The document outlines a presentation by Schlomo Schapiro on the evolving role of DevOps at Stackconf 2024 in Berlin, emphasizing the importance of developing organizational capabilities and skills for effective DevOps practices. It discusses the necessity of transitioning engineers into DevOps roles and highlights various key areas such as compliance automation, technology governance, and disaster recovery strategies. The focus is on collaboration, shared knowledge, and automated processes to enhance the effectiveness of engineering teams.

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The DevOps
Driving School
What comes after DevOps?
18.06.2024, stackconf 2024, Berlin
Schlomo Schapiro, Associate Partner / Principal Engineer, Tektit Consulting
(original author: Schlomo Schapiro, DB Systel GmbH)

2. TEKTIT
CONSULTING
When are we done with DevOps?
Let‘s hire more DevOps Engineers!
Our DevOps team does all that Ops stuff now.
We need to transition our engineers to DevOps
Hello, I am the Head of DevOps here
Creating a DevOps department will solve all our problems
On-call is a DevOps problem
The DevOps guys do on-call for us
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3. TEKTIT
CONSULTING
DevOps
is normal
Talk: “DevOps is Normal”, DevOps Essentials 2019
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4. TEKTIT
CONSULTING
Ops
Dev
DevOps Team Engineering
Team
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6. TEKTIT
CONSULTING
… if every person uses the same tool for the same job
… codified knowledge - everybody contributes his part to common automation
… if all people have the same privileges in their tooling
… if human error is equally possible for Dev and Ops
… replacing people interfaces by automated decisions and processes
... a result
DevOps is
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bit.ly/5devops

7. TEKTIT
CONSULTING
Happy DevOps Campers
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Engineering
Teams
git
?
CI CD
Runtime
Environments

8. TEKTIT
CONSULTING
Do you need a DevOps Driving School?
DevOps is like a driving license
for running code in production

9. TEKTIT
CONSULTING
We are not consultants. We are Partners, Coaches, Humans, Enablers, Catalysts, Sparring Partners, Experts
... and sometimes a little annoying.
I focus on IT strategy, IT governance, technology and architecture management, security and compliance automation,
related organisational changes, business continuity, open source and cloud technologies - and I’m available as a
Principal Engineer or Technical Product Owner for short-term / interim support.
Examples:
➢ Business-IT alignment & leveraging, developing required skills and abilities for 21st
century IT, leverage AI
➢ SaaS compliance & governance, data possession vs. ownership, IAM, integrations, backup & DR, shadow IT
➢ Compliance Automation, finding the “golden path” to a “golden state”
➢ Secrets Management for Datacenter, Cloud Infrastructure, IaaS/PaaS/SaaS
➢ Open Source, from usage to contribution, writing policies, using SBOM, establishing Open Source Stewardship
➢ Modern Workplace, Microsoft, Google or self-made IT strategy? Zero Trust, Beyond Corp, Linux, Chromebooks
➢ Good Engineering Practices, Platform Engineering, DevOps, GitOps, TDD, IT architecture, tech strategy
➢ Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery with quality assurance, no-restore solution, ransomware protection
➢ Linux Disaster Recovery / Bare Metal Restore with “Relax and Recover (rear)” Open Source tooling
How may I help you? schlomo.schapiro.org