I was fortunate enough to be asked to give the opening address to the OpenStack Seattle Days 2016 conference. These types of events are mini-conferences put on in partnership with the local OpenStack user group. The user group gets tickets at a discount that is subsidized by the vendor sponsorships. We generally follow the user group rules of focusing on community works, not selling a product with our talks. This is my second year attending this event in Seattle put on by Sriram Subramanian. Excellent food, entertaining talks, and a great venue. I will definitely come back again. Read more at http://www.openstackseattle.com/ and http://www.meetup.com/OpenStack-Seattle/events/232134301/.

1. Transforming
Sean Roberts
@sarob
seanroberts66@gmail.com
30 September 2016

2. Retail store started in 1962 by Sam
Walton
Today, 11,000+ stores under 65
banners in 28 countries
100+ distribution centers worldwide
Over 2 million employees, largest
private employer worldwide
What is Walmart

3. Walmart Labs was formed in 2011
Walmart Labs is the .com side of
Walmart supporting the 80 million
monthly walmart.com visitors
3,600 people and growing
We are making this an awesome
place to work through merit based
work from everyone
We are hiring, walmartlabs.com/jobs
Who is

4. 170,000+ cores on
OpenStack
100,000+ of monthly
OneOps auto repairs
1,000+ of monthly OneOps
auto replace events
40,000+ monthly OneOps
deployments
60+ open source products
Agile Production

5. CD PatternsDeployable Patterns (Packs)
Enable Consistency
Consistent DevOps Lifecycle
Management Patterns
Application
Patterns
open source

6. Software defined infrastructure
projects started in 2010 by NASA and
Rackspace
Currently, 6,200+ contributors from
360+ frenemy companies
collaborating on common
infrastructure goals
Many tens of thousands members
What is OpenStack
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7. Thousands of monthly contributions
Who is OpenStack
http://activity.openstack.org/dash/browser/
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8. Who is OpenStack
Hundreds of projects
http://activity.openstack.org/dash/browser/
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9. This breaks down often
Different release schedules
Different time zones
Changing priorities
Commitment wanes over time as pressure builds
Coordinating Multi-Team Work

10. Track the release schedules of projects
Product Managers recommend or pick off blueprints,
epics they want to push forward and add it to their
own roadmaps. DevOps pick up the roadmap work.
Product Manager drive the timing of the work
Loosely track project work available for next cycle
Cross Product, Project Work

11. Thank you
@sarob
@One_Ops