DevOps Traction

Why is nothing you try working? What can you do in your legacy, siloed org? What can you do to actually make some progress?

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1. DevOps Traction
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2. Ok, so nobody has handed
   you a DevOps utopia
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3. Change vs. Stability
   Sharing
   Measurement
   Easy Wins
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4. Local change + holistic view
   is powerful
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5. Change vs. Stability
   Don't get burned.
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6. Is your company ready?
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7. Some orgs just don't see themselves
   as software companies yet
   That's ok.
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8. Do you know your company mission statement?
   Do you know your bosses key performance
   indicators?
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9. Influence is about incentive.
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10. The Golden Rule is a bit shit.
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11. Live the Platinum Rule.
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    Do to others as they would do to
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12. Know thy audience
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13. Know thyself
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14. Beware DevOps
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15. Beware DevOps
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    You don't have to call it DevOps

    Avoid misunderstanding and assumptions
    

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16. Beware DevOps
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    Target your messaging, address incrementally:
    continuous integration
    team onboarding
    deployment automation
    chatops
    centralized logging
    

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17. Sharing and Measurement
    The tricks of the trade
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18. Nothing happens without
    sharing
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19. Do start with: Why
    Don’t start with: I want
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20. Form a guild
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21. Measurement
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    Value stream mapping
    Change Stabilization Validation Release
    

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    Code Commit Test Env
    The pipeline
    Production
    

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    The whole #!
    

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25. Find your gaps
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26. Change something
    hypothesize, share, measure, share, implement, share, measure, share, repeat
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27. Low cost, high ROI
    The tools of the trade
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28. Whiteboard / Post-it notes - map your value stream, try out kanban or just for visualization
    
    Slack - no installation, no client, no money to build your guild
    
    StriderCD - npm installable CI server
    
    Vagrant/Boot2Docker - test infrastructure hypotheses, give staff a simple starting point
    
    Ansible - validate infrastructure, know your systems - agentless, use your own account
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29. The holy grail - continuous
    awesome
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30. Thanks
    j.mp/talkresources
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