Perspectives on Continuous Integration at Scale by Hrishikesh K & Vinaya Muralidharan

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Perspectives on Continuous Integration at Scale

Hrishikesh Karekar @hrishikarekarVinaya Muralidharan @vinaya1980August 2016

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About us

DELIVERY CTO ORGANIZATION CHANGE MANAGEMENT

Promoting the best ways to deliver software

EXPERTISE

Hrishi Vinaya


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Our track record is unmatchedTRACK RECORD

30+ YEARS OF EXPERIENCE250 CUSTOMERSAN OVER 95% SUCCESS RATE5000+ DELIVERY EXPERTS

120 PROJECTS RUNNING IN PARALLEL IN THE LAST YEAR

161 PROJECTS INTO PRODUCTION ACROSS 46 CUSTOMERS IN THE LAST YEAR



Projects @ Amdocs Delivery

Delivery

SI&O

CBG

PBGDISTRIBUTED SITES

MEGA TRANSFORMATIONS

MULTIPLE RELEASE TRAINS | SAFe

What does Scale mean to you?


Our Operating Environment



Amdocs CES



Technology

Service Delivery

Not Product Development

Integration Challenges

Multi Product – Multi Technology – Multi Team

Legacy Infrastructure

Source control, Build Systems

Code works on my machine

Traditional Automation

Record and Play

We are Unique

Array of homegrown tools & standards

Build is a big event

Takes days



Process

Large transformation projects

Upfront planning due to multi-vendor environment



People

Super specialization

Products

Competency Centers

No Scrum teams



Where are we today

EnvironmentsTime to clone environment

reduced due to EaaS

90%

13 days

Build Time

8 Hrs

4 Hrs

Build Running every

13

Weeks NightsGoal

Monthly ability to deliver working software to UAT With major scope

Compilation no longer a blocker


Crafting a New Reality



The Continuous Delivery Maturity Modelrepresentative

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http://www.infoq.com/articles/Continuous-Delivery-Maturity-Model

http://www.infoq.com/articles/Continuous-Delivery-Maturity-Model

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Starting to modernize



TechnologyTechnical debt• Measured and

managed

Modern Version Control system

Inverting the Test Automation pyramid• UT automation• Safety net for

refactoring

Development Environment cloning• Deploy portfolio

integrated build

Simplified build order and dependency management • Modular builds

Moving from imperative to declarative

Artifact management



Process

Lean and visual documentation

Code Inspection approach• Lightweight and relevant

UT Defect logging• Left to the teams

Software packages delivered more

frequently

Frequent check-ins• Several times a day

Stop the line



People

Developer viewed as craftsman

Developer engagement• Gamification

Improving developer productivity

Quality is everybody’s responsibility

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Continuous Integration

Commit Code

Code Metrics

Deployment

Artifacts Repository

Environment As A Service

Build

Test

Security

Database

Version Control

Orchestrator & CI Server

System working

Notify on Error

Fetch

EDGE OF INNOVATION



Our learnings

Daily check

ins are a must

Gamification Workshops

STOP the line

is critical

CI Useless without

automation

One team

cannot go CI

Don’t alienate middle

management

UT automati

on targets don’t work

Rely more on

build, not Hot Fixes

Focus on clean code will

go a long way

Sustain

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Solution Book

on site

2013Setting the Basic

foundation

2014The year of

Continuous integration

2015The year of

Agile in Scale

2016The year of

Technology Excitement

2017-18Continuous

Delivery

Assessment

Laying the Foundation

Stabilization

Optimization & leap forward

Continuous Improvement

1 2 3 4 5Improved Speed

to MarketContinuous

Integration & DeliveryStability Faster & Easier Breaking Down Silos

Our roadmapEDGE OF INNOVATION


Questions ?


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