You don't need a DevOps to "be DevOps"

A bit of my personal experience on working in environments with:
- No DevOps people or mindset
- DevOps people
- DevOps mindset

Transcript

1. You don’t need a
   DevOps to “be DevOps”
   Filipe Freire

   DevOps Porto #7 - 3 August 2017
   

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2. Quick intro
   About Me:
   Husband, Tester, Developer, Gamer, Learner,
   Hard-worker
   Experience:
   • <2y as Test Engineer
   • 1y as Developer
   Currently work @
   

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3. Disclaimer
   I’m no expert:
   I’ll give you a
   personal account
   

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4. Before DevOps
   You have
   to be
   like this
   

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5. Before DevOps
   Big focus on Small picture: 

   development over process
   No automation or deployment pipeline and tools:
   - Alerts & monitoring? Nope.

   

   - Dependency management? Maybe for vendor stuff
   

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6. Before DevOps
   Integration?
   Infrastructure? (examples)
   - Maintaining physical and virtual machines

   

   - Virtualization? Containers?

   

   - Going to the server room. Hard drives burning.
   

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7. Before DevOps
   Thing is… we had good tech & tools.
   But,
   We didn’t pay attention to the process itself.
   Why? Individual effort & projects.
   

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8. Having a DevOps person
   

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9. Having a DevOps person
   Things start too change.
   - Good deployment & integration pipelines

   

   - Containers everywhere!!

   

   - Infrastructure? No worries (AWS, Azure, etc)

   

   - Feedback! Monitoring! (& Amazing Ops people).
   

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10. Having a DevOps person
    Perfection? Nope.
    “It’s the DevOps fault/problem, not ours”

    

    “It’s the programmers fault”

    

    “Pipeline? Only the DevOps know that magic”

    

    “I need a release/deploy, how do I do it?”

    

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11. Having a team with DevOps
    mindset
    

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12. Having a team with DevOps
    mindset
    Here I had an internal clash:

    How’s it possible? No DevOps person?
    Now it’s the team’s problem.
    Everyone knows the pipelines and the process.
    Ops are transparent: Anyone can dissect issues.
    

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13. Quick Learnings
    You still need experts!
    Critics:

    - More stuff to handle, more stress…

    

    - Developers in sync & w/ mindset but…

    does “management” keep the pace?

    

    - You can have all the greatest tech but…

    

    Lack of vision and process: all is in vain.
    

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14. Future improvements
    Finding Balance. 

    Improvement is not guaranteed always.
    No matter the approach: 

    You need skilled but solid & brave team-players.
    Same applies for management people.
    

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