Sessions at Open Source Bridge 2011 about Continuous Integration

Thursday 23rd June 2011

• Put THAT in Your Pipe and Deploy It!

  by David Brewer

  A deployment pipeline combines several development best practices, fully automated and taken to their logical extreme. The result is almost magical: changesets go in one end, and fully-tested software packages come out the other. We'll take a tour of the components of a deployment pipeline, with concrete examples showing how to use Hudson, Rake, and Puppet to deploy PHP projects.

  In this session, we will answer the following questions:
  * what is a deployment pipeline?
  * why do I need one?
  * how can I implement one using open source tools?

  We will begin with a quick overview of deployment pipelines and their powerful benefits. We will then look in more detail at the components of such a pipeline, and some of the excellent open source tools you can use to implement your own. Along the way we'll look at concrete examples of a specific deployment pipeline implemented at Second Story to deploy PHP-based web applications.

  The session's examples will involve these tools:
  * continuous integration using Hudson (or its recent fork, Jenkins)
  * configuration management using Puppet
  * build automation using Rake

  This is a high level session meant to introduce concepts and tools; it will be light on code examples or live demonstration of software.

  • Continuous Integration
  • Hudson
  • PHP
  • Puppet
  • Ruby

  At 1:30pm to 2:15pm, Thursday 23rd June

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