Why DevOps And a few other uncomfortable.. things..

An entry level discussion with startups on when and why they should pick up devops and introduce better practices in their engineering workflows.

The slides have a lot of tongue in cheek, peppered with funny memes but the focus was getting a mentally exhausted audience to respond and kick up a discussion on how to approach devops.

Transcript

1. Why DevOps And a few other uncomfortable.. things.. Ashwin @ MemoryAI @cruisemaniac
2. $ whoami • Old school linux / sysadmin • <3 shell / UNIX • Cloud • IoT • Mail • DNS
3. You have ONE Goal!
4. Make your customers say
6. How do you make ‘em?
7. • You code it • You package it • You put it in a box
8. And then comes traffic
10. You add features…
13. –Arthur C Clarke “any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic”
15. Reliable
16. Repeatable
17. Observable
19. Reliability • Hard wall - Push vs Hold • Measuring everything is key • Bite into the tooling • Up tempo, shrink volume • SHIFT LEFT
21. Repeatability • Idempotency is key • Enhance traceability • QA Everything • Reduce moving parts • SHIFT LEFT
22. Observability
23. Observability contd… • Contextual Insight is key • More data <<< more information • Visualize to understand patterns • Theorize, verify and fix behaviour • SHIFT LEFT
24. When sh*t -> fan… • Stack trace / Memory Dump • Application Logs • System metrics • Code / deployment / change management delta • Communication
25. Stages in the DevOps toolchain—by Kharnagy
26. Plan • JIRA • Pivotal Tracker • Clubhouse • Planning Poker
27. Create • IDEs and Developer Tools • Shared Libraries • Language Ecosystems • Processes
28. Verify • CI/CD • CircleCI • Travis • Linting
29. Package • maven • jfrog • rubygems • docker
30. Release • Docker Swarm / Fargate / K8s • Puppet • Ansible • Chef
31. Configure • Terraform • Ansible • Chef • Puppet
32. Monitor • NewRelic • Pagerduty • Datadog • Prometheus
34. Recap // Learn • Invest in Tools • Infra cost per user • Roll forward / Roll backward
35. Recap // Learn… • Automate • Visualize • Infer and close the loop
36. Recap // Learn… • Cool is not fun! • Boring brings the money • I need