Serena Software DevOps Drive-In Webcast Series – Expert Opinion: Adding Value to Open Source using Commercial Software Have you ever struggled trying to get your open source solutions to work with each other? Do you perceive using open source or commercial software as having to choose between one or the other? Learn how commercial software and open source software can actually add value to each other. Tools like Jenkins, Puppet and Chef are frequently used as part of DevOps automation solutions. Building a full release management solution, including DevOps automation using open source software alone can be done. However, to make it successful, large teams of experts are required to chain things together. Commercial software can actually help bridge the gap and make you productive without needing large teams to create and maintain your tools. DevOps experts Dave Nielsen and Jonathan Thorpe discuss: • Hidden costs of exclusively using open source or commercial software • Benefits of implementing commercial software and open source • Critical success factors to think about when choosing commercial software to exist with your open source software Discussion is followed by a demo of Serena’s release management solutions by Senior Solutions Architect Erika Marwood.

1. Adding value to open source using
commercial software
A DevOps story

2. Jonathan Thorpe
Jonathan Thorpe is Product Marketing Manager for all things
DevOps and Continuous Delivery at Serena Software.
Previously Jonathan worked as a Systems Analyst at Electric
Cloud, specializing in DevOps-related solutions. Prior to Electric
Cloud Jonathan worked in development teams specializing in
development process and infrastructure.
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3. Dave Nielsen
Nielsen is the co-founder of CloudCamp, the largest
grassroots cloud computing organization in the world. He is
also the principal consultant at Platform D, a strategic
consulting company, where he helps companies organize
hackathons and other events to promote their cloud-based
technologies to developers.
Prior to Platform D, Nielsen was one of the first Web API evangelists, serving
as PayPal's first technical evangelist. He went on to grow the PayPal
Developer Network to over 350,000 developers. As one of the original web
services industry professionals, Nielsen has had to stay at the forefront of
"what's next," constantly shifting roles within web services.
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4. What is DevOps?
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DevOps is a movement to
bring about collaboration
between the members
of development and
operations groups
John Willis best described
DevOps as consisting of 4 core
components known as CAMS
 Culture
 Automation
 Measurement
 Sharing

5. Quote Example
SERENA SOFTWARE INC.5
"Enterprise IT must change from the inside or it will get disrupted
from the outside. DevOps can help bring IT the necessary change."
Dave Nielsen
“By 2015, DevOps will Evolve from a Niche Strategy … into a
Mainstream Strategy Employed by 20% of Global 2000
Organizations.”
Gartner Research
Catalysts Signal the Growth of DevOps; Feb 2012

6. The early DevOps adopters
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7. What open source tools are available to
support a DevOps initiative?
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Open
source
Puppet
Chef
Vagrant
+many
others
Docker
Jenkins

8. Example open source DevOps toolchain
SCM Build and
Pipeline
Mgmt
VM Layer Server
Configuration
Automated
Tests
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9. DevOps in the enterprise
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10. What parts of a DevOps toolchain does
commercial software commonly cover?
Application
deployment
Release
management
Process
management
Integrations
between
complex systems
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11. Using commercial software to add value
to the open source toolchain
SCM Build
VM Layer Server
Configuration
Automated
Tests
Release Control and Reporting
Release
Automation
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12. Stay tuned for the demo!
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13. Continue the discussion
@jonathan_thorpe
jthorpe@serena.com
@davenielsen
dave@platformd.com
Serena DevOps blog posts
serena.com/blog/category/devops
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14. Demo
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