CloudOps Summit 2013, Frankfurt, 25.09.2013 Track 3 - DevOps by Robert Michel, IBM Deutschland

1. Agile, ITITL, Cloud
How DevOps brings it all together
Robert Michel
+49 (0)170 6347249
michel@de.ibm.com

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Agenda
• DevOps
– Challenges
– Principles
– Solution
• Q&A

3. Collaborative Development &
Operations
Delivery challenges &Typical root causes

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Why do we need DevOps? – 2 Examples
Customer 1 Customer 2
Situation
• Complex J2E environment
• Many interdependent components
• New release every 1-2 months
Challenges
• Change window on weekend too short
• Each production deployment fails and
takes 1 week to get it running
• Different deployment approaches:
• Test: fresh install
• Production: upgrade install
Situation
• 5+ test environments with
• Different OS versions
• Different platforms (Linux, AIX)
• Different J2E versions
Challenges
• Time consuming defect determination
• Performance test takes 2 months
• No production relevant test results
• Can’t test N-1

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Typical question within complex IT-Organisations
• We are using agile development practices. Why does it still take months to
release new applications?
• Why is there so much rework to do for every new release?
• Virtualization and Cloud are part of our infrastructure. Why does it still take
so much time to provide a proper test environment?
• Why do we still have significant quality issues despite our testing guidelines
and processes?

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Code BuildRequirements
Reasons for issues
Design
Deploy Test
Change & Configuration Management
Deploy Test
Deploy Test
Deploy Test
System Test
Integration Test
Acceptance Test
Component Test
Production
• Staging and Testing require time and
resources
• Approx. 1/3 to 2/3 of time is spent for
setup and configuration
• Often different processes are used
• No consistent Configuration
Management throughout different
environments
• Knowledge kept within few individuals

7. Collaborative Development &
Operations
Agile development and DevOps
DevOps principles

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People
Process
Information
DevOps Principles & Values
• Collaborate across disciplines
• Develop and test against a production-
like system
• Deploy frequently using repeatable
and reliable processes
• Continuously validate operational
quality characteristics

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Continuous Feedback
 “Shift-Left” – shifting operational
concerns and processes earlier in
the development lifecycle
 Collaborate on the creation of
reusable test environment patterns
 Common tools for planning,
tracking, and reporting application
and infrastructure changes
IMPACT
Predictable and accelerated software delivery
optimized around a production-like delivery pipe
Takes minutes / hours to deliver changes versus
weeks/months
Agile
Dev
Design
Prioritize
Build
Test
Agile
OpsTest
Monitor
Publish
Deploy
Collaboration between Development & Operation

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Delivery Pipeline
Code Build
Requirement
Management
DevOps Focus – Delivery Pipeline
Design Deploy Test
Change & Configuration Management
• Complete Automation based on results of the previous
steps
• Sourcecode
• „Infrastructure as Code“
• Patterns
• Platform Configuration
• Build Definitions
• PackagingDeployment
Patterns
Configuration
Automation Delivery
Pipeline

11. Collaborative Development &
Operations
Concepts and Solutions

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Build Automation Deployment Automation Test Automation
Standardized, repeatable and automated „Delivery Pipeline“
Release Automation
Continuous Integration of
source code Integrated Deployment Model Continuous Testing
Application ConfigurationEnvironment
Cloud = continuous provisioning and deprovisioning of test stages
dependent on application versions to test.
Artefact Repository
DevOps – Capability View

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DevOps – What do I need a Cloud for?
Layer Change Frequency
Application Config
Application
Middleware Config
Middleware
OS Config
OS
Hardware
Cloud Benefits
• Deploy often
• Control everything
• Recreate n-1 easily
• Provide standardized
deployment patterns
Cloud
Automation
Deployment
Automation

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ITILAgile
DevOps – Process View
OperateDevelop Test
OperateDevelop Test
Agile
ITIL
• Separation of duty in silos
• No end-2-end visibility
• Limited information exchange & process
interfaces
• Extend scope of agile principles and ITIL
processes
• Linked data vs. Integrated data &
processes
• Limited process changes necessary
• Restructured Roles & Responsibilities
(How do ITIL and Agile fit together?)

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Benefits
– Faster implementation of business requirements
• Shorter test cycles
• Keep up with the dynamic of agile development
– Higher software quality
– Cleaner transition from development to production
• repeatable
• automated
• auditable

16. Thank you!

17. Backup

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Line of
Business
DevOps – Related Themes and Tasks
Plan and Measure
Develop and Test
Release and Deploy
Monitor and Optimize

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Line of
Business
DevOps – Modular & Integrated Solutions
Rational Quality Manager
Rational Test Workbench
Rational Test Virtualization Server
SmartCloud Control Desk
SmartCloud
Application Performance Management
Rational Team Concert Jenkins
Rational Build Forge
uBuild
Rational Focal Point
Rational Requirements Composer

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Agile Development and DevOps
Functional
Testing
Acceptance
Testing
Production
Gap
Development
Code
Operations
Business
Services
Customers
Desire for fast
and continuous
innovation
Line of
Business
Requirements