The self-service developer is one of my favorite concepts. It holds together the recent innovation in the container and CI/CD space and focuses on the developer experience of Cloud Native platforms.

1. The self-service
developer
In pursuit of awesome developer experiences
Laszlo Fogas
@laszlocph

2. The self-service developer
● A developer who is able to perform all the common activities during the creation and
maintenance of his/her service.
● Without asking permission..
● or support.
● Easily, through simple tooling

3. Activities like
● Configure the runtime environment
● Provision the computing resources
● Define and configure the CI pipeline

4. Everybody wins
● Developers can experiment and launch new ideas without coordinating with other teams
/ departments
● Does this mean snowflakes that ops has to fix in the middle of the night?
● On the contrary!
● This is built by ops. For devs.
● So Ops people can focus on building platforms, resiliency etc, instead of supporting
developers
● Less constraints to navigate for managers

5. Not just for the Facebooks and Googles
● Recent innovation in the container space allows everyone to build these awesome
developer experiences in-house.
● Build your own Paas, like Heroku, but tailored for your own IT landscape

6. What are these innovations?
● Configure the application runtime environment
=> DOCKER, Dockerfile is versioned with your application code
● Provision the computing resources of a new service
=> Container orchestration, like Kubernetes
● Define and configure the CI pipeline of the app
=> Pipeline as code, versioned together with your application code

7. Elements of control
● Dockerfile
● Yaml service definitions for Kubernetes
○ Deployment
○ Service
○ Ingress
● Pipeline as code
⇒ Show me the code
⇒ Let’s deploy it on a K8s cluster.. and change a few things

8. Recap
Configure the runtime environment (Dockerfile)
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Provision the computing resources (Container orhestration)
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Define the CI pipeline (Pipeline as Code)
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In simple Yaml files
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All in version control
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You are in control
You know.. for speed. And profit!