This presentation talks about the challenges of innovating and transforming your application to be cloudy. It's also an introduction to DevOps for business.

1. Marc Cluet
Head of DevOps & Automation Advisory
Rackspace

2. Who am I?
Marc Cluet
More than 16 years of experience
6 months Racker!
Lived in Switzerland for 4 years!
(on the other side of the Röstigräben)
Worked at Startups, founded startups

3. Who am I?
Marc Cluet
More than 17 years of experience in the industry
6 months Racker!
Lived in Switzerland for 4 years! (on the other side of the Röstigräben)
Worked at Startups, founded startups as well
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5. Migrating an app to the cloud
I want to be in the Cloud

6. Migrating an app to the cloud
Should be quick...

7. Migrating an app to the cloud
Just move as is
all your app to the cloud

8. Migrating an app to the cloud
Feel confident so far?

9. Migrating an app to the cloud

10. Migrating an app to the cloud
Moving a legacy application to the cloud
Dangerous decision!
Cloud Servers can fail
You need redundancy (not only HA)
Specially DATA redundancy!
Be ready for adding new servers
Automate your Server deployment
Add Load Balancing layers
Will help your changing environment

11. Data Redudancy
Choose what works for your application
Multi-Master SQL should work
Consider NoSQL if you have any of the following
Documents, lots of them
Tables with lots of crossed references
Simple Key to Value relationships

12. NoSQL is Cloud Friendly
Key Aspects of NoSQL
Schemaless
No joins (in the SQL sense)
Eventually consistent

13. NoSQL is Cloud Friendly
Key Aspects of NoSQL
Schemaless
No joins (in the SQL sense)
Eventually consistent

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15. Automate your Servers
Everything IS code!
Treat your Servers as Commodities
No Server should be “special”
Measure all the things

16. Automate your Servers
Provisioning
Takes your Server from nothing to basic OS
Can add some extra hooks for further configuration

17. Automate your Servers
Configuration Management
Creates exactly what you need
Conforms a Server to a Role
Maintains State

18. Everything as Code

19. Everything as Code
Code repositories
Create the same Development lifecycle
Your Server code is also an application!

20. Everything as Code
If you write it TEST it!
Continuous Integration gives you assurance
Set on good behaviors

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22. Metrics
If it moves Graph It
Graphs and logs are key for your success
The 5% top and bottom tells where to go

23. Getting this to full circle

24. Getting this to full circle
DevOps!

25. DevOps!
Culture and Work methodology
Set of tools
Deployment strategy
Way of measuring *everything*
Automate all the things

26. DevOps!
Be Agile
Agile methodologies help you get there early
Release early, release often
We release several times a day
Code + CI/CD ensures quality
Helps you change your scope quickly