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Transform The invisible WallMay Xu

Oct 2014

House of DevOps

People are

disturbed not by

things, but by the

view which they

take of them.

Epictetus

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Agenda

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Context

What is DevOps

Why adopt DevOps

Build the house of DevOps in 4 steps

The Journey

Summary

Context

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What is DevOps ?

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What is DevOps ?

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Environment: Laws, Regulations, Culture, Media …

People

Organization

Principle1.Self-directed team Over Command and Control2.Course correction over Perfection3.Automated over Manual

Team1.Respect2.Cross functional end-2-end delivery team3.Enable steady progress4.Share both the success and failures5.Continuous improvement

Practices1.Infrastructure as code2.Crystal dashboard: security3.Working backwards4.Open source 5.DevOps skill matrix6.Audit automation7.Self service8.And etc.

BUSINESS VALUEContinuously deliver customer value in a sustainable way with

improved lead time, resilience and quality

Why to adopt DevOps??

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Stay Relevant In The

Fast Changing World

Build your House of DevOps in Four steps

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a. Identify the goal

b. Understand the base

c. Develop the pillar

d. Keep iterating, continuous improving

The journey – Discover the business value

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The journey – Understand Environment and people

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The Sydney Morning Herald, July 18 2014

MIT Technology Review, June 12 2013

The journey – Understand the organization

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An organized group of people with a

particular purpose.

All organizations have a management structure that determines relationships between the

different activities and the members, and

subdivides and assigns roles, responsibilities and

authority to carry out tasks.

Organizations are open systems, they

affect and are affected by their

environment.

- From BusinessDictionary.com

Invisible – Fixed mindset vs. Growth Mindset

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Develop Organizational growth mindset

Enable steady progress each day

Safe to fail environment

Innovation-friendly working environment

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The journey – Pillar of Principle

Self Directed team over Command and Control

Course Correction over Perfection

Automation over Manual

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The journey – pillar of Team: PAST

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The journey – pillar of team: Desired

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The journey – pillar of Practices

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The journey – pillar of Practices:

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• DevOps Skill Matrix

The journey - business value

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Before After

End to End infrastructure provision

4-6 weeks 4 hours

Mean time to recover Manual Auto

Deployment Lead time 30 minutes or more 90% less than 10 minutes

Infrastructure testing Manual Auto

Infrastructure security patching

Manual Auto

Environment consistency

No Yes

Here IS what I’d like Help on

Access Control

Open Source

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THANK YOU

May Xu

mxu@thoughtworks.com

twitter: @may_ping_xu

May Xu

mxu@thoughtworks.com

twitter: @may_ping_xu