Advanced Topics in Continuous Deployment

Advanced Topics in
Continuous Deployment
Mike Brittain
Engineering Director, Etsy
@mikebrittain mikebrittain.com/talks

- Config flags - this one goes to eleven.
Today’s TOPICs
credit: photobookgirl (flickr)

- Automated deploys - never settle for anything less
Today’s TOPICs

- Release management - who needs it?!?
Today’s TOPICs

- Deploying schema changes - ‘cause everybody asks
Today’s TOPICs

20 Million Items listed
60+ Million Monthly unique visitors
200 Countries with annual transactions
!
175+ Committers, everyone deploys
Items by anjaysdesigns, betwixxt, OneStarLeatherGoods, mediumcontrol, TheDesignPallet

Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP
ArchitectureStack
Memcache, Gearman, Redis, node.js,
Postgresql, Solr, Java, Apache Traﬃc Server,
Hadoop, HBase
credit: Saire Elizabeth (ﬂickr)
Git, Jenkins
Chef, Ruby, Python

@mikebrittain
DEPLOYMENTSPERDAY
APPCODE
CONFIGFILES

1st Day Assignment
Put your face on etsy.com/about

2nd day
Complete tax, insurance, and
beneﬁts forms.
credit: ktpupp (ﬂickr)

I’m not telling you to go do this.
(But you can go do this.)

Today’s TOPICs

Code Deploy ≠ Feature Release
(Most deploys are gated by config flags)

$cfg[‘new_search’] = array('enabled' => 'off');
$cfg[‘sign_in’] = array('enabled' => 'on');
$cfg[‘checkout’] = array('enabled' => 'on');
$cfg[‘homepage’] = array('enabled' => 'on');

!

!
// Meanwhile...
!
!
!
!
!
# old and boring search
$results = do_grep();

!
// Meanwhile...
!
if ($cfg[‘new_search’] == ‘on’) {
# New and fancy search
$results = do_solr();
} else {
# old and boring search
$results = do_grep();
}

$cfg[‘new_search’] = array('enabled' => 'on');
“Config Flags,” “Feature Flags,” “Feature Toggles”

!
// or...
!
$cfg[‘new_search’] = array('enabled' => 'staff');
!

!
// or...
!
!
// or...
!
$cfg[‘new_search’] = array('enabled' => 'users',
'user_list' => 'mike,john,kellan');
etsy.com/prototypes

!
// or...
!
!
// or...
!
// or...
!
$cfg[‘new_search’] = array('enabled' => '1%');
!

!
// or...
!
!
// or...
!
// or...
!
!

!
// or...
!
!
// or...
!
// or...
!
“This one goes to eleven.”

!
// or...
!
!
// or...
!
// or...
!
https://github.com/etsy/feature

Validate in production, hidden from public.
Product managers still “release” features.

Small incremental changes to the application
New classes, methods, controllers
Graphics, stylesheets, templates
Copy/content changes
App deploys
Turning flags on, off, or % ramp up
Config deploys

http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/ﬂyforfun/2694158656/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/flyforfun/2694158656/
Operator
Config flags
Metrics

Latent bugs and security holes
Traffic management, load shedding
Adding and removing infrastructure
!
Tweaking config flags or releasing patches.
“Operating” the site

Promote “dev flags” to “feature flags”

// Feature flag
$cfg[‘mobilized_pages’] = array('enabled' => 'on');
!
// Dev flags
$cfg[‘mobile_templates_seller_tools’] = array('enabled' => 'on');
$cfg[‘mobile_templates_account_tools’] = array('enabled' => 'on');
$cfg[‘mobile_templates_member_profile’] = array('enabled' => 'on');
$cfg[‘mobile_templates_search’] = array('enabled' => 'off');
$cfg[‘mobile_templates_activity_feed’] = array('enabled' => 'off');
!
...
!
if ($cfg[‘mobilized_pages’] == ‘on’ && $cfg[‘mobile_templates_search’] == ‘on’) {
// ...
// ...
}

