BIO
■ 17+ years in IT
■ Microsoft Azure MVP
■ Certified cloud architect
■ #MSUGODUA
■ Developer and mentor
■ Working @Solidify AB
■ Different perspective
■ Your friend and neighbour :)

The talk plan
■ Alternative view on the current basics from
architect/customer side.
■ Difference between small, medium and big companies and
trends there.
■ Why big companies trying to build Internal Developer
Platforms and removing Ops from Dev
■ Rise of shadow ops and projects without DevOps engineers
■ IaC for developers and architects

Escape from CNCF landscape…

The problem
■ Lack of trained DevOps/Platform engineers
■ Rise of Terraform coders
■ One engineer for 5-7 projects in consultancies
■ Developers writing IaC in native languages
■ Raise of AI & tools to generate infra & pipelines
■ Raise of Platform(product) engineering
■ Self service tooling for developer delivery needs
■ FAANG & co switching to the custom IDP

And another side

Що робити
з цим хайпом?

The root cause of PE
■ Developer productivity engineering
■ DPE aims to boost delivery speed
■ Reduce mean-time-to-resolution
(MTTR) for build and test failures
■ Retain talent by investing in
developer happiness :)
■ Providing serverless-like developer experience
■ Lack of control over Ops teams

DevOps as product team
■ Introduce product like approach for Ops
■ Building IDP via feature requests
■ Product manager controls delivery cadence
■ Dev teams decide what is good for them
■ Developer self service portal as artefact
■ Build of holistic approach instead of tools zoo
■ Clarify the team purpose as internal product
■ Delegate observability, containers to PE team

Go green

Internal Developer Platform
■ Infrastructure orchestration
■ Role-based action management
■ Application configuration management
■ Deployment management
■ Environment management
■ Observability and security
■ Less engineers to hire and train
■ GitHub, Zalando, Netflix, Google, etc..

PE tooling landscape

SRE role
■ Responsibilities stays the same
■ DevOps with night shifts & +100% salary
■ Incident management
■ Failure mitigation
■ Complex incident response automation
■ Fine tuning on-prem for OpenShift cluster
■ Removing the single points of failure
■ Boring root cause analysis

PORT as example

Platform engineer
■ Full stack superman
■ Can handle on-premises K8s clusters
■ Can handle front-end tasks
■ Doing GitOps and DevSecOps
■ Understand 3 levels of abstraction
deep down
■ Can choose wisely CNCF tooling :)
■ Earning +50 - 100% more

Do you customer need it?
■ It Depends :)
■ No, with mature engineering teams
■ No, with medium infra complexity
■ No, with team size up to 40 engineers
■ Yes, with complex infrastructure
■ Yes, with a lot of JS devs :)
■ Yes, in case of 10+ teams
Не вір мій син… (с)
Лесь подерв'янський

Чого бажає
DevOps?

DevOps dream life
■ 3 jobs with total 8 hours of work :)
■ Great night sleep
■ More new tools and automation
■ No alerts on prod environment
■ Dedicated SRE person
■ Ops without development
■ Favorite cloud with managed Kubernetes
■ Terraform and no config drift

Чого бажає
Dev?

Developer dream life
■ Two jobs with total 8 hours of work :)
■ No huge JSON and YAML scripts
■ Infras in a project language
■ Proper Unit/Integration tests
■ Git(Ops) for everything
■ Access to all environments
■ Tryout the fancy F# IaC via Farmer
■ Serverless first approach for everything

Pulumi in a nutshell
■ Team favorite language for infrastructure
■ C#, JS, TS, Python, Go)
■ All popular cloud providers support
■ Desired state configuration + state service
■ Proper unit testing
■ Dev portal for deployment status.
■ State service that contain deployed IaaS

How much? Cheaper than Engineer

CDK8S.io and ChatGPT

What
architects
like?

brainboard.co

How much? Cheaper than Engineer

So? It depends…
■ Big companies try to build IDP
■ Medium companies adopting DevOps
■ Small companies continue with Shadow Ops
■ DevOps engineers will work on several jobs
■ Product oriented Ops & Devs earn 50% more
■ Serverless containers will abstract Kubernetes
■ Happily ever after Ukraine victory

Thanks!
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