The Twelve-Factor App by Kristian Glass

Notes taken during a talk at PyConUK

#1 one code repo many deploys

#2 what about declaring your dependencies, e.g. gcc compiled items, deply containers

#3 read config from environment

debug flag, db connections etc
avoids secret leakage,
add defaults
make it language independent

populating env – foreman, supervisor (d?), ansible, bash -whatever etc

doismellburning – django app

www.doismellburning. co.uk .com?

NB: can be in another repo, just def outside of your app

#4 Loose coupling

#5 build, release (when config gets blended), run

build tip

fpm – builds an os package (ruby, don’t snigger too much – it’s awesome)

run stage needs to be a simple as possibly, do as much work in advance.  e.g. fetch eggs in build, collect static etc

#6 stateless

assume nothing about RAM, persist data to external serices

#7 Port binding:
clean interface, should be able to tell your app a protocol and port and go

#8 Scale out not up, start more processes, don’t daemonise – let the env do it

#9 Stop quick;y, stop nicely

#10 Keep env similar: time, people, tool gap

Deploy more often

people
-> get people together, devops, …

tools
-> it works on my machine

#11 Treat logs as event streams

Run a log agreegator

one event, one line

=> q. how do you handle exceptions – let the agreegotr handle this, some differently code new lines.

#12 Run admin tasks in your app, eg clean up old sessions, as a django management command not a one off script on some dev machine

Language and framework agnostics

The Software Sustainability Institute

PyConUK afforded me a great oppportunity to converse with fellow technicians, including those working in HE.  Carwyn, based at Bangor University, reminded me about the Software Sustainability Institute, based at the universities of Edinburgh, Manchester, Oxford and Southampton.  Whose aim is to support better research by helping researchers to build and use better software.

http://software.ac.uk/