Devs are from Mars, Ops are from Venus

Platform Architect

Cisco

November 23rd, 2014

#DevOpsDays

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A Little Bit About Me

• Maish Saidel-Keesing - @maishsk

• Blogger – Technodrone (http://technodrone.blogspot.com)

• Platform Architect – Cisco, Israel

• OpenStack Architecture Design GuideCo-Author of VMware vSphere Design

• vExpert, VCAP5-DCD/DCA blah blah blah …..

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“we are unique individuals with unique experiences”

― John Gray

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• DevOps.. DevOps everyone is talking about DevOps!!

• Just stuffing people in a scrum together doesn’t make it work.

• We are two different species

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Hacking a workaround that surprisingly works well

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Code

Writing Software

Getting Thing 1 to work with Thing 2

Devs care about

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Keeping the systems running

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Not getting too many alerts at 02:56

Things are stable

Standards

Everything is Green

Ops care about

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IDE

Simulators

Jenkins

SCM – git, svn

DB tools - SQLDeveloper, MongoVUE

Maven

Tools - Devs

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Not sure how, but it’s working

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Scripts

Infrastructure

Hardware

Servers

Storage

Switches

Tools - Ops

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New high end server arrived

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Sprints

Scrum

Release

Continuous Integration / Delivery

Kanban

Libraries

Terminology - Devs

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Sysadmins being introduced to Kanban

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Requirements (not what the software should do!)

Change Management

Availability

Support / Helpdesk

Terminology - Ops

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Redundancy

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Whatever the Sprint says it should be

It works!!

in Vagrant

in Devstack

on my laptop

Definition of Done - Devs

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Software is stable

Backup/restore works

Highly available

Monitoring with defined thresholds

Definition of Done - Ops

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Project handover

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Tétine (flickr)

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The two sides of XaaS: Development vs. What the world sees

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Links

@maishsk

My Blog – Technodrone

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