Glu-ing the last Mile

How does your team handle release weekend? Is it the whole weekend? Is everyone on call? Is there a way to reverse the decision mid-stream?… How long would it take your company or team to push a single line code fix from dev into production? Way too many organizations handle the production release through manual and tedious labor following a lengthy to-do check list. Way too many organizations have no way to reproduce their production environment… because they have manually changed or updated configurations without version control… or they have OS or application server paths that are not under proper management.

What if you could “test” your production release before production? One of the answers to the last mile of continuous delivery is GLU. GLU is an open source project for deployment automation. It was created by one of the co-founders of LinkedIn (Yan Pujante) for automation of LinkedIn's deployment automation.

This session is a basic tutorial, walking through the configuration of a deployment out to multiple services. We will work through serial and parallel deployments, ensuring consistency and detecting problems. This session should be a sufficient introduction to walking through: 1) installation, 2) configuration, 3) multi-server deployments 4) manual updates and 5) automated updates