continuous Delivery model.

Participants should bring either a Windows or Mac laptop for working through the examples.

Notes:

We're looking forward to having you in the DIY Infrastructure workshop. To maximize the learning and value of our time together, we ask that you prepare your notebook that you're bringing to this hands on workshop.

1) Choose a Windows or Mac laptop that you'll be bringing to the workshop (we have some downloads and installs that are better to do before the event). Ensure you have admin or sudo privileges on the machine. Since we will be running a virtual machine on this system throughout the workshop, if you have a choice of laptops, please bring the one with a higher amount of memory and processor power.

2) Install VirtualBox on your system prior to the workshop. To simplify using all of the software that we'll be running in this session, we'll be making use of VirtualBox. You can install VirtualBox from www.virtualbox.org. (Note - the site currently seems to have an expired certificate which produces dire warnings in some browsers.) Take note of the directory where you install it. We'll need this information in the session.

3) Verify that you can start up ViritualBox and that it comes up successfully on your laptop. No more configuration is necessary.

In this 3/4 day workshop, we’ll learn how to utilize common free, open-source applications such as Cucumber, Aruba, Puppet, GIT, Jenkins, Sonar, Geb, and Spock to create a simple pipeline for managing and delivering a sample product. We will also discuss the principles of Continuous Delivery and model them as we setup our simple pipeline to do automatic builds, testing, and deployment of a sample web project - all running in a virtual machine on your laptop. We'll also talk about tooling to help automate database version management and look at scripting that can automatically extract and notify you of things like code quality metrics. Finally, we'll look at how to use some of the newest testing tools to make your testing easier.