Open Sourcing Your Infrastructure

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Argues for releasing production configuration and reference implementations instead of abstract examples, citing open-sourcing most department infra while keeping passwords and GPG blobs private. Describes concrete artifacts to publish: salt ops repo, Chef and Packer manifests, Packer build configs, runbooks, Glue code that brings up RDS, Redis, nginx and app servers, and a secrets backend using HashiCorp Vault. Notes BSD 3-clause licensing and a continuum from single modules to full stacks.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 1:39Jimmy Guerrero the Vp of Marketing from Signify
3. 3:21Sponsors
4. 3:51Tobias Mace
5. 6:15Why Do You Want To Open-Source Your Infrastructure Code
6. 11:44How Can You Get Started
7. 15:13Overall Architecture Patterns

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