Deploying Straight to Production: A guide to the Holy Grail

You've toiled hard on your code, tested it locally, and you're confident it's ready to go. But how long until you see it in production? For some teams, it can be months or even years. By the time your new feature or bug fix gets used in anger, you've forgotten what you did! But with a great deployment pipeline and some clever architecture, there's a better way.

This session is packed with war stories and real world successes. We'll walk through the realities of a no-touch deployment pipeline that you can trust all the way to production, and we'll examine some clever architectural patterns to enable true software agility. By the end, you'll be convinced that if it's not in production, it doesn't count.

You can watch a recording of this talk at http://brdy.in/NDCProd

Transcript

1. Deploying Straight to Production A guide to the holy grail Damian Brady @damovisa #KCDC16
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5. TITANIUM SPONSORS Platinum Sponsors Gold Sponsors
6. Is this guy really going to tell us to deploy straight to production? No Yes ?
7. OH NO PLEASE NO
8. Pipelines Production? AGENDA
9. @damovisa | #KCDC16 Continuous Delivery Continuous Integration Continuous Deployment merge, build, test ready to deploy automatically deployed TERMINOLOGY
10. @damovisa | #KCDC16 Continuous Delivery Continuous Integration Continuous Deployment merge, build, test ready to deploy automatically deployed TERMINOLOGY
11. Uhhh, wait a second…
12. The Pipeline
13. @damovisa | #KCDC16 THE PIPELINE
14. @damovisa | #KCDC16 A pipeline is about automation THE PIPELINE
15. @damovisa | #KCDC16 THE PIPELINE A pipeline is about automation
16. @damovisa | #KCDC16 A pipeline is about automation THE PIPELINE
17. @damovisa | #KCDC16 BUILD Does it merge? Does it compile? TEST Do our tests pass? DEPLOY + TEST Do the tests still pass? Does the UI work? Can we talk to our DB? PRODUCTION I might buy a yacht. A pipeline is about testing THE PIPELINE Did our deployment work?
18. @damovisa | #KCDC16 BUILD Does it merge? Does it compile? TEST Do our tests pass? PRODUCTION I might buy a yacht. A pipeline is about testing THE PIPELINE DEPLOY + TEST Do the tests still pass? Does the UI work? Can we talk to our DB? Did our deployment work?
19. DevOps is not a new silo
20. DEMO
21. Back in the real world…
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23. @damovisa | #KCDC16 Feature Branching Feature Flags in-progress features don’t go all the way to production everything goes to production, but in-progress features are invisible PRODUCTION?
24. @damovisa | #KCDC16 Deployment Release Launch the artifacts and deployment steps that define a version putting a release in an environment giving a change to the users TERMINOLOGY
25. Deploying a Release is a technical event A Launch is a business event
26. @damovisa | #KCDC16 Build and Test Deploy to … FEATURE FLAG PIPELINE Deploy to Prod Test features Launch
27. @damovisa | #KCDC16 Build and Test Deploy to … FEATURE FLAG PIPELINE Deploy to Prod Test features Launch
28. @damovisa | #KCDC16 BENEFITS Pipeline provides a filter Separates the Launch from the Deployment Test in Production!
29. DEMO
30. @damovisa | #KCDC16 BUT WHAT ABOUT… One-way changes Branch by Abstraction Transitional Deployments Technical Debt give yourself a way back resolve dependencies based on feature flags clean up after yourself
31. @damovisa | #KCDC16 + + = Everything. Yes, everything. Automation 01 Stop the bad from getting to Production Testing 02 Separate Deployment from Release Test in Production! Feature Flags 03 A white yacht please. Success TAKEAWAYS
32. www.damianbrady.com.au THANK YOU @damovisa http://brdy.in/NDCProd