// Feature flags
$cfg[‘search’] = array('enabled' => 'on');
$cfg[‘developer_api’] = array('enabled' => 'on');
$cfg[‘seller_tools’] = array('enabled' => 'on');
!
$cfg[‘the_entire_web_site’] = array('enabled' => 'on');

// Feature flags
$cfg[‘search’] = array('enabled' => 'on');
$cfg[‘developer_api’] = array('enabled' => 'on');
$cfg[‘seller_tools’] = array('enabled' => 'on');
!
$cfg[‘the_entire_web_site’] = array('enabled' => 'on');
$cfg[‘the_entire_web_site_no_really_i_mean_it’] = array('enabled' => 'on');

Go add one config flag to your codebase.

Today’s TOPICs

Interpreted language, text files.
Opcode cache (Opcache or APC)
~100 servers (web, gearman, api)
Rsync (push, not pull)
Avoid restarts
PHP & Apache

Lots of remote orchestration (ssh and dsh)
Push code from a git clone to production network.
Splay to a few boxes, each splays to more.
Stage files in a temp location on prod boxes.
Local rsync (using dsh) into live docroot.
Keeping things fast

100+ files opened per request.
Flushing opcode cache (or graceful restart).
Mostly harmless.
What can go wrong with this?

Two document roots (“yin” and “yang”)
Symbolic link to the right one
Opcache has to use path name, not inode
Atomic deploys
http://codeascraft.com/2013/07/01/atomic-deploys-at-etsy/

Binaries, not text files
Requires restarts
Requires search index and cache warming
Rsync (push, not pull)
Solr and JVM

Take boxes out of rotation, deploy, bring back up
Beware capacity management
Multiple versions running for extended period
Rollbacks are a pain (esp. when in mixed-state)
Rolling restarts

One live cluster, one dark cluster
Deploy to dark cluster (indexes, pre-warm, restarts)
Define search clusters in app config
Switch cluster traffic via config deploy
“Flip” and “Flop”

Start with a shell script.
Yours will be a unique snowflake.

Today’s TOPICs

We have a one-button deploy tool,
We manage deploys in an IRC channel.

Thank you.
Mike Brittain
Engineering Director, Etsy
@mikebrittain mikebrittain.com/talks

We have a one-button deploy tool,
We manage deploys in an IRC channel.
I mean, seriously… what else do you want to know?!?

Keep real people in the loop
Queue, with max batch size of seven.
Automated deployment run by humans

Pssst… Want to see how it works?

4 people in this
deploy.
“I’ve pushed my changes to master.”
“Everyone has checked in.”

Build QA and
Pre-prod
Build
progress
Status in #push
Git SHA1 in for each env.
Date, username, deploy log, changeset, link to
dashboard from time of deploy

Reporting what’s going on in
Deployinator, and who triggered
Status from
build cluster

Pre-prod (“princess”) has been deployed.
!
SHA1 of the change
Time it took to deploy
Link to changeset in GitHub
Log of the deploy script

Btw, there are three bots talking in
channel at this point. O_o

Queuing for next deploy
Humans talk to
other humans
from time to time.

Talking to pushbot.
!
Pushbot knows some Spanish…
because, ya know, why not?

Link to test results for CI environment,
along with how long the tests took.Alerting by name.

8 minutes have elapsed…
We’ve built and tested our release in the
CI environment (“QA”).
!
QA build failed our 5 min. SLA for tests.

“Try” is our pre-commit testing cluster.

Bots help reinforce our values. This
is especially helpful for new people
on the team.

Still 8 minutes elapsed…
Pre-prod has been deployed and tested.
!
This ran in parallel with our QA build and tests.

Cross-traffic:
In a separate channel (#config), our app configs
files were deployed to pre-prod.

Cross-traffic:
Ops team deployed a configuration change.

Code is live
Link to dashboard.

13 minutes elapsed…
Code is now in production with public traffic.

