The WHY of DevOpsDevOpsGuys – Arrows Group – DevOps Enthusiast Meetup
June 2014
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DevOpsGuys provide web application management for customers, giving them access to the expertise necessary for migrating, launching, maintaining and optimizing applications, allowing them to accelerate time-to-market and to focus on
adding value for their business.
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“It's a movement of people who think it's time for change in the IT industry - time to
stop wasting money, time to start delivering great software, and building systems that
scale and last.”
- Patrick Debois (@patrickdebois)
A little bit of DevOps WHAT, first 3
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DevOps is an alternative model for the creation of business value from the software
development life-cycle that encompasses a product-centric view across the entire
product life-cycle (from inception to retirement) and recognises the value in close collaboration,
experimentation and rapid feedback.”- http://blog.devopsguys.com/2014/04/16/devops-organic-versus-transformational-devops/
Our version of “What is DevOps?”
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Why do we need to change?
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Why is DevOps (part of) the
answer?
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WhyWhatHow
Why is WHY important?
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Start-With-Why-Leaders-Everyone/dp/0241958229
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8Powered by WHY…
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“We realized that we had to fix our technical debt, and that we couldn’t
keep living in a sea of engineering filth”- Michael Rembetsy, Etsy
Why = Emotional Needs
http://itrevolution.com/one-of-the-best-devops-talks-on-it-transformation-continuously-deploying-culture-by-rembetsy-and-mcdonnell-velocity-london-2012/
Emotive language powered by WHY…
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Why do we need to change?
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“The hierarchical structures and organizational processes we have used for decades to run and improve our enterprises are no longer up to the task of winning in this faster-moving world”
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http://www.stratabridge.com/2012/01/the-growth-control-paradox/rate-of-change-jack-welch/
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13Rates of Software Deployments
300 Deployments / Year
50-60 Deployments / Day
10+ Deployments / Day
Every 11.6 seconds
http://www.slideshare.net/grabnerandi/london-web-perfugperformancefocuseddevopsfeb2014
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14A lot’s happened in the IT world…
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15Moore’s Law* since 1989…
212.5 = 5,792 x* The generic “bang for your buck every 2 years” version
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17Development has changed
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http://pipelineconf.files.wordpress.com/2014/04/davefarley-rationaleforcontinuousdelivery.pdf
Agile works better
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19Agile success = pressure on Ops
42% vs 14% = 3x
* The generic “bang for your buck every 2 years” version
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21Cloud Sprawl
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23#4: The rise of Shadow IT
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“Gartner predicts that in less than three years, 35% of
enterprise IT expenditures will happen outside of the
corporate IT budget.”
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http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9226415/The_Upside_of_Shadow_IT?pageNumber=1
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“Results of PricewaterhouseCoopers' Digital IQ Survey indicate that at 100
of the companies PwC ranks as "top performers," IT controls less than 50% of corporate technology
expenditures.”
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http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9226415/The_Upside_of_Shadow_IT?pageNumber=1
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27So WHY DevOps then?OK, things are screwed but why is DevOps the answer
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28Quantifiable Benefits I
http://visual.ly/what-smart-businesses-need-know-about-devops
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29Quantifiable Benefits II
http://www.cioinsight.com/it-strategy/application-development/slideshows/devops-produces-major-enterprise-impact.html
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30ING Retail NL – More Change…
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31ING Retail NL – Less Incidents
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• The Business and Technical environment has changed• Time-to-Market is a key competitive advantage• We need new IT models to react to these changes
DevOps offers a new way of delivering business value across the product
lifecycle
In Summary…
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The DevOps Model
Culture •Hearts & Minds•Embrace Change
Automation •CI/CD/•“Infrastructure as Code”
Lean •Focus on producing value for the end-user•Small batch sizes
Metrics •Measure everything•Show the improvement
Sharing •Open information sharing•Collaboration
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Thank You
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• James Smith (@TheDevMgr) • Steve Thair (@TheOpsMgr)
About the Co-Founders
• 16 years of software delivery experience.
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