devops fundamentals: a perspective on devops culture

DevOps – Fundamentals

A perspective on DevOps CultureManoj Ganapathi,

Digital Technology Consultant, CodeOps@manojgr, manojgr@gmail.com

“We have a great business strategy….

But IT is always in the way”

Embracing

New, complex architectures leveraging Digital technology

While keeping

Release cycles short (Reduced time to Value)

The DUAL challenge for IT today

Source: Jez Humble, DevOps Culture

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?”

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

DevOps Culture

Automation

Agile Processe

s

Lean Engineer

ig• CI/CD• Kanban• …

• Reducing WIP

• Elevating Bottlenecks

• …• Infrastructure as

code• Config

Management/DSC• Monitoring &

Instrumentation• Automated Tested• …

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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