Chris Parlette maintains that renting infrastructure on demand is the most disruptive trend in IT in decades. In 2016, enterprises spent $23B on public cloud IaaS services. By 2020, that figure is expected to reach $65B. The public cloud is now used like a utility, and like any utility, there is waste. Who's responsible for optimizing the infrastructure and reducing wasted expenses? It’s DevOps. The excess expense, known as cloud waste, comprises several interrelated problems: services running when they don't need to be, improperly sized infrastructure, orphaned resources, and shadow IT. There are a few core tenets of DevOps—holistic thinking, no silos, rapid useful feedback, and automation—that can be applied to reducing your cloud waste. Join Chris to learn why you should include continuous cost optimization in your DevOps processes. Automate cost control, reduce your cloud expenses, and make your life easier.

1. DT8
Concurrent Session
11/9/17 3:00 PM
Eliminate Cloud Waste with a Holistic
DevOps Strategy
Presented by:
Chris Parlette
ParkMyCLoud
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2. Chris Parlette
ParkMyCLoud
Director of cloud solutions at ParkMyCloud Chris Parlette helps customers reduce
their cloud waste and manage their hybrid infrastructures by drawing on his
years of experience working at various software start-ups. From SaaS to on-
premise, virtualization to cloud, monitoring tools to cloud management
platforms, and small businesses to large enterprises, Chris has seen it all and
loves helping drive improvements to IT management. Follow Chris on Twitter at
@cparlette, email him at cparlette@parkmycloud.com, and learn more about
ParkMyCloud.

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Eliminate Cloud Waste with
a Holistic DevOps Strategy
Chris Parlette
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Chris
Parlette
Director of Cloud Solutions
ParkMyCloud
Email: cparlette@parkmycloud.com
Twitter: @cparlette
Instagram: @cparlette
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/
cparlette
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What we’ll cover
● State of the cloud
● What is “cloud waste”?
● What is DevOps?
● How DevOps processes can reduce cloud waste
● Utilizing Continuous Cost Control
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State of the Cloud
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History of the Cloud
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1. Deploy a physical server
2. Use virtualization for multiple VMs on one piece of
hardware
3. Rent server space on someone else’s hardware
Total Cloud Spend (in billions)
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2016 2020
Total Spend $219.6 $411.4
Advertising $90.3 $151.1
SaaS $48.2 $99.7
BPaaS $39.6 $53.6
IaaS $25.4 $72.4
PaaS $9.0 $20.8
Management & Security $7.1 $13.9

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Percent of Total Cloud Spend
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2016 2020
Total Spend $219.6B $411.4B
Advertising 41.12% 36.73%
SaaS 21.95% 24.23%
BPaaS 18.03% 13.03%
IaaS 11.57% 17.60%
PaaS 4.10% 5.06%
Management & Security 3.23% 3.38%
IaaS Spend
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2016: $25 billion total spend
2017: $34.25 billion projected spend (based on 36.8% increase over
2016)
2020: Expected to reach $71.5 billion
https://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/3616417

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What is “cloud waste”?
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Forms of Cloud Waste
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● Non-production resources running when not in use
○ 44% of workloads are classified as non-production (test, development,
staging, QA) and don’t need to run 24x7
● Orphaned storage volumes and old snapshots
○ 7% of cloud spend is on unused storage
● Oversized resources
○ 55% of all public cloud resources are not correctly sized for their
workloads
● Duplicate and EOL resources
○ 15% of cloud spend is resources which are no longer used

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Growing Cloud Waste
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$17B
Cloud
Waste
$6B
Cloud
Waste
$71B
Cloud
Spend
$25B
Cloud
Spend
2016
2020
What is DevOps?
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Common DevOps Tenants
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● Holistic thinking
● Eliminate silos
● Feedback
● Automation
Holistic Thinking
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● Think about the entire business, not just your team
● Utilize a variety of approaches to a problem
● Balance long-term and short-term goals
● Use all tools at your disposal

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Eliminate Silos
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● Access is not limited to one person
● Involve multiple team members for a variety in perspectives
● Make knowledge accessible to all
● Ensure that your task is not making someone else’s task harder
Feedback
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● Monitoring and alerting is critical
● Test-driven development
● Errors should be descriptive enough to be actionable
● Open team communication

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Automation
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● Not just scripting
● Eliminate human error
● “Tagging is life”
● Break down larger tasks into smaller automated pieces
How DevOps processes can reduce
cloud waste
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High-level Goals
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● Think and act for the business, not your department
● Involve everyone in cost optimization measures
● Keep visibility high
● Automate cost savings
● Department-based reporting
DevOps + Cloud = Reduced Waste
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● Holistic Thinking
○ Cross-department use of resources
○ Consider PaaS or SaaS instead of IaaS
● Eliminate Silos
○ Make cost reports available to all
○ Reuse resources when appropriate
● Feedback
○ Report on current spending
○ Alert when costs exceed expectations
● Automation
○ Automate right-sizing
○ Scheduled shutdown of unused resources

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Utilizing Continuous Cost Control
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CI/CD -> CCC
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● Minor tweaks to your automated services can save money
● Costs should be a controlled factor, not a result
● Regularly revisit past decisions and outputs
● Sustainability is important for continuous delivery

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What this looks like in an Enterprise
● Code
○ Shut down instances when not working on them
● Build
○ Automated tools for minimal footprint
● Test
○ Use spot instances for optimal costs
● Deploy
○ Use Reserved Instances for lower price
● Operate
○ Auto Scaling Groups for elasticity
● Monitor
○ Track utilization to ensure proper instance sizes
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Thank you!
Chris Parlette
Director of Cloud Solutions
ParkMyCloud
Email: cparlette@parkmycloud.com
Twitter: @cparlette
Instagram: @cparlette
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/
cparlette
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