What is DevOps and why should I care?

Why should you care about devops? Then, how to not mess it up once you do care.

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1. What Is DevOps & Why Should I Care? @MattRogish matt.rogish@gmail.com
2. About Me • Programmer (Ruby on Rails), DBA, CTO • Consultant • Founder • CTO RailsMachine.com / ReactiveOps
3. Do I Need Ops?
5. YES
6. YES*
11. How Not To Do It
12. Traditional Dev Handoff
15. The New Dev Operator?
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19. So What is DevOps?
20. The Ops Trinity Availability Performance Security Happy App Users
21. Matt Rogish “DevOps is a philosophical and cultural movement to transform Ops from a Cost Center to a Profit Center, acting as a force-multiplier for Product Development.”
22. What Does This Mean?
23. The New Ops Role • Provide tools and support to developers • Ops Trinity Evangelists • Infrastructure Experts
24. Tools and Support • Graphing, Logging, Display • Continuous Integration & 
 Deployment • Feature Flags, Reporting • Automation
25. Ops Trinity Evangelists • Availability • Performance • Security
26. Infrastructure Experts • DBAs • System Automation • Network Admins • Platform Admins
27. How to DevOp?
28. Who is your 007?
29. Starting Out • Create slack time for important improvement projects • Keep batch sizes small and the planning horizon short (e.g., weeks, not months) • Keep prioritizing higher “the system of work” over “doing work” • Need Redundancy to Avoid Burnout
30. Stuff to do while small • Lean All The Things • Automation in the Small • Make Informed Tradeoffs
31. While growing • Increase Test Confidence • Automate All The Things • Continuous Product
 Delivery
32. At Scale • Dedicated Ops Teams 
 or Outsource • Flexible Infrastructure • Lean UX, Lean DevOps 
 -> Lean Product
33. Tools of the Trade
34. Graphing, Stats • statsd, graphite • elasticsearch, logstash, kibana
35. Cloud Automation • terraform, packer • puppet, chef • ansible, salt
36. Cloud Infrastructure • Xen • OpenStack/CloudStack • Docker, CoreOS
38. How to DevOp? @MattRogish matt.rogish@gmail.com