"Doing DevOps"
from A to Zen
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one last thing
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this is NO authorative content
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just MY 7-year DevOps practice
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"YMMV"
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slides have been reviewed by certified trainer
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no BS, vendor agnostic, buzzword free
10 deliverables of "doing devops"
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1. Written Business objectives
2. Up to date Backlog
3. “* as Code” git Repositories
4. Documentation for any process
5. Delivery pipelines
6. Automated Tests
7. Peer Reviews
8. Software artefacts (Docker images!)
9. Measurement dashboards
10. Blameless post-mortems
metrics to measure success
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Release velocity
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Mean Time To Repair
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Versions per pipeline stage
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Quality and Review Status per Version
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Active, recent and planned Deployments & Releases
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Environment Availability & Schedule
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easy one!
more automation==less errors,
reproducible workloads
your favorite scripting language,
can be declarative too!
AUTOMATE
WHY
HOW
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customer value first, delivering value to user, building solutions, not only apps
pipelines please, with quality gateways
BUILD
WHY
HOW
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to keep every piece of code, doc, infra, test, etc. under an auditable system
git everything. bonus: take a look at "gitops" set of principles
COMMIT all the things
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HOW
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embrace failure, discuss fragility, never hide anything under the carpet
blameless post-mortems
DISCUSS failures
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HOW
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add confidence in pushing value to production, remove FUD
ASAP without hesitation,
see something?
DO something
ELIMINATE fragility
WHY
HOW
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try and document your findings, aim for the "root cause", inject failure (cf. symian army)
FAIL (& learn)
WHY
HOW
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the Backlog is
your living pet,
it must stay
up-to-date and healthy
planned meetings with stakeholders to align business with work
GROOM
WHY
HOW
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taking shortcuts w/ delivery can make you faster at fixing things
have a hacking budget, keep quality, never indulge in cowboy mode
HACK
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HOW
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iterations are the agile practice of devops
many frameworks, lots of option, pick yours
ITERATE
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HOW
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less organization silos
more shared vision
1+1=3
get c-level support to push various roles into partners
JOIN forces
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HOW
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Efficient devops teams involve self-assessment of people and skills. Purpose driven people have better business value.
Pass tests, try another role, see if it fits you better
KNOW yourself
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HOW
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if you stop learning, you actually go backwards
take 1h/day to do non-commissioned work
LEARN
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HOW
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no monitoring==no feedback
can't take the next step if you can't see nothing
set business KPI,
don't only stare (at dashboards),
share alerts (or progress)
MEASURE
WHY
HOW
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no more top bottom design, negotiation over dummy execution
introduce agility by delivering value and then suggesting change (see MEASURE)
NEGOTIATE
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HOW
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you build it
you run it,
and then only
you will master it
get to really know
your env. configs,
release process,
capacity, etc.
OPERATE
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HOW
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because important is not urgent. downtime is not bearable!
eye candy
and new features
can wait
fix bugs ASAP,
see
Negotiate+Questions
PRIORITIZE
WHY
HOW
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as team maturity grows, any member will challenge tasks and priorities.
(that's a good sign)
no HiPPO (highest paid person's opinion) any more
give special moments,
make official room for it.
people should feel blameless
to ask the 5 W's
QUESTION (priorities)
WHY
HOW
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can't do devops without releases, or else it's just another local optimization with silos
ideally use deployment pipelines, at least stop manually running commands on SSH
RELEASE to production
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HOW
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transformation needs people, not the traditional ones. specialists are too deep and narrow (the "I" shape)
orgs should shop for "T" shaped people, with broad knowledge mixed with some expertise in a specific area
(think SRE, TDD devs, SecOps)
SHAPE your skills
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HOW
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because the usual suspects: bugs, regressions, rotting software
as early as possible, automated AMAP, (in production too!)
TEST
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HOW
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we need to USE tools, tech and technics, because we solve problems.
not the other way round /!\
question, try and qualify
(make or buy?)
UTILIZE (not just use)
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help others in your team, or other teams: invaluable bonds in the long term, especially if not on your payroll
agree on
"inner source principles".
it's like open source,
but inside your org.
VOLUNTEER
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HOW
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part of the
devops feedback loop,
you run it==you watch it
architect for observability
develop with tracing
operate with APM
WATCH production
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team members should be able to tell why this implementation or this design strategy, how it fits bizops
grooming, poker planning, etc.
XPLAIN why
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HOW
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progress is one of major metric in devops practice. ie. more progress=more customer value=more motivation.
measure it, share, celebrate, rinse and repeat. watch for the technical debt budget.
YIELD progress
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HOW
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DISCUSS
FAIL
JOIN
KNOW
PRIORITIZE
UTILIZE
XPLAIN
AUTOMATE
BUILD
COMMIT
ITERATE
MEASURE
BEHAVIORAL
STRUCTURAL
SITUATIONAL
LEARN
QUESTION
SHARE
VOLUNTEER
ELIMINATE
GROOM
HACK
NEGOTIATE
OPERATE
RELEASE
TEST
WATCH
YIELD
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