DevOps, Continuous Delivery, Automation – an

executive primerTim Marston, MidVision

DevOps Breakfast

Agenda

9:00am – DevOps, Continuous Delivery, Automation Tim Marston, MidVision

9:15am – From DevOps to Operations Science Christopher Brown, Opscode

`9:30am – Applying DevOps: What does DevOps mean in the real

world? John O’Donovan, FT

9:45am – DevOps at Scale: Things we Learned Sam Pointer, OpsUnit

10:00am – Q&A

DevOps, Continuous Delivery, Automation

About Me

• Agile-aware since 2003

• Previously at Red Hat and mongoDB

• Currently leading alliances for MidVision

Defining DevOps

Wikipedia:“DevOps is a software development method that stresses communication, collaboration and integration between software developers and information technology (IT) professionals.” (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DevOps)

IBM:“An enterprise capability for continuous software delivery that enables clients to seize market opportunities and reduce time to customer feedback.” (http://ibm.co/18lOu3v)

Some History…

Quality

W. Edwards Deming

Agile in Utah

Meanwhile, in Virginia…

DevOps is born

A DevOps Engineer?

A DevOps Team?

A DevOps Product?

DevOps Natives

“In software development, adoption of DevOps practices is a given, at least in startups. The same should be true in legacy shops as well.”(http://gigaom.com/2013/08/28/for-some-devops-is-nothing-new/)

DevOps and Automation

DevOps(Philosophy)

Continuous Delivery(Practice)

ARA(Tools)

Application Release Automationa.k.a. Deployment Automation

“The process of packaging and deploying an application or update of an application

from development, across various environments, and ultimately to production”

Why ARA makes sense

Faster• No Manual or script-based processes• Faster deployments through whole lifecycle• More resource time for value-creation

Safer• Eliminate configuration-related errors• Workflow-scheduling• Audit & compliance controls