DevOps – Fundamentals: A perspective on DevOps Culture

1. DevOps – Fundamentals
A perspective on DevOps Culture
Manoj Ganapathi,
Digital Technology Consultant, CodeOps
@manojgr, manojgr@gmail.com

2. “We have a great business strategy….
But IT is always in the way”

3. Embracing
New, complex architectures leveraging
Digital technology
While keeping
Release cycles short (Reduced time to Value)
The DUAL challenge for IT today

4. Source: Jez Humble, DevOps Culture

5. Ask yourself..
“If a developer makes a change, how long does it
take to get into production?”
“What has to happen for that change to get to
production?”
“What % of your time are you spending on
production support?”

6. DevOps - A Culture of “High Performance”
A cross-functional community of practice dedicated to the study of building,
evolving and operating rapidly changing, secure, resilient systems at scale

7. DevOps Culture
Automation
Agile
Processes
Lean
Engineerig• CI/CD
• Kanban
• …
• Reducing
WIP
• Elevating
Bottlenecks
• …
• Infrastructure as
code
• Config
Management/DSC
• Monitoring &
Instrumentation
• Automated Tested
• …

8. Drivers for IT
performance
 lead time for changes
 release frequency
 time to restore service
 change fail rate
Sidebar…Lead Time & Cycle time
To Institute..
 Measure everything
 Drive Outcomes
 Establish Trust
 Constant Feedback
 Continuous Improvement

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