1. BRINGING AGILE TO
DEPLOYMENTS

2. Christopher Gallo
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@allmightyspiff
github.com/allmightyspiff/

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The Agile Manifesto
• Customer satisfaction by rapid delivery of useful software.
• Working software is delivered frequently.
• Working software is the principal measure of progress.
• Sustainable development, able to maintain a constant pace.
• Continuous attention to technical excellence and good design.

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The Problems
• We need to be able to deploy quickly.
• Consistently.
• Across a wide range of devices.
• With minimal downtime.
• Rollbacks.

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A Cautionary Tale
dougseven.com/2014/04/17/knightmare-a-devops-cautionary-tale/
@dseven

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The Promised land of Dev-Ops

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Getting Ready
• Take a deep breath
• Create a checklist!

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Example Checklist

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Found out what we need to update
Found out where we need to deploy to
Made a check list
Make the process easy as possible
Now, make it easy

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Infrastructure as Code
• Lowers cost of server administration
• Reliable deployments
• Code is the documentation
• Agility
• Continuous integration and deployment
• Development / Testing / Production

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Build Servers
• Automagical!
• Allows testing entire environments
• Statistics
• Does your job for you

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SoftLayer
Server
Bare Metal
Private Clouds
Virtual Servers
Public Clouds
Hybrid Clouds
?

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Make it happen
Take a deep breath
Turn your deployment into a checklist
Checkout new tools
Automate build process
Automate deployment process
Enjoy stress free deployments!

18. THE END