Description
batou is a service deployment utility inspired by tools like Puppet, Fabric, and other modern tools. It made a short appearance in a lightning talk and at the sprints during EP 2012.
The talk gives an overview and demonstrates with practical examples how we deploy web applications with many complex components:
- modelling service components with Python
- multiple environments
- multiple platforms
- development environments
- convergent behaviour
- remote deployments
- secrets management (database passwords, SSL certificates, …)
- no additional run-time dependencies
I will show how the real-life requirements in our projects led us to develop a general model that integrates existing practices without building a huge stack of technologies.