Long live the DevOps team!(effective team topologies)

Matthew Skelton@matthewpskelton

Skelton Thatcher Consulting, skeltonthatcher.com

Thursday 22nd October 2015, Leeds DevOps meetup group @leedsDevOps #leedsdevops

How Different Team Topologies Influence DevOps Culture

http://devopstopologies.com/

Anti-Type A – Separate Silos

Dev Ops

Anti-Type B – Separate DevOps Silo

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Anti-Type C – “We Don’t Need Ops”

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Anti-Type D –‘DevOps’ team as another Dev team

Dev Ops

DevOps

Anti-Type E –DevOps as the new SysAdmin team

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Anti-Type F –Ops embedded in a Dev Team

Dev

Ops

HT: Matt Franz (@seclectech)

DevOps

Anti-Type G – Dev-DBA gap!

Dev OpsDBA

Financial servicesOnline paymentsSoftware tools

PublishingCar hire

Legal software

Where?

Type 1 – Smooth Collaboration

Dev Ops[DevOps]

Type 2 – Fully Embedded

Dev Ops

Type 3 – Infrastructure-as-a-Service

Dev Ops[DevOps]

Type 4 – DevOps-as-a-Service

Dev Ops[DevOps]

Type 5 – Temporary DevOps Team

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Type 6 – ‘Facilitating’ DevOps Team

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Type 7 – SRE Team (Google)

Dev Ops

[DevOps]

SREHT: @kwdhinde

Type 8 – ‘Just run my Containers’

Dev Ops[DevOps]

HT: @jascbu

Type 9 – DB capability in Dev

Dev OpsDBA

[DevOps]

DB Dev

Type 9 – DB as a Service

Dev OpsDBaaS

[DevOps]

DB Dev

Enterprise – multiple types

HT: @EricMinick, IBM

https://twitter.com/EricMinick/status/517335119330172930

There is no ‘right’ team topology, but several ‘bad’ topologies for

any one organisation

http://devopstopologies.com/

Matthew Skelton@matthewpskelton

Skelton Thatcher Consultingskeltonthatcher.com

Thank you