Slides from my talk, Automating Government, at Scotch on the Rocks, 6th June 2014.

1. Automating
Government

2. What we built
How
Hard problems

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Anna Shipman
Senior Developer
Infrastructure Team
GOV.UK

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Government Digital Service
https://www.flickr.com/photos/71256895@N00/5378893900/

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7. What we built

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vCloud Tools

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Other teams within
government using vCloud
Tools

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12. How

13. Technically how

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vCloud Director

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http://www.vmwarearena.com/2013/08/vcloud-director-series-part-7-basic.html

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vCloud API

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29. Practices that helped this
project

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Open
Agile
Multi-disciplinary teams

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GDS development practices
Git, GitHub
Code review in PRs
Unit testing
Integration testing
CI – Jenkins

32. Architecture

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Git filter-branch

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Contributing to fog

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39. Coding in the open

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41. Early users

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fog credentials

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44. Hard problems

45. Conflicting requirements
from early users

46. Upgrades

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48. Hardest thing for me

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Developers or Web Ops
could not have done it
alone

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Agile
Multi-disciplinary teams

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http://blog.zenoss.com/2012/04/1st-rule-of-devops-you-do-not-talk-about-devops/

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Useful links
vCloud Tools https://github.com/alphagov/vcloud-tools
Building tools to provision our machines
https://gdstechnology.blog.gov.uk/2014/05/07/building-tools-to-provision-our-machines/
How we used vCloud Tools to provision a new platform
https://gdstechnology.blog.gov.uk/2014/05/21/using-vcloud-tools-to-provision-a-new-platform/
fog http://fog.io/
vCloud API documentation
http://pubs.vmware.com/vcd-51/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.vmware.vcloud.api.doc_51%2FGUID-F4BF9D5D-
EF66-4D36-A6EB-2086703F6E37.html
Coding in the open https://gds.blog.gov.uk/2012/10/12/coding-in-the-open/
Using Git to refactor vCloud Tools into separate gems
https://gdstechnology.blog.gov.uk/2014/06/04/using-git-to-refactor-vcloud-tools-into-separate-gems/