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yapc-na-2012 - ddd

Sat Dec 22 00:30:00 2012

Slides for the talk ddd at yapc-na-2012

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Distributed
Daemon
Discovery

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So.

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First, some
gratitude

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I'm here on
behalf of
shadow.cat

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This talk is
on behalf of
socialflow.com

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Also, Robert
Sedlacek
(phaylon)
did loads of
the work

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Thanks to all
of you for
putting up
with me.

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Anyway ...

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Distributed
Daemon
Discovery

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What?

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The
problem

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Insufficiently
automated
infrastructure

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Startup clients
are so much fun

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They get
embarrassed

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... that their
code is making
money

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Shipping is
feature zero

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Insufficiently
automated
infrastructure

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First
step

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Building a
big picture

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Usual
approach

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Log in to
server

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Look around
server

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Document
server

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Eventually ...

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Try and unify
documentation

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Ok but

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Humans
are
fallible

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That's the
problem we're
trying to
solve here!

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Manual solution
to a 
manual problem

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CHEWBACCA!

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Well what
else do
we do?

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Write code
to find it
out for us!

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Wait ...

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How do we get
it onto the
remote machines?

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Fully
automated
deployment!

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... but we
don't have
that yet

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*scrabbles
for plan B*

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Object::Remote

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  Object::Remote->connect('host');

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  My::Class->new::on($conn);

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ships the
class over
the wire

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installation
not required

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(see my
lightning
talk for
details)

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So we can
run code

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What do we
do with the
output?

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Database?

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I love
postgresql

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But I'm going
to be adding
new things all
the time

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MongoDB?

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Trying to
minimise
configuration

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internet
writeable
by default

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goatse
by default

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And anyway ...

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I want to
grep stuff

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Hmm.

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I want to
diff stuff
too ...

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git!

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JSON
in git!

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Trailing
commas

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JSON->relaxed

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JSON::Diffable

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snapshot
trees

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easy
peasy!

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Interrogate
system

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Snapshot
to git

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Web::Simple
browser

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I shall
show all

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But first ...

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sudo

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flipping
sudo!

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password
prompts

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sudo -S

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read stderr

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Object::Remote
to send prompt
back to master

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check for
correct output

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WAIT

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no output
when no
prompt

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  perl -e 'print STDERR "GO!\n"'
       -e 'exec @ARGV'

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mostly
works

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"unexpected
line from
sudo"

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go and
check ...

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"We trust you have
received the usual
lecture from your
systems administrator"

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FLIPPING
SUDO

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Anyway ...

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Time to
show you
some code

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(wow JT
but this
wireless
is good)

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Thank You
IRC:mst
mst@shadowcat.co.uk
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