Cultivating a DevOps Culture
Agile India 2013
Hi!
@exortech | Product Lead
Yes, we do devops
Disclaimer: More Dev than Ops
Virtualization will solve the energy crisis
What is DevOps?
Building bridges
So, what's the problem?
Devs don't understand production
Ops don't understand the system
"Tell me how you measure me and I will tell you how I will behave" - Eli Goldratt
Devs measured on features
Ops measured on uptime
Nothing destabilizes production like a new release
ITIL
SOX
State of the (dis)union
We are all monkeys
We'll come back to this
Tear down the wall
Bring back the love
Bring back the agility
Why DevOps?
3 reasons
1) Move faster than the competition
2) Technology as a business driver
3) You want to know how things really work in production
Where does DevOps come from?
3 main drivers:
1) WebOps
10+ deploys per day (at scale)
2) Cloud/Managed Hosting
3) Agile/Lean
Frequent releases
Extend the value stream
Test-driven infrastructure
Jez needs a new ride
How to introduce DevOps?
Our experience
5 principles
- Accountability
- Transparency
- Consistency
- Redundancy
- Leverage
Accountability
Devs do deploys
Fully automated deployment
Daily support rotation
Polyglot (growth mindset)
Uptime is everyone's responsibility
Zero-downtime deployment
Password management
Shell access
Measure user value
Transparency
Statusboard
System monitoring
Ganglia
Scout
StatsD + Graphite
Site monitoring
Error notification
Airbrake
User tracking
Consistency
Test reflects production
Configuration is code
Keep under source control
Automated provisioning
- Declarative configuration
- Ruby-based DSL
- Push and pull
- Large install base
- Pure Ruby
- Execution order
- Better cloud support
- More momentum
Infrastructure builds
Remote administration
Use production data
Redundancy
Support responsibility
Server redundancy
Zero-downtime deploys
Database replication
Zero-downtime data centre migration
Queues
Circuit breakers
Feature toggles
The Netflix Chaos Monkey
(told you we'd come back to this)Leverage
Focus on core competencies
Managed hosting
Cloud computing & storage
Managed DNS
Source control
Customer engagement
Hosted provisioning services
In summary
Building bridges
Shared accountability
Transparency
Consistency
Redundancy
Leverage
#winning devops culture
Thanks