Managing Complexity at Velocity
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The document discusses how organizations can leverage Chef to manage complexity and enhance their software delivery processes. It emphasizes automation, continuous integration, and workflow visibility as key factors for achieving efficiency and compliance across various platforms. The ultimate goal is to enable high-velocity development cycles while maintaining security and manageability in both new and legacy applications.
Managing Complexity at Velocity
- 1. Managing Complexity at Velocity Matt Ray, David Echols
- 2. Our Vision the most enduring and transformative companies use Chef to become fast, efficient, and innovative software driven organizations
- 3. The Promise Of The Coded Business Velocity Consistency Scale Feedback
- 4. What is Stopping Us?
- 5. Ideas/Business Objectives The Enterprise Challenge Platform Services (CD/Automation/…) LOB LOB LOB Legacy Shared ServicesCloud/PaaS LOBLOB Security / Compliance
- 6. Ideas/Business Objectives The Enterprise Challenge Platform Services (CD/Automation/…) LOB LOB LOB Legacy Shared ServicesCloud/PaaS LOBLOB Security / Compliance
- 7. cloud & IaaS OS bare metal virtualization Infrastructure Runtime grid PaaS containers & discovery Applications Complexity Budget: ● Pick (at least) one from each layer ● Write your application to it ● Let that be 100% complexity ● Automate all of it; let that be 100% of the original complexity ● Add an additional 50% for emergent conditions you hadn’t thought of yet The Looming Complexity Crisis Automation By Side Effect
- 8. • Scale and services unlock ability to move faster • Cloud is not inherently more reliable • Operate with assumption of ephemeral infrastructure • Easier to re-deploy and move ahead than to solve for root-cause of failures Cloud Brings Further Complexity
- 9. How do Humans Manage This Complexity?
- 10. Platform CultureWorkflow How Do Humans Manage This Complexity?
- 11. Infrastructure Automation Application Automation Compliance Automation Workflow Visibility Compliance Platform: Chef Automate
- 12. Chef: Infrastructure automation and delivery at scale ● Manages deployment and on-going automation ● Define reusable resources and infrastructure state as code ● Scale elegantly from one to tens of thousands of managed nodes across multiple complex environments ● Community, Certified Partner, & Chef supported content available for all common automation tasks
- 13. InSpec: Turn security and compliance into code • Translate compliance into Code • Clearly express statements of policy • Move risk to build/test from runtime • Find issues early • Write code quickly • Run code anywhere • Inspect machines, data and APIs A simple example of an InSpec CIS rule Part of a process of continuous compliance Scan for Compliance Build & Test Locally Build & Test CI/CD Remediate Verify
- 14. Habitat: Automation that travels with the app • Ease the burden of managing microservice apps and bring benefits of apps architected for microservices to legacy applications –Gain consistent management of new and legacy applications across lifecycle –Provides application portability for new and legacy apps –Autonomous nodes self-manage runtime state of application based upon policy you define –APIs expose application behaviors as data for better management • Works in tandem with infrastructure automation • Makes applications running on containers, PaaS, virtual machines, bare metal, … better
- 15. Visibility: Real-time data collection and analysis • Search, analyze, audit, and report on workflow processes and environment behaviors –multiple Chef Servers –Chef Solo –InSpec –Chef Compliance –Habitat –Chef Automate Workflow •Better manage ephemeral, long-lived, and large federated environments •Easily export data to 3rd party analytic platforms and event notification systems
- 16. Platform CultureWorkflow How Do Humans Manage This Complexity?
- 17. Workflow: Continuous delivery of any code • Improve collaboration across infrastructure & applications – Cross-team productivity enhanced by consistent overall pipeline shape – Specific teams given flexibility to configure pipeline automation specific to their app – Service dependencies across pipelines are easily mapped and tested –Stakeholder visibility keeps teams in the know and involved as needed –Robust governance ensures compliance controls are enforced
- 18. Chef Automate removes infrastructure as a speed bump Move at any speed the business requires safely and without breaking IT processes ● Build, deploy, and manage applications and infrastructure environments with one platform ● Gain consistency, security, and compliance across complex and any-size enterprise environments ● Collaboration, governance, and visibility across dev, security, compliance, and ops teams ● Improve productivity, reinforce the right organizational behaviors, and accelerate time from idea to shipment InfrastructureApps + Infrastructure Automation Application Automation Compliance Automation Workflow Visibility Compliance
- 19. Workflow CulturePlatform How Do Humans Manage This Complexity?
- 20. What every modern application team wants An Empowered Team ● Development and operations collaborating ● Ability to focus on doing the work rather than managing it ● Easy on-ramps to the modern application world High Velocity Development Cycle ● Time to market matters ● Repeatable and predictable ● Want to bring velocity to legacy applications along with new greenfield apps Tools That Simplify/Tame The Complexity ● Consistent app behavior ● Easy to port old and new to cloud ● Apps have autonomy to run anywhere Confidential & subject to NDA Modern application teams aren’t just developers and operations; they also include leadership, finance, security, marketing, sales, business people…
- 21. Technology & Process Current State Process Bliss Local Development Coding Practices The DevOps Journey Organization & Culture Current State Organizational Structure Data-Driven Decision Making Cultural Bliss Organizational Alignment Organizational Culture Continuous Integration Chef Code Deployment Application Deployment Virtualization as a Service Full Stack Automation Continuous Delivery
- 22. • Expect and embrace failures • Test Driven Infrastructure • Chaos Monkeys • Mean Time To Repair > Mean Time Between Failures Resilience over Strength
- 23. • Continuous Integration means continuously providing value • Small batch changes mean more safety, faster feedback • New technology is not slowing down Risk over Safety
- 24. Infrastructure Automation Application Automation Compliance Automation Workflow Visibility Compliance