2. • Monthly – 1st Wednesday of every month
• Topic suggestion
• Case Studies
• Volunteer speakers
• Sponsorship
10 May 2014
Welcome to DevOps Meetup Cardiff
3. • James Smith - Co-Founder, DevOpsGuys
• Microsoft (arrrggghh) developer for over 15
years.
• Built eCommerce systems for Dell, Pizza
Hut, KFC, RA etc
• Trasaction over $150 million in revenue every
year.
• Love Belgian Trappist beers.
10 May 2014
Quick introduction
4. • Continuous Integration, Delivery, Deployment
• Infrastructure As Code
• Monitoring/ Metrics /Sharing
• Culture Change
10 May 2014
Possible Future Topics
7. “It's a movement of people who think it's time for
change in the IT industry - time to stop wasting
money, time to start delivering great software, and
building systems that scale and last.”
- Patrick Debios (@patrickdebois)
10 May 2014
From the founding father
8. • Better Software, Faster
• Pride in the Software You Build and Operate
• Ability to Identify, Respond and Improve Business Needs
10 May 2014
The Essence of DevOps
9. • Movement Comes from Open Source
• When Development and Operations Synergise
• Covers the *entire* Application LifeCycle
10 May 2014
The Essence of DevOps
16. The WHY of DevOps
DevOps Meetup – Cardiff
@TheOpsMgr
May 14
17. • Steve Thair - Co-Founder, DevOpsGuys
• Steve loves website operations and
managing high-performing WebOps
teams for major UK online brands.
• Originally from Perth, Australia
10 May 2014
Quick introduction
18. DevOps is an alternative model for the creation of
business value from the software development life-
cycle that encompasses a product-centric view
across the entire product life-cycle (from inception
to retirement) and recognises the value in close
collaboration, experimentation and rapid feedback.”
- http://blog.devopsguys.com/2014/04/16/devops-organic-versus-transformational-devops/
10 May 2014
A brief recap of “WHAT”…
23. Shadow IT 1
“Gartner predicts that in less
than three years, 35% of
enterprise IT expenditures will
happen outside of the corporate
IT budget.”
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9226415/The_Upside_of_Shadow_IT?pageN
umber=1
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24. Shadow IT 2
“Results of PricewaterhouseCoopers'
Digital IQ Survey indicate that at 100
of the companies PwC ranks as
"top performers," IT controls less
than 50% of corporate technology
expenditures.”
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9226415/The_Upside_of_Shadow_IT?pageN
umber=1
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25. 10 May 2014
#4: Rate of Change
http://www.stratabridge.com/2012/01/the-growth-control-paradox/rate-of-change-jack-welch/
26. Rates of Change – part two…
300 Deployments / Year
50-60 Deployments / Day
10+ Deployments / Day
Every 11.6 seconds
http://www.slideshare.net/grabnerandi/london-web-perfugperformancefocuseddevopsfeb2014
31. “An anti-pattern is a common response to a
recurring problem that is usually ineffective and risks
being highly counterproductive.”
- Wikipedia
10 May 2014
The Anti-Pattern
32. #1: DevOps is a Process
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33. #2: Agile = DevOps
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34. #3: The big rebrand
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35. 10 May 2014
#4: Yet another silo
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#5: The hostile takeover
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37. • Visible Ops Handbook (Gene Kim)
• The Phoenix Project (Gene Kim)
• Web Operations (Allspaw/Robbins)
• Continuous Delivery (Humble/Farley)
• Lean Startup (Eric Reis)
10 May 2014
Resources