DevOps Theory vs. Practice: A Song of Ice and TireFire
A presentation at DevOps Days Dallas 2018 in in Dallas, TX, USA by Baruch Sadogursky
William Manning Baruch Sadogursky DevOps Theory vs. Practice A Song of Ice and Tire-Fire
Baruch Sadogursky Thought Leader, Disruptive Innovator Senior SRE Leader at Google Senior Software Engineer at Netflix SVP of Thoughts at Facebook Obviously better than you Disclaimer: absolutely none of the above is true. @jbaruch @williammanning jfrog.com/shownotes
William Manning Official Hiptech Translator Native proficiency in English and Bad English Fluent in Thought Leader gibberish Has a secret bunker for the robot apocalypse Professional Tinfoil Hat Haberdasher Disclaimer: absolutely none of the above is true. @jbaruch @williammanning jfrog.com/shownotes
Baruch, Thought Leader Away! @jbaruch @williammanning jfrog.com/shownotes
Everybody's software must be releasable at absolutely any time @jbaruch @williammanning jfrog.com/shownotes
Everyone must have 100% test automation @jbaruch @williammanning jfrog.com/shownotes
We do Continuous Security well. @jbaruch @williammanning jfrog.com/shownotes
Your greatest threat is an outage. Not an employee. @jbaruch @williammanning jfrog.com/shownotes
VMs are the enemy of DevOps. This is where you must focus your innovation. @jbaruch @williammanning jfrog.com/shownotes
You are a beautiful unique snowflake, as are your problems. No vendor could possibly understand them. @jbaruch @williammanning jfrog.com/shownotes
Our company is based in SF because that’s where the best engineers are. @jbaruch @williammanning jfrog.com/shownotes
THANK YOU! @jbaruch @williammanning jfrog.com/shownotes
Baruch Sadogursky Chief Sticker Officer @jbaruch @jbaruch @williammanning jfrog.com/shownotes
William Manning Senior Solutions Architect @williammanning @jbaruch @williammanning jfrog.com/shownotes
How did we get here? @jbaruch @williammanning jfrog.com/shownotes
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Cargo Cult @jbaruch @williammanning jfrog.com/shownotes
Context Is Key @jbaruch @williammanning jfrog.com/shownotes
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Let’s talk maturity models @jbaruch @williammanning jfrog.com/shownotes
• “A maturity model is a tool that helps people assess the current effectiveness of a person or group and supports figuring out what capabilities they need to acquire next in order to improve their performance. In many circles maturity models have gained a bad reputation, but although they can easily be misused, in proper hands they can be helpful.” Introducing maturity models • Martin Fowler @jbaruch @williammanning jfrog.com/shownotes
• “A maturity model is a tool that helps people assess the current effectiveness of a person or group and supports figuring out what capabilities they need to acquire next in order to improve their performance. Introducing maturity models • In many circles maturity models have gained a bad reputation, but although they can easily be misused, in proper hands they can be helpful.” • Martin Fowler @jbaruch @williammanning jfrog.com/shownotes
Maturity model components Evaluation factors Scoring methodology Self assessment vs 3rd party assessment capability Progress tracking Visualization @jbaruch @williammanning jfrog.com/shownotes
Maturity Model Examples @jbaruch @williammanning jfrog.com/shownotes
Simple model @jbaruch @williammanning jfrog.com/shownotes
Progress planning Target Today @jbaruch In 2Q @williammanning jfrog.com/shownotes
Leader board Team B Team A Team C Team D Team E @jbaruch @williammanning jfrog.com/shownotes
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A different approach @jbaruch @williammanning jfrog.com/shownotes
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Define your factor weights @jbaruch @williammanning jfrog.com/shownotes
Account for different teams’ priorities @jbaruch @williammanning jfrog.com/shownotes
Model definition example System config as Code The infrastructure configuration is managed as code - e.g. no manual processes for configuring/setting up/ infrastructure. Differentiating: Infrastructure operates without any manual processes. All changes to the infrastructure or infrastructure capabilities are done through automation and policy only. Complete: Infrastructure operates without any manual processes. Some infrequent administrative activities may be initiated manually (although the activities themselves must be automated). Partial (Most): Infrastructure operates without any manual processes. Some infrequent administrative activities may be manual, pending automation. Partial (Much): Infrastructure operates with significant automation. Some processes still manual; pending automation. Partial (Some): Infrastructure requires significant care and feeding. Many processes still manual; pending automation. No Support: While some functions may be automated, they are generally kicked-off manually; and many functions are still fully manual. Large backlog of automation items. @jbaruch @williammanning jfrog.com/shownotes
Applying maturity models: DOs and DONT’s Only use primary colors Involve your teams in the model definition Let team self assess first and then assess together Partner with forward looking teams first Remember being at 100% is not a goal the model has to have a stretch goal Evolve the model from time to time And …. @jbaruch @williammanning jfrog.com/shownotes
Our message is: https://martinfowler.com/bliki/MaturityModel.html @jbaruch @williammanning jfrog.com/shownotes
Q&A and links • @jbaruch • @williammanning • https://jfrog.com/shownotes • • • • • The slides The video (tomorrow) All the links Ratings, comments Raffle @jbaruch @williammanning jfrog.com/shownotes
Things that are not questions ● ● ● Your résumé Calling bullshit on the entire premise of the talk A long rambling story with no point @jbaruch @williammanning jfrog.com/shownotes
In many DevOps talks, you see a speaker from a renowned tech company stand up and describe a perfect utopia of an environment. You look at the perfect environment and dedicated hordes of senior engineers they describe, and you despair of ever getting to that point. Your environment looks nothing like that.
Surprise– their environment doesn’t really look like that either! In this talk, a speaker from an unnamed tech unicorn describes their amazing environment– and then what they just said gets translated from “thought leader” into plain English for you by an official translator. Stop feeling sad– everything is secretly terrible!
