Originally presented by Max Appiah-Kubi at MuraCon EU 2014 in Edinburgh, Scotland.

1. How to plan a successful
multi-site deployment in
Mura CMS
By Max Appiah-Kubi

2. Who am I ?

3. Presentation Overview

4. Presentation Overview
• Planning

5. Presentation Overview
• Planning
• Developing the solution

6. Presentation Overview
• Planning
• Developing the solution
• Deployment

7. Presentation Overview
• Planning
• Developing the solution
• Deployment
• Monitoring

8. Presentation Overview
• Planning
• Developing the solution
• Deployment
• Monitoring
• Maintenance and enhancements

9. Before We Get Started

10. Before We Get Started
How do you define a successful deployment?

11. Before We Get Started

12. Planning
Why do we need to plan?

13. Planning
Start from project inception

14. Planning
Weighing the cost of not planning

15. Planning
Weighing the cost of not planning

16. Planning
Client / Organisation needs
• Stakeholder participation
• Requirements
• Assessment

17. Planning
The team (Who to include?)
• Project Manager
• Developers
• Ops
• QA
• Support

18. Planning
Infrastructure (Hardware)
• Servers
• Load balancers
• Routers
• SAN

19. Planning
Infrastructure (Software)
• Mura
• Application server
• OS
• Database

20. Planning
Fault Tolerance
• Performance and High-Availability
• Redundancy

21. Planning
Capacity Planning

22. Planning
Environments
•Development
•Staging / Test
•Production

23. Planning
Source Control Management

24. Planning
Security

25. Planning
Rollback, Backup and Recovery

26. Planning
Prototype the deployment

27. Planning
Timelines

28. Developing the solution

29. Developing the solution
Example Architecture

31. Developing the solution
Setting up the infrastructure

33. Developing the solution
Setting up software stack
• Operating system (Windows and Linux)
• IIS or Apache
• Railo or ColdFusion
• Tomcat
• Mura

34. Developing the solution
Configuration management
•Chef
•Puppet

35. Developing the solution
Mura (Multi instance or Single instance?)

36. Developing the solution
Target domains
• Development
• Staging
• QA
• Production

37. Developing the solution
Securing the setup

38. Developing a solution
Deployment pre-preparation

39. Deployment

40. Deployment
What is deployment?
… and the most important things about it

41. Deployment
What is deployment?
… and the most important things about it
“Software deployment is all of the activities that make a software
system available for use”

42. Deployment
Basics of deployment
…things we typically have to do to get a system up and running

43. Deployment
• Synchronise source code
• Configure web server
• Configure site options
• Set environment-specific configuration (file paths, database
details, hostnames, SSL on/off, e-mail addresses, debugging
etc.)
• Set up database server
• Deploy database
• Set up scheduled jobs
• Configure DNS

44. Deployment
How to perform a deployment
…different approaches and their advantages and disadvantages

45. Deployment
Manual

46. Deployment
Manual
• Cons
• They are slow
• Time consuming
• They aren’t consistent across environments
• Likely to fail in production
• No audit trail, you don’t who deployed what, where or when

47. Deployment
Manual
• Pros
• Have more control
• Have always done it
• Easy to do eg using FTP
• Scripts

48. Deployment
Automatic

49. Deployment
Automatic
• Pros
• Faster
• Less error prone
• Improves consistency
• Requires tools
• Eliminates communication problems
• If you set it up right it will run clockwork

50. Deployment
Modern deployment

51. Deployment
High level view of a deployment process

52. Deployment
Delivery pipeline
• Continuous integration tooling

53. Deployment
Continuous integration tooling
•VCS integration

54. Deployment
Continuous integration tooling
•CI server - Jenkins

55. Deployment
CI Server - Jenkins (screenshot)

56. Monitoring

57. Monitoring
• FusionReactor
• Visual VM
• New Relic (Rackspace)
• Nagios

58. Maintenance and enhancements

59. Maintenance and enhancements
• Sustainability

60. Maintenance and enhancements
• Sustainability
• Post launch support

61. Questions