Growing up your CD Endeavours

This is an experience sharing slide deck and presentation, highlighting key aspects and challenges faced, that took me down a path to mature a product that I used to co-develop with a team of wonderful and fun developers.

Transcript

1. GROWING UP YOUR CD ENDEAVOURS 1
2. … CONTINUOUS DELIVERY MATURITY (WHERE ARE YOU?) 2
3. … WHY DO YOU CARE? ▸ Why we do what we do? 3
4. … WHAT IS CONTINUOUS DELIVERY? ▸ Continuous Delivery is the ability to get changes of all types—including new features, con f i guration changes, bug f i xes and experiments—into production, or into the hands of users, safely and quickly in a sustainable way. ▸ Queuing theory ▸ Jez Humble book - mid/late 2012 4
5. … WHAT MAKES IT HARD? ▸ Conway’s Law: Organisational structure ==> Architecture ▸ Social boundaries of the organisation ▸ Technical / Architecture Recruitment, team roles, career path, etc 5 ▸ Recruitment, team roles, career path, etc
6. … FEATURE TEAM ADOPTION MAP
7. … FEATURE TEAM ADOPTION MAP
8. … HOW TO GROW? ▸ What business problem does your org have as an opportunity for you to use CD techniques to solve today? ▸ What is painful for you as a developer? ▸ Just talk. ▸ Development as knowledge growth. ▸ Learn so you see possibilities that gives you choices.
9. … WHAT WE TRIED? ▸ Business opportunity Jul/Aug 2014
10. … WHAT WE TRIED? ▸ Initial:
11. … WHAT WE TRIED? ▸ Automate:
12. … WHAT WE TRIED? ▸ Dockerise:
13. … I GOT BITTEN! WHAT DID I LEARN? ▸ Provisioning, Con f i guration Management, Release Management, Testing - what do I tackle f i rst? ▸ You will have to change your CI pipeline! ▸ Run tests in production mode if possible - you will change the way you write your tests! ▸ Ability to freeze environment where tests was run. Immutable and repeatable! ▸ Speed! Oh & did I forget to clean up after myself?
14. … WHAT’S NEXT? ▸ Monitoring -> Feedback from monitoring to feed/drive feature development / bug f i x ▸ Scaling the app ▸ docker-compose or kuberbetes? ▸ Cloud Native app packaging and deployment ▸ Helm + draft.sh, ▸ Metaparticle (Brendan Burns) ▸ Pulumi (Joe Duffy) ▸ Telepresence
15. … Q&A & AOB ▸ Know your environment, own your environment!
16. … GO LEARN SOMETHING ABOUT YOUR PRODUCT OPERATING ENVIRONMENT THAT YOU DON’T ALREADY KNOW TODAY!