Infrastructure Testing with Sensu and RSpec

Ben Snape

Agenda● Me● ITV● Why● What● How

Me● Developer in Test● Platform Engineer● Ruby, Puppet, Git, AWS

http://bensnape.com

ITV is the largest FTA commercial broadcaster in the UK, largest creator of unscripted content in the US, has 99.8% of all UK programmes with audiences of 5m or more

£2.5bn Revenue £1bn on new commissions

Distributed to 20 platforms including Sky,

BT and ITV Player

3,500 hours of original programming

The ProblemBusiness & Engineering Operations

● brings the team closer together● increased understanding● feedback loop● scalability

Why have monitoring?

Shared Responsibility

What is monitoring?

Logging MetricsAlerting

LoggingELK stack

storage collection / transformation

visualisation

Metrics

storage / API visualisation

Alerting

Sensu Infrastructure

Infrastructure Tests

Demo

https://github.com/bsnape/sensu-rspec-integration