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A DevOps Toolchain

There and back again

Eric Minickeric@urbancode.com@EricMinick

Blogs.urbancode.com

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Software Delivery in a Nutshell

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Apps: More important / More Complex

• More frequent changes• Lower tolerance for outages• More complex applications• More complex deployments

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Software Delivery in a Nutshell

This is broken

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Software Delivery in a Nutshell

Are we making more

money?

How’s the performance?

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Apps: More important / More Complex

• More frequent changes• Lower tolerance for outages• More complex applications• More complex deployments

• Need: Fix the Dev to Ops hand-off for speed / reliability, and deliver better visibility into production performance.

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That’s DevOps

Embrace faster change and manage risk by building a collaborative culture and automating like crazy

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Themes in DevOps Tooling

Shared tools

Lots of automation

Self service XaaS

Version everything

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Example impact on tools: Issue Trackers

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Example impact on tools: Issue Trackers

• Shared Tools: Within a project, have a common backlog for development and infrastructure tasks.

• Automation: Make sure you have APIs available to automatically create / migrate tickets based on tests, monitoring, deployments.

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DevOps Toolchains

Source http://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/19979

Dev Test Ops

Span silosIntegrate a collection of a task tool-chains

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Toolchain 1: Build

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Toolchain 2: Deployment

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Toolchain 3: Platform as a Service

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Toolchain 3: Platform as a Service

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Toolchain 4: Test on Deployment

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Toolchain 5: Continuous Delivery / Deploy

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Toolchain 6 – CD with Rollback

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Where does this get us?

Consistency

Tasks required to deliver tracked in one placeCI and “official builds” unifiedSame deployment tool for all environmentsSame infrastructure tool in all environments

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Where does this get us?

Efficiency

Less manual effortWe avoid reworkInformation is easier to findLess dependence on tribal knowledge

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Where does this get us?

Safety

Error prone manual processes minimizedDeployments of known versions

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Where does this get us?

Visibility

Deployments of known versionsInventory of what is whereAudit is easy

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Where to start?

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Audit what you have

• Where are the bottlenecks?

• Where are errors introduced?

• Where does the communication stink?

White Paper: Lean for build and deploy automation

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Agree on a Vision

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Begin replacing / Adding tools

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What’s Normal?

• Ensure at least “ok” build

• Work on the deployment / delivery tool chain

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Key Points

• Lots of tools– Build, Deploy, Provision, Config, Test, Monitoring– Multiple vendors: APIs &– Expect and manage overlap

• Share tools across silos

• Automate like crazy

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Urbancode Tools

• AnthillPro: Continuous Delivery

• uBuild, CodeStation, uDeploy, uProvision – More “tool-chainy”

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Other good DevOps tool chain resources

• Gartner: – DevOps

Toolchains Work to Deliver Integratable IT Process Management”

• Dev2Ops.org

http://dev2ops.org/blog/2012/7/23/integrating-devops-tools-into-a-service-delivery-platform-vi.html

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Urbancode References

http://urbancode.com/html/resources

• White Papers– Enterprise CD Maturity Model– Lean Build & Deployment Automation– Deployment Automation Basics

• Stay in touch:

Blogs.urbancode.comTwitter.com/UrbanCodeSoft Twitter.com/EricMinickSlideshare.net/Urbancode

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