devops: it's automation revolution
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DevOps is an emerging name for the collection of techniques we are adopting to meet this challenge and close the gap. While the DevOps movement is relatively young, many of its approaches are rooted in existing best practices. This presentation makes an argument for DevOps, and proposes a DevOps Infrastructure team to help implement tooling that brings Developers and Operations folks together. These slides are from a recorded webcast available here: http://www.urbancode.com/html/resources/webinars/DevOps_ITs_Automation_Revolution.htmlTRANSCRIPT
DevOps: IT’s Automation Revolution
Adopt DevOps Thinking To Automate Application Deployment
Eric Minick Lead Consultant – Urbancode
Glenn O’Donnell Principal Analyst – Forrester
@glennodonnell
Complexity
Kill complexity before it kills you!
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Virtualization
Cloud
Mobile
Agile Dev
AccelerantReal Complexity
ManualAbility
Theoretical
“The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same
level of thinking we were at when we created them.”
— Albert Einstein
Welcome to a new Industrial Revolution
Consistent
Cost effective
Productive
Few surprises
There are too many surprises in IT!
Unresolved, IT reputation declines
Conflict inhibits industrialization
Dev Ops
Stereotypes fuel conflict
Ops StereotypeDev Stereotype
• Impatient
• Temperamental
• Careless about changes
• Prima donna artists
• Ignorant about the “real world”
• Slow to act
• Temperamental
• Too rigid about changes
• Always says “No!”
• Too dumb to understand apps
How can you reduce the conflict?
• Destroy the stereotypes! Get people talking!
• App Dev and Operations CAN join forces
• Involve both in the industrialization strategy
• Instill discipline with flexible process
• Accelerate with automation
• Do it now or executives WILL take action
An improved collaboration between Dev & Ops
Dev + Ops
How to make DevOps work
• Talk!
• Measure
• Accept and hide complexity but don’t love it
• Embrace process discipline across the lifecycle
• Start with a common release management process
• Automate release management execution
• Inject rich feedback across the lifecycle
• Change the incentives
• Adapt the organization(s)
• Measure
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What is automation?
Task Execution• Individual tasks
• Repetitive tasks are candidates
Process Flow• Connects tasks and decisions
• Workload automation and RBA
Decision Trigger• Analytics (not just monitoring)
• When and why to take action
Tools that perform functions otherwise done by humans
“Fast and Accurate” is not a paradox
• “Process = Bureaucracy”is a misconception
• Discipline becomesoppressive onlyif taken too far
• Good processenhances agility
• Automationfurther acceleratesexecution
AgilityDiscipline
Traditional
Transition
Agile
Transition
Leaving
DevCome Back Soon!
Welcome To
OpsDrive Safe!
Leaving
DevCome Back Soon!
Welcome To
OpsDrive Safe!
Agile Dev meets Agile Ops
Release Management is Too Slow
Streamlined Release Management
The Typical Life Cycle Is Broken
• One-way flow doesn’t allow for continual improvement
• Information developed early is lost when given to Ops• Ops must resort to reverse engineering (a wasteful effort)
• Release from App Dev to Operations is a huge problem• Thus, also a huge opportunity
• Cultural barriers must fall but tools must also evolve• New tool developments are promising
AppDev Ops
Ops
EA QA
Collaborate Across The Life Cycle
• Feedback makes it a true lifecycle with continual improvement
• Automation based upon apps span the lifecycle• Apps become adaptive like infrastructure now is
• Information is preserved and put to good use everywhere
• A well-managed portfolio emerges from people communicating!
AppDevEA QA Ops
Agile Process
Development Staging Production
Package
Package releases for speed & accuracy
Transitions
of
Components
Transitions
of a
Package
Move packages, not individual components
?
Automation is more an evolution of trust than
an evolution of technology.
YOU ARE HERE
The evolution of trust and technology
Real Complexity
ManualAbility
AutomationSilver Bullet
Trust Gap
Trust
Evolution
Automation Evolution
Will automation replace my job?
• Don’t fear automation … embrace it!
• This is the future … be a part of the future!• History has not been kind to those who
resist the inevitability of progress!
Maybe… but resistance is futile!
If you cling to the past, you have no future
Hot new roles emerge
• Business relationship manager
• Automation architect
• Service designer
• Service manager
• Vendor manager
• Process owner
Hire, fire, and rewire to fill the needs
Who does DevOps? …. Who automates?
Everyone does, but who “owns” it?
Ambiguity will destroy you!Clarify roles & responsibilities
Dev OpsServiceDesign
ServiceOperation
ServiceTransition
Summary
• Embrace the new reality of industrialized IT
• Talk to each other!
• Abandon the stereotypes of all parties
• Abandon the love affair with complexity – your job is to
simplify
• Streamline the handoff from Dev to Ops (agile lifecycle)
• Get serious about process discipline, but don’t go too far!
• Institute systems engineering practices across the entire
lifecycle
Pursue DevOps automation to lead industrialized IT
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A 3rd Silo?
Dev DevOpsTeam Ops
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A 3rd Silo?
Dev DevOpsTeam Ops
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So how do we bring these guys together?
Dev Ops
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DevOps Infrastructure Team
Dev Ops
DevOpsInfrastructure
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Release Management too
Dev Ops
DevOpsInfrastructure
ReleaseManagement
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Role of DevOps Infrastructure Teams
http://www.urbancode.com/html/resources/webinars/Building_a_DevOps_Toolchain.html
Build AutomationTool-chains
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Role of DevOps Infrastructure Teams
http://www.urbancode.com/html/resources/webinars/Building_a_DevOps_Toolchain.html
Build AutomationTool-chains
• Product Mindset• Delivered as a service• Models
- Post Office- Some assembly required
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Reduce Tool per Siloism
• Common backlogs• Common builds• Common IaaS• Common deployments
We’re soo different in our needs, we need
our own thing
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Evangelize and Coach
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These teams survive and thrive
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Urbancode References
http://urbancode.com/resources
White Papers– Enterprise CD Maturity Model– Lean Build & Deployment Automation– Deployment Automation Basics
Stay in touch:
Blogs.urbancode.comTwitter:@UrbanCodeSoft, @EricMinick
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Yes, we sell DevOps oriented products
• uBuild – Build automation and CI for the hard problems
• uDeploy– Deployment and release management
• uProvision– Spins up virtual environments. Integrated with
VMWare, Azure and EC2• uRelease
– Release & Environment management / planning
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Q&A
Contact Eric [email protected] @UrbanCodeSoft @EricMinick
www.urbancode.com
Contact Glenn O’Donnel+1 [email protected] @glennodonnell
www.forrester.com