continuous delivery of microservices ken mugrage - @kmugrage

CONTINUOUS DELIVERY OF MICROSERVICES

Ken Mugrage - @kmugrage

AGENDA

Introduction

Definitions

Anti-Patterns

Cultural Considerations

Technical Considerations

Testing

Deployment Patterns2

AMBITIOUS MISSIONSNEED DISRUPTIVE THINKING

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DEFINITIONS

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MICROSERVICE

Small Autonomous servicesthat work together modeled around a business domain

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Independently Releasable

Newman, Sam (2015) Building Microservices O’Reilly

CONTINUOUS INTEGRATION

Continuous Integration is a software development practice where members of a team integrate their work frequently, usually each person integrates at least daily - leading to multiple integrations per day. Each integration is verified by an automated build (including test) to detect integration errors as quickly as possible.

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http://martinfowler.com/articles/continuousIntegration.html Originally published 10 September 2000

DEVOPS

DevOps (a clipped compound of "development" and "operations") is a culture, movement or practice that emphasizes the collaboration and communication of both software developers and other information-technology (IT) professionals while automating the process of software delivery and infrastructure changes.[1][2] It aims at establishing a culture and environment where building, testing, and releasing software, can happen rapidly, frequently, and more reliably.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DevOps

http://www.jedi.be/blog/2010/02/12/what-is-this-devops-thing-anyway/

CONTINUOUS DELIVERY

Continuous Delivery is a software development discipline where you build software in such a way that the software can be released to production at any time.

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Humble, Jez – Farley, David (2010) Continuous Delivery Addison Wesley

CONTINUOUS DELIVERY

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Delivery Team

CommitBuild and Unit Tests

Automated Acceptance

User Acceptance

Deploy

http://continuousdelivery.com/2010/02/continuous-delivery/

WHAT CD LOOKS LIKE

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CONTINUOUS DELIVERY

You’re doing Continuous Delivery when:

Your software is deployable throughout its lifecycle

Your team prioritizes keeping the software deployable over working on new features

Anybody can get fast, automated feedback on the production readiness of their systems and time somebody makes a change to them

You can perform push-button deployments of any version of the software to any environment on demand

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CONTINUOUS DELIVERY ANTI-PATTERNS

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THE REALLY COMPLICATED MONOLITH

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Newman, Sam (2015) Building Microservices O’Reilly

DEPLOYING EVERYTHING AT ONCE

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REQUIRING SPECIFIC VERSIONS

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Service 1

Service 2

Service 3

REQUIRING SPECIFIC VERSIONS

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Service 1

Service 2

Service 3

CULTURAL CONSIDERATIONS(Spoiler: This is the hardest part)

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CONWAY’S LAW

Any organization that designs a system (defined broadly) will produce a design whose structure is a copy of the organization's communication structure.

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http://www.melconway.com/Home/Conways_Law.html

DEVOPS

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TECHNICAL CONSIDERATIONS

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ARCHITECTURE

Loose coupling

A change to one service should not require a change to another

High cohesion

Related behavior sits together, unrelated behavior sits elsewhere

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INTEGRATION

Avoid breaking changes

Keep your APIs technology agnostic

Make your service simple for consumers

Hide internal implementation detail

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IF YOU REALLY NEED A BREAKING CHANGE

We really want to avoid forcing consumers to upgrade in lock step

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Newman, Sam (2015) Building Microservices O’Reilly

Getting integration right is the single most important aspect of the technology associated with microservices in my opinion.

Newman, Sam (2015-02-02). Building Microservices.

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CONTINUOUS INTEGRATION

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Newman, Sam (2015) Building Microservices O’Reilly

CONTINUOUS INTEGRATION

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Newman, Sam (2015) Building Microservices O’Reilly

BUILD CONSIDERATIONS

A thing gets built exactly once

One host / one service

Consider OS specific deployment packages

Consider building the entire host

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CONTINUOUS DELIVERY

Use fan in / fan out to build confidence

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CONTINUOUS DELIVERY – THE GOAL

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TESTING

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TESTING

If you’re doing a lot of manual testing, stop here and address that first

Unit tests

Service tests

A smarter stub service - http://www.mbtest.org/

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NONFUNCTIONAL TESTING

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CROSS FUNCTIONAL TESTING

Performance

Security

Individual services have individual expectations

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DEPLOYMENT PATTERNS

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BLUE / GREEN DEPLOYMENT

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http://martinfowler.com/bliki/BlueGreenDeployment.html

CANARY RELEASE

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FURTHER READING

SUMMARY

The ability to deploy independently is vital

The culture is the hardest part

One service / one host helps find issues

Purpose built tools help the journey

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