Who committed code in the last deploy? And
how many lines did each of them change?

Entire app deploy took 15 minutes.
!
4 people running the deployment
8 committers
Config deploy and Chef change deployed in parallel.

Optimal queue size
Normalized communication
Improved visibility
Historical record is ideal for post-mortems
Organic evolution

Hold up the queue (.hold)
Work the issue with the people available in #push
Additional help always available in #sysops
Buddy-system for off-hours deploys
Ops-on-call, dev-on-call
When something goes wrong?

You won’t need an IRC channel.

- Deploying schema changes…. with code?
Today’s TOPICs

- Deploying schema changes…. with code?
Today’s TOPICs
(a.k.a Don’t do this!)

~15-20 minutes
THURSDAYS!
Code deploys
Schema changes

- Deploying schema changes
Today’s TOPICs
- Managing versions across services

Our web application is largely monolithic.
Etsy.com, Support & Back-oﬃce tools,
Developer API, Gearman (async work)

Etsy.com, Support & Back-oﬃce tools,
Developer API, Gearman (async work)
PHP, Apache, Memcache
Our web application is largely monolithic.

External “services” are not deployed with
the main application.
e.g. Databases, Search, Photo storage, Payments

e.g. Databases, Search, Photo storage, Payments
MYSQL
(schema changes)
SOLR, JVM
(rolling restarts)
PROXY CACHE,
FILERS, AMAZON S3
(specialized infra.)
PCI
(controlled access)
External “services” are not deployed with
the main application.

For every config flag, there are two states
we can support — present and future.

... or past and present.
For every config flag, there are two states
we can support — present and future.

“Non-Breaking Expansions”
Expose new version in a service interface;
support multiple versions in the consumer.

Example: Changing a Database Schema
Merging “users” and “users_prefs”

RULE OF THUMB
Prefer ADDs over ALTERs (non-breaking expansion)
C

!
1. Write to both versions
2. Backfill historical data
3. Read from new version
4. Cut-off writes to old version

0. Add new version to schema

0. Add new version to schema
Schema change to add prefs columns to “users” table.
!
“write_prefs_to_user_prefs_table” => “on”
“write_prefs_to_users_table” => “oﬀ”
“read_prefs_from_users_table” => “oﬀ”

Write code for writing prefs to the “users” table.
!
“write_prefs_to_users_table” => “on”
“read_prefs_from_users_table” => “oﬀ”

Oﬄine process to sync existing data from “user_prefs”
to new columns in “users”

Data validation tests. Ensure consistency both internally
and in production.
!
“read_prefs_from_users_table” => “staﬀ”
!

and in production.
!
“read_prefs_from_users_table” => “1%”
!

and in production.
!
!

and in production.
!
!
“This one goes to eleven.”

and in production.
!
“read_prefs_from_users_table” => “on” // same as 100%
!
!
!
!

After running on the new table for a significant amount
of time, we can cut off writes to the old table.
!
“write_prefs_to_user_prefs_table” => “off”
“read_prefs_from_users_table” => “on”
!

“Branch by Astraction”
Controller Controller
Users Model
“users” (old) “user_prefs” “users”
old schema new schema
(Abstraction)
http://paulhammant.com/blog/branch_by_abstraction.html

http://continuousdelivery.com/2011/05/make-large-scale-changes-incrementally-with-branch-by-abstraction/

Avoid temptation of putting logic into DB
Async worker queue (Gearman)
Get good at alerting on data inconsistencies
Easier to scale out app servers that DBs
Shards limit complexity
About our database design…

No longer valid for the business
No longer stable, valid, or trusted code
Impacting performance or readability
We can afford to spend time
Clean up old config flags?

Decouple schema changes from app code.
Aim for simplicity.

Start small. (We did.)
Automated tests and production monitoring.
Have a story around maintaining quality.
“We can always go back to the old way.”
Demonstrate value to leadership.

Advanced Topics in Continuous Deployment

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