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PowerShell – the newest configuration rockstar

PowerShell – the newest configuration rockstar. @stack72 scandev@paulstack.co.uk. About Me. Work for OpenTable.com Member of Jetbrains Academy “Friend of Redgate” Dzone MVB DevOps Extremist. AGENDA. Configuration Management as a concept Infrastructure as code

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PowerShell – the newest configuration rockstar

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  1. PowerShell – the newest configuration rockstar @stack72 scandev@paulstack.co.uk

  2. About Me • Work for OpenTable.com • Member of Jetbrains Academy • “Friend of Redgate” • Dzone MVB • DevOps Extremist

  3. AGENDA • Configuration Management as a concept • Infrastructure as code • Rich tooling nature for *nix platforms • PowerShell as the configuration tool • Puppet and PowerShell

  4. Continuous delivery • Continuous Integration • Configuration Management • Automated Testing

  5. Manual confiG changes • People are rubbish! • Cut corners • Make mistakes • Techniques differ from person to person • amount of work = Work hours * Number of operations staff

  6. Automated config changes • Machines are reliable in what they do! • amount of work = Number of machines * 24

  7. Terminology • What do I mean by infrastructure? • webserver • databases • load balancers • firewalls • Code • Anything that is written and executed to do a job

  8. Infrastructure as code • SysAdmin writes ssh loop in bash – EUREKA! • Other SysAdmins love it and add more “code” to it • No tests, code is brittle.

  9. Code is better!

  10. Powershell

  11. IDE Support • ISE • PowerGUI

  12. Tooling support available • Chocolatey • WebPI

  13. DEMO

  14. Puppet and PowerShell!

  15. DEMO

  16. Questions?

  17. summary • Infrastructure as Code is a much better way of interacting with our systems • Great tooling to help us do this • PowerShell is a windows automation framework that keeps getting better • Puppet and PowerShell work excellently together • Windows server management should no longer be tough

  18. Thanks! • scandev@paulstack.co.uk • www.paulstack.co.uk/blog • @stack72

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