Let's DevOp! Give developers root access and a pager. Get rid of QA. Rename your Operations team the "DevOps" team. Now we're devopin'!
Ignite talk from DevOpsDays Silicon Valley 2013.
1. @nathenharvey
DevOp with Me!
• I f*%$ing hate DevOps!
• Which DevOps tool should we use?
• A job title at your company includes:
• DevOps Engineer
• DevOps Lead
• Your company has a “DevOps Team”
7. @nathenharvey
DevOps is not...
• A new name for
• System Administration
• Operations
• Release Engineering
• Site Reliability Engineering
• A tool
• A team
8. @nathenharvey
What is DevOps?
• Cultural and professional movement
• Development and Operations working together
toward a common goal
• Leveraging ideas & processes from other industries
• Enabling things like continuous delivery
9. @nathenharvey
The Back Office Becomes The Front Office
“In ten years, I’m certain
every COO worth their
salt will have come from
IT. Any COO who
doesn’t intimately
understand the IT
systems that actually run
the business is just an
empty suit, relying on
someone else to do their
job.”
Kim, Gene; Behr, Kevin; Spafford, George
(2013-01-10).The Phoenix Project: A Novel
About IT, DevOps, and HelpingYour Business
Win (Kindle Location 5802). IT Revolution
Press. Kindle Edition
10. DevOps is About CAMS
• Culture
• Automation
• Measurement
• Sharing
Willis, John (2010-07-16)
http://www.opscode.com/blog/2010/07/16/what-devops-means-to-me/
11. What is a “DevOps” Culture?
• Open Communication
• Incentive and Responsibility
Alignment
• Respect
• Trust
Walls, Mandi (April, 2013). Building a DevOps Culture. O’Reilly
http://oreilly.com/radarreports/building-devops-culture.csp
12. @nathenharvey
CAMS
• Culture
• Automation
• Use tools to reflect and reinforce the cultural goals
you’re striving for
• Measurement
• Data > Opinion
• Sharing
• within an organization
• with other organizations
14. @nathenharvey
Walk This Way
• “Oh, hell no! This is
hillbilly gibberish”
• “I don’t understand
this code”
• “What the hell are they
doing to our song?”
• “It works fine on my
machine”
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