EvansData_DevRel_2016-DevOps

Editor's Notes

• #6: A trusted brand, VMware enables Fortune 1000 organizations, small to mid-size businesses, public sector and commercial businesses to push boundaries and ensure enterprise integrity. Starting with our founding and first virtualization product, here are some of the highlights of VMware investment and technology innovation since the company’s inception.
• #7: VMware continues to deliver award-winning technology and services – and be a great place to work. More than 300 industry accolades and awards have recognized VMware’s innovation and strategic excellence. A more complete list of product, company, and executive awards garnered since 1999 is available on www.vmware.com - under the company tab (http://www.vmware.com/company/news/media-resources/awards.html).
• #8: VMware’s One Cloud, Any Application, Any Device™ architecture for IT is built on the Software-Defined Data Center, which fully automates the virtualized infrastructure of compute, storage, networking, and security, and seamlessly extends it to the cloud. This architecture helps organizations realize unified hybrid cloud and fully enable business mobility. Unified Hybrid Cloud Our unified hybrid cloud platform helps customers focus less on infrastructure and more on innovation. We enable companies to innovate like a startup and deliver like an enterprise by ensuring businesses can: Innovate faster to stimulate growth and drive competitive advantage Create engaging experiences to amaze customers and empower employees Maintain business and customer trust by meeting the demands of the organization while protecting data, brand, and reputation. Built on our industry-leading Software-Defined Data Center solutions, our approach delivers customer value via a unified platform, defined in software, that unites on-premises and public clouds with the open management capabilities needed to enable the rapid development, automatic deployment, and secure consumption of any application, anywhere.   Business Mobility Our solutions drive customer intimacy and workforce productivity in a mobile-centric world by providing flexibility for end users to move seamlessly and securely between the devices and applications they need to do their work while keeping IT in control. IT organizations must take the lead in transforming desktops, driving Bring Your Own (BYO) initiatives, ensuring secure, mobility management, and creating business process innovation. Our comprehensive business mobility portfolio enables customers to innovate business processes and operations that embrace mobile and cloud to streamline work and create new ways to engage with customers. They also enable organizations to flexibly deliver any application to any device with security and management that’s simple and unified.
• #9: VMware is uniquely qualified to help IT organizations meet—and exceed—business expectations. Relying on our software-defined approach to data center and cloud, teams can enable a brave new model of IT that is instant, fluid, and secure, empowering users to rapidly develop, automatically deliver, and safely consume all enterprise applications. From compute to networking, to storage and management, more and more customers are embracing VMware’s Software-Defined Data Center technology architecture and One Cloud, Any Application, Any Device IT architecture to realize unified hybrid cloud. VMware has more than 500,000 customers today. 99% of the Fortune 100 99.8% of the Fortune 500 99.7% of the Fortune 1000
• #27: Most experts agree DevOps is a big change / shift. Cultural, Procedural, Organizational, Business. Not just tools and tech
• #28: Dev teams bypassing corporate IT teams and building out their own IT infra
• #29: DevOps has been around for a long time. Here’s a blog from 2012 that shows DevOps in relation to Agile methodologies, Operations, and Lean principles.
• #30: DevOps fixes the deployment wall
• #32: Blending deployments into the dev process is a critical change.
• #33: “Continuous” everything. Continuous Delivery does not include automatic deployments; that’s continuous deployment. This requires trust and tightly integrated IT into the dev teams
• #34: DevOps is broad, sweeping changes.
• #36: CI / CD and DevOps enables breakthrough business performance, according to the survey results from the 2013 and 2014 State of DevOps Report. This report is based on the answers from 9,200 and 4,000 survey responses respectively. The benefits of DevOps are clear and impressive: High performers are more agile, they are more reliable and most of all they win in the market place.
• #40: We started looking at this problem about 15 months ago. Spent couple of quarters analyzing the problem areas and identifying what all we can do Once we identified the improvements, one of the options was to implement these changes to the existing processes and go big bang. However, this added substantial risk as it could impact our project delivery commitments. In addition, the results from some of these initiatives were questionable. So, we decided to create a Pilot Program – Identified 9 projects of Small to Medium size. Mainly requiring user interactions. We identified the initiatives in People, Process and Technology areas and established baselines across these. Mainly if we did these in traditional manner. When we measured the results across these categories – these were the improvements we saw.
• #41: This provided us biggest bang for our buck. Max benefits came due to people changes. We made org changes in the applications team as we structured teams in Bi Modal IT modal – We created a development team that is more risk averse, deals with System of Records e.g. Finance, AP, GL, ERP etc. and the other development team that can take more risk and deals more with System of Engagements – web, mobile, social, CRM etc. We did not change the hard line organization model between dev and ops teams – rather focused on getting dedicated resources allocated to sprints from multiple teams with BSA’s running as a ring leader To reduce the time it was taking to get to the right requirements, we plugged in our BSAs with the business users so that they can get plugged in upfront during conceptual discussions to understand the intent of what we are building rather than relaying in documents. With this BSA’s were able to lead to the teams during the sprints The results we achieved were: READ
• #42: End to end traceability matrix (requirements  defects  deployment  testing) Discretization and continuous requirements gathering and refinement Lean process model Connectivity with people, and require technology to automate the process Solve the last mile problem by automating the deployments and features ready to go into production We also spent bit of time transforming our QA processes. Lot of focus on business assurance vs Quality assurance QA testing Automation before projects go live
• #43: We need technology to achieve the process changes We looked at these five initiatives in the tech area: Used vRCS are a backbone to automate the requirements to feature deployment in prod. We will show a demo of how this works. This helped solve the ‘last mile’ problem Containerize the code for easy movement across environments Used service virtualization to expedite development and QA Used mobile apps where applicable. We are finding that using mobile apps expedites the feature delivery as dev is faster and change management is minimal. Not true dev ops Using Data lake for enabling self service of data and reports to free up the dev capacity. Not true dev ops
• #47: GO WHERE THEY GO. a significant proportion of the total developer population estimated at 18 million. Github – recently valued at $2bn by the Wall Street Journal – hosts repositories for Google, Microsoft, and Amazon, while Intel works closely with Instructables.
• #59: Consistent Tooling Same tool set between Dev & Ops Deployment Pipeline Automated Pipeline for full Deployment Lifecycle Developers Want: Frequent releases Meet business needs Small incremental changes Ops Want: Keep environments stable Reduce risk, infrequent releases Formal handover Pushed phased Releases Rolling releases – small to large environments
• #60: Continuous Integration to keep software working at all times More frequent releases Fewer bugs Bugs caught earlier Continuous Integration Requirements Check in regularly, at least a couple of times a day Create a comprehensive automated test suite Keep the build and test process short Manage your development workspace
• #62: Before I move on and talk about the VMware solution, let me give you some more industry data from Gartner. Here some highlights: DevOps practices are emerging among mainstream IT organizations and in fact at VMware we see every enterprise customer to have a DevOps initiative. Those initiatives are often ~ 5 % of the development projects and not more than 10%, but those projects typically have the highest business impact for example creating the online storefront for a retailer. Organizations are looking for a bi-modal approach i.e. an approach where different teams in apps and ops can move at different speeds to satisfy their respective agility needs By 2018, most projects will be agile The reason why I am excited about DevOps is that this is simply a superior approach to how we build and release applications today It is a lot faster It is less risky to operations Defects are found earlier, where it is easier and cheaper to fix them The impact to the business is a breakthrough gain in competitiveness and agility.