delivering gov.uk: devops for the nation

Delivering GOV.UK: DevOps for the nation

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Defnition of DevOps

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A culture where developers andweb ops work together

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The GovernmentDigital Service

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Our job is totransform government

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We want to make government services so good that people prefer to use them

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GOV.UK wasfrst

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The best place to fnd government services and information

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40 million unique visitors per month

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People come to GOV.UK when they are at their most vulnerable

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Government policy

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Seasonal rhythm of interaction with the state

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How we got here

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Working in an agile way

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Infrastructure, operations and compliance are non-negotiable

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Developers using their own laptops to deploy to production was a big win

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“Are we sure that deployments are going to work?”

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How we do DevOps

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Developers deploy their own code

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Developers support their code in production

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2nd line

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On call

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Incidents and post-mortems

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Technology choices

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These are the tools we use at the moment

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Monitoring

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Errbit for application exceptions

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Infrastructure as code

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But these are just web operations tooling

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Your frst 2nd line might be yourfrst experience of ops

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Document everything for people who are new to it

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Challenges for DevOps

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All your developers nowhave root

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DevOps in a platform environment

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