These are the slides for the Ignite talk I gave at DevOps Days Paris 2013, on April 19th, 2013.

1. Managing complexity
Diego Zamboni
diego.zamboni@cfengine.com

2. “Give me a datacenter”
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7. Complexity
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8. Abstraction
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9. Perspective
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10. Perspective
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11. Perspective
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12. So what do
we need to
do this?

13. Express
desired
state

14. Datacenter(“asia”)
WebCluster(10)
DBCluster(15)
DNSCluster(5)
Apache(“php”)
SysConfig()
SSHConfig(“port=2222”)

15. Observe
actual
state

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17. Our tools are
not there yet

18. But we are
working on it

19. But we are
working on it
github.com/cfengine/design-center

20. Diego Zamboni <diego.zamboni@cfengine.com>
@zzamboni