Doing continuous delivery? Got nothing left to learn? Yeah right! The journey to continuous delivery (CD) is long, winding and always evolving. Come hear my stories, learn what worked and what didn't work for us and get some helpful tips! Originally presented at DevOpsDays Kansas City in October 2016 https://www.devopsdays.org/events/2016-kansascity/program/suzie-prince/

1. OUR CONTINUOUS
DELIVERY JOURNEY
Suzie Prince
ThoughtWorks

2. Define Continuous Delivery (CD)
Tell some stories about our journey to CD
Review learnings and share tips
WHAT I WILL COVER

3. Suzie Prince
Head of Product for
ThoughtWorks products group
Product Manager for Snap CI
10 + years experience in
software development including
agile and CD practices
Tweeting @pm_suzie

8. WHAT IS CD?

9. “Continuous Delivery is the ability to get
changes of all types—including new
features, configuration changes, bug
fixes and experiments—into production,
or into the hands of users, safely and
quickly in a sustainable way.”
- Jez Humble, continuousdelivery.com

10. “Continuous Delivery is the ability to get
changes of all types—including new
features, configuration changes, bug
fixes and experiments—into production,
or into the hands of users, safely and
quickly in a sustainable way.”
- Jez Humble, continuousdelivery.com

11. CONTINUOUS DELIVERY

16. RELEASE
RELEASE
RELEASE
RELEASE
YEAR

17. Commit Build and Test
Automated
Tests
Installer TestsStaging Deliver
User
Acceptance

18. Commit Build and Test
Automated
Tests
Installer TestsStaging Deliver
User
Acceptance

19. Commit Build and Test
Automated
Tests
Installer TestsStaging Deliver
User
Acceptance

20. Commit Build and Test
Automated
Tests
Installer TestsStaging Deliver
User
Acceptance

21. Commit Build and Test
Automated
