jax london 2014 "moving to devops mode: easy, hard or just plain terrifying?"
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DevOps - is it for you? Heard about the wonderful ways it could benefit your organisation, but put off by the scary stories? Can you really make the transition to DevOps, and is it worth it? Listen and learn from two DevOps practitioners about their hands-on experiences in making the change. Covering a range of real life examples, this talk will explain the real business benefits to be had from using DevOps techniques, as well as the technical and personal aspects involved. Whether it’s a small team within a startup or one of hundreds within a large organisation, this talk has practical advice on how to approach the challenge, what critical changes need to be considered, and what tools and processes are best suited for the situation. The adoption of DevOps is a game changing event for the industry. Learn why and learn how you can benefit from it too. This talk was presented with Steve Poole (@spoole167) at JAX London, October 2014TRANSCRIPT
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MOVING TO A DEVOPS MODE:
EASY, HARD OR JUST PLAIN TERRIFYING?
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Your Guides for Today’s Journey into DevOps…
Daniel Bryant Principal Consultant, OpenCredo
ü Full-Stack Developer ü Open Source Advocate ü Agile, Continuous Delivery and DevOps ü Finding problems, then solutions
Steve Poole IBM Developer
ü Making Java Real Since Version 0.9 ü Open Source Advocate ü DevOps Practitioner (whatever that means!) ü Driving Change
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Our Goals…
• DevOps is about extending ‘agility’ across your IT organisation • Implementing this is not going to be easy…
• … some things will be hard, some things terrifying
• However, there are real benefits
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In the beginning
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Design, Code
Unit test
Functional Test System test
Stage Configure
Fix bugs
Fix bugs Helpline
Monitor, backup upgrade, support, repair
security, compliance
Uses
reality chasm
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Reinforced team separation Long feedback cycles Long time-to-market
Tended to increase ‘Release Panic’
BIG Reality Chasm DEV OPS
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Break down the silos…
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ü Culture
ü Common goals
ü Shared responsibility
ü Education
ü Standard technology
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Netflix are not Unicorns!
Neither are Amazon, etsy, Spotify…
…and anyway…
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• Culture drives behaviour, drives culture… • “Communication, simplicity, feedback, courage”
• Everyone is responsible for delivery
• Continuous experimentation and learning
• Not easy to change culture • The hardest part of DevOps…
• …but you will learn new things
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• Greenfield • Flickr’s story (slidesha.re/sHpYV)
• “Why other people don’t get it”
• Sandro Mancuso (slidesha.re/1bcStpe)
• Enterprise • “The Phoenix Project” (Gene Kim et al)
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• Create an effective team…
• “Habits of highly effective technical teams” • Martijn Verburg (bit.ly/1aF9SnK)
• “Patterns of Effective Teams” • Dan North (vimeo.com/68226771)
• Buy some doughnuts… • Andrzej Grzesik (bit.ly/1o6TY01)
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…so how does this work for individual teams?
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Interlude… CD and DevOps
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• Create a build and deployment pipeline
• Adopting Continuous Delivery • Jez Humble (http://bit.ly/1oEReUM)
• Implementing Continuous Delivery • Rachel Laycock (http://bit.ly/1l1qMPf)
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Continuous Integration
JUnit
SCM Build
Build Orchestration
Unit Test
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Continuous Integration
JUnit
Continuous Delivery
Repository
Performance & QA
Deployment tools
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Continuous Integration
JUnit
Continuous Delivery
Continuous Deployment
Hosting
Deployment tools
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Continuous Deployment Pipeline
External Cloud
On premises cloud
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Startups through to big businesses are demanding the value that DevOps & Cloud Technologies can offer
1. Production deployment pipeline up and running in days
2. Updates published in hours
DevOps helps transition an organization into this new world… Helps to remove the ‘reality chasm’
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The cost?
1. Standardized pipelines
2. Dev and Ops teams working together
3. Greatly expanding your horizons and your technical skills
4. Leaving your comfort zone
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Make your move…
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• Continuous Integration • Unit / Integration Tests
• Automate all the things
• Stop throwing stuff over the wall… • …or we’ll throw you over it too!
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• Design patterns • Asynchronous communication
• Timeouts / retries
• Bulkheads / circuit-breakers
• Metrics are your friend • Technical and business data
• Logging (centralised)
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• Learn Linux fundamentals
• Diagnostic skills • top, iotop, iostat, netstat, vmstat
• Java utils: jps, jstat, jmap, jhat
• “DevOps Troubleshooting” by K. Rankin
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• Automate all the things…
• Tests can be specifications • Specifications can be tests…
• Make it easy for everyone to execute • Make it fast (and conditional)
• Contribute to the build pipeline • If you want people to care, then fail the build!
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• Unit and Intra-component integration testing • Utilise embedded datastore/middleware • Service Virtualisation (www.mbtest.org)
• Inter-component integration testing • The hardest part of SOA… • Consider ‘synthetic txns’ (active monitoring)
• Performance • JMeter + plugins • Gatling
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• Learn about coding (pair program!) • Python, Ruby, Groovy
• Get closer to Dev & QA • Provide constant feedback
• Embrace chaos for testing • Simian army…
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• Infrastructure monitoring • Nagios / Zabbix
• AppDynamics / Zipkin
• Several trail-blazers • Etsy (www.codeascraft.com) • Netflix (techblog.netflix.com)
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• “Infrastructure as Code”
• Automate all provisioning • Chef, Puppet, SaltStack, Ansible • Packer, Veewee, Aminator
• Play with Vagrant (www.vagrantup.com)
• The future? • LXC, Docker • Mesos, Kubernetes, CoreOS Fleet
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Why not?
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Are you personally ready?
• Do you use Agile techniques?
• Can you spell “Continuous Integration”?
• Are the advantages of DevOps clear? • Could you communicate them to your Dev & Ops teams?
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Summary
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Businesses need to be able to react faster… …DevOps and the Cloud are key enablers
DevOps is as much a game changer as Agile was…
…this is a Developer, QA and Ops “renaissance” Don’t be afraid to learn and experiment…
…you’ll benefit even if the tech doesn’t survive
Agile moved you closer to the customer… …DevOps moves you closer to the IT team
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You should be terrified
The transition will be hard
But it’s easy to get started
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