Flip the Switch to Continuous Delivery

Let’s Talk Continuous Delivery

In under a decade, DevOps has risen from a fringe practice to a crucial discipline needed for reliable software delivery. While DevOps has increased the speed of software delivery broadly, the efficiencies gained have now hit a standstill for most.

By adopting automation and implementing Continuous Delivery (CD) within the production schedule,DevOps teams can release higherquality software more quickly.

Don’t believe us? Read on to see how top DevOps experts make this dream reality.

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Stephen ThairCo-Founder of DevOpsGuys

Marc Hornbeek Principal Consultant, DevOps for Trace3

Steve BrownDirector, DevOps

Solutions N.A. at Lenovo

JP MorgenthalCTO, Application Services,

DXC Technology

Jason HandAuthor of O'Reilly's

#ChatOps Book

Matthew WoollyOwner, Woolly Mammoth

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T. Devon ArtisWS Cloud Devops

Consultant at Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina

Daroga YadavDevOps Lead at Cognizant

Wesley SlussSenior DevOps Engineer

at FiscalNote, Inc

Nicole Forsgren, PhDCEO and Chief , DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA)

Mark StockerCo-Founder at Frontfive.io

Dominica DeGrandisDirector of Training & Coaching

@LeanKit

Costa GalaziosSr. DevOps Engineer at

Golden Frog, GmbH

13 of the Brightest DevOps Industry Experts Share Their Insight

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Marc Hornbeek Principal Consultant - DevOps for Trace3, and Author for The DevOps Institute

''“Enterprises implementing DevOps and Continuous Delivery pipelines are twice as likely to exceed their profitability, market share and productivity goals. Yet, just a small minority of enterprises are achieving this kind of performance. Many struggle to realize DevOps and CD at all.

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Steve BrownDirector, DevOps Solutions N.A. at Lenovo

''The faster an organization can deliver code end-to-end in the development processes, the faster they can get their product to market and satisfy customer demand. The results are lower operational costs and higher profitability. With effective tools, infrastructure and good collaboration, there are very few risks. An organization risks its future if delivery is not fast.

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Automation has played a major role in reducing low-value repetitive work, but the real value is driven from collaboration driving greater efficiency and effectiveness.''Stephen ThairCo-Founder of DevOpsGuys

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''JP MorgenthalCTO, Application Services, DXC Technology

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Fostering a culture of Continuous Delivery first requires that there be support and investment for Continual Improvement.

With regard to software development, this means being able to release to production in a stream-like fashion versus a rock-like manner. That is, Continuous Delivery should flow like a stream rather than make a ripple or thud as a rock dropping every so often.

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Jason HandAuthor of O'Reilly's #ChatOps Book and ChatOps For Dummies, Evangelist for VictorOps

''Focusing on providing CI/CD alone doesn't provide much value unless the organizational culture is setup to embrace it. Encouraging more collaboration, transparency, measuring as much as possible, as well as automation allows for conditions to exist where CI/CD efforts can emerge and be embraced.

Above all, Continuous “Improvement" should be the focus.

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Matthew WoollyOwner, Woolly Mammoth Limited

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''We are increasingly arriving at a time where Continuous Delivery is becoming the gold standard. Anyone without it is getting left behind.

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T. Devon ArtisWS Cloud Devops Consultant at Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina

''Continuous Delivery is a shift that touches the entire organization so before the shift can be made, there must be buy-in from the entire organization on what it means for them, the desired outcome, and how to measure.

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Wesley SlussSenior DevOps Engineer at FiscalNote, Inc

''To flip the switch requires a renaissance.

Not only will the architecture change, but so does the culture, collaboration of engineers, workflow, and approach to design. Those are often overlooked and are paramount to the survival of flipping the switch.

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Costa GalaziosSr. DevOps Engineer at Golden Frog, GmbH

''It's not so much flipping a switch as it is a metamorphosis; a paradigm shift in how an organization approaches the journey code takes from the developer's mind to a production environment.

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''To make the shift, developers must release code regularly and their environment must be reliable for daily production turn. Something like base code should be in all the environments so it can be in sync when the latest code is moved to production.

Daroga YadavDevOps Lead at Cognizant

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Nicole Forsgren, PhDCEO and Chief | DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA)

''Three things that are important to Continuous Delivery, regardless of the tooling your team chooses to use, are:

1. Comprehensive, fast, and reliable test and deployment automation2. Trunk-based development and continuous integration3. Application code and app and system configuration all in version

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DevOps and Continuous Delivery processes have a strong heritage from lean management practices.

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''CD is hard, and you will fail along the way. The balance of speed of change and experimentation with uncomfortable stakeholders with SLA's to maintain around uptime, stability and availability often brings some tough conversations and stakeholder management. Stick with it and measure success.

Mark StockerCo-Founder @ frontfive.io - the DevOps, Cloud Hosting and Continuous Delivery Experts

Mark StockerCo-Founder @ frontfive.io

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Dominica DeGrandisDirector of Training & Coaching @LeanKit

''Big change is hard. The bigger the change, the more things that can go wrong.

Fast feedback provides the benefit of discovering if what you're delivering is valuable or not. To remove roadblocks on your Continuous Delivery journey, go with small batch size.

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