A look back at software deployments, where they are today and how they might look in the future. Evaluate the frameworks that influenced deployments and where DevOps fits into the picture. #devopsdaysphx From: https://www.devopsdays.org/events/2017-phoenix/program/nick-willever/ Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SX79rjT34Nw Download: https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/willever/evolution_of_software_deployments.pdf Download with speaker notes: https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/willever/evolution_of_software_deployments_with_notes.pdf

1. Evolution of
Software Deployments
Nick Willever
Engineering Manager at

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“…is a part of a computer system that consists of data or computer
instructions, in contrast to the physical hardware from which the
system is built”
Software Deployments
Software
“is all of the activities that make a software system available for
use”

3. Punched Cards - invented 1725 - used for looms
Software theory - Alan Turing essay 1935
ON COMPUTABLE NUMBERS, WITH AN APPLICATION TO THE ENTSCHEIDUNGSPROBLEM
IBM Punch Cards - 1937 - printed 10 million punched cards per day
Software related history before 1960s
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4. Workflow:
Deployed with the
hardware
API:
Punched cards,
switches, registers,
neon tubes, printer
Software in the 1960s
IBM 704 at the University of California - http://ed-thelen.org/comp-hist/BRL61-0428.jpg
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5. 1970s, 80s, 90s - Physical Packaging
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6. Software in the 2000s, 2010s
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Deployment Workflows
Physical Virtual

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Virtual Packaging

9. Deploy all the things, all the ways
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10. Software Deployment Orchestration
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11. Datacenter (Racks, Switches, …)
Bare metal servers (x86)
Hypervisors
Virtual Machines
Cloud (IaaS)
Managed Applications (PaaS)
Containers (CaaS)
Serverless (FaaS)
???
The Stack (of layers)
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Tools are designed for a purpose

13. Be careful at the edge…
New layer = new deployment method
New layer = new toolsets
New layer = new measurements
New layer = security concerns
New layer = constant changes
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14. More Packaging
More Layers
More Toolsets
More Deployment Methods
More Knowledge
Do you see the pattern?
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15. New feature/tool released today, let’s use it!
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16. The future?
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City of Technology
new
deprecated
still a thing?

17. Constrained API
Convention driven
Test and support limited patterns
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The future!

18. Separating by layer
understand business needs
use the proper tool
deploys for the layer
create an API
One technology should not rule them all
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19. Orchestrate the layers
Glue & Pipelines
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Thank you!

21. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_deployment
https://goo.gl/QnmLCf (Google Books Ngram Viewer)
http://ed-thelen.org/comp-hist/BRL61-ibm0704.html
http://tomandmaria.com/Tom/Writing/SoftwareIn60s.pdf
https://thenextweb.com/shareables/2016/05/09/pied-piper-box-silicon-valley-actually-based/
https://www.gsmarena.com/apple_iphone_x-pictures-8858.php
https://xkcd.com/927/
http://www.crashonline.org.uk/17/sinclar3.htm
https://wiki.en.it-processmaps.com/index.php/History_of_ITIL
http://thecakeblog.com/2012/10/diy-chocolate-chip-cookie-cake.html
http://4ksamples.com/elysium-2013-2160p-1-minute-sample-footage/
https://unsplash.com
https://www.pexels.com
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punched_card
https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/Turing_Paper_1936.pdf
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_router
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Google_Nexus_smartphones
References
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