During this presentation we explore what DevOps is and the different flavors. We learn what some of the better practices and tools are and get a high level understanding of how they can be used to improve your organizations delivery of business value.

1. What the heck is DevOps
and why do we need it?
@daniel_davis
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2. Who I am?
Business Improvement Consultant
Agile Practitioner/Developer
Innovator
Hacker
Maker
Cub Master
Professional Snowboard Instructor
Where I’ve been?
Delphi
AAA Life
General Motors
Blue Cross Blue Shield
Cengage Learning
Delta Dental
Gordon Food Service (GFS)
Cintas
Farm Bureau Insurance
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3. Focus For The Session
Principles over Prescription
Discussion over Presentation
Experiential Learning over Listening
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4. DevOps - Defined
DevOps is a portmanteau of
“development” and “operations”
Development + Operations = DevOps
Portmanteau is a combination of
two (or more) words and their
definitions, into one new word.
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5. DevOps is a software development
method that stresses communication,
collaboration and integration between
software developers and infrastructure
operations professionals.
DevOps - Defined
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6. DevOps is in response to the
interdependence of these two groups
and aims to help an organization rapidly
produce software products and services
by bringing them closer together.
DevOps - Defined
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7. Similar to how Agile helps to bring
business and development together
to achieve quicker, better, cleaner
business value. DevOps intends to
do the same with development and
operations.
DevOps - Defined
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8. DevOps integration tends to target the
following areas...
- product delivery
- quality testing
- monitoring and metrics
- maintenance releases
all in an effort to improve reliability and
security and provide faster development
and deployment cycles.
DevOps - Defined
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9. DevOps also aids in software
application release management
by helping to standardize the
development environments.
DevOps - Defined
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10. DevOps - Defined
It’s origins stem from both the
Enterprise Systems Management
and Agile software development
movements. First being popularized
in 2009 and growing ever since.
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11. - Co-location of teams where the
development and operations teams are
brought together into the same space and
work together on a daily (or close to it) basis.
DevOps - Flavors
- Team resources grow their knowledge of
the processes and tools so that they
become an integrated part of the normal
routine.
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12. - Agile and other development processes and
methodologies
- Demand for an increased rate of production
releases from the business
- Wide availability of virtualized and cloud
infrastructure (both internal and external)
- Increased usage of data center automation
and configuration management tools
DevOps - Drivers
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13. - Trust
- Consistency vs. Flexibility
- What is right for one side is not always right
for the other
- What others?
DevOps - Constraints/Barriers
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14. DevOps - Practices
- Daily touch points (stand ups)
- Team Estimation & Planning
- Continuous Integration
- Automated Testing
- Automated Dashboards (big & visible)
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15. DevOps - Tools
Conf Mgmt
- Chef
- Puppet
- Salt
- Ansible
- CFEngine
- Cloudify
Release Mgmt
- Plutora
- Serena
Virtual Machines
- Amazon Machine Image
- VMware
Monitoring/Analysis
- Splunk
- Icinga
Process
- Jira
- Confluence
- Jenkins
- Sonarqube
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16. What if we approach projects with the
ops side as the focus, rather than the
normal dev focus.
Perhaps getting the business talking
with ops as a starting point before all
the rest?
DevOps - Possibilities
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17. NoOps - Two theories behind this...
- We establish a process through Cloud
Infrastructure-as-a-Service or Platform-as-a-
Service to provide the resources needed.
- Get the people and knowledge to be part
of the team and break-down the walls that
are dividing them.
DevOps - Possibilities
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18. DevOps - Why
As with Agile being less about any
prescriptive tools or practices...
DevOps also is beyond them, it’s more
about the collaboration between the
development and operations teams and
the efforts to more effectively drive
business value.
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19. What can you do to make DevOps
a reality in your organization?
DevOps - Challenge
- What if devs invite ops into your stand-ups
or your planning sessions.
- How about the reverse and you brought
some devs into the ops context?
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20. DevOps - Follow-ups
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21. DevOps - Follow-ups
- DevOps Presentations
- http://www.slideshare.net/geekle/devops-5348895
- https://speakerdeck.com/justincarmony/mentoring-devs-into-
devops-saltconf-2014
- DevOps Cafe - Podcast
- #DevOps - twitter
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22. Q & A
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23. Business Solutions Consultancy
For those who value... value.
Clients collaborate with us to solve
business problems.
The first step is figuring out how we can
either make or save them money.
BUSINESS AGILITY
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24. Daniel Davis
ddavis@pillartechnology.com
daniel.davis.tech@gmail.com
@daniel_davis
linkedin.com/in/davisdaniel
Thank you!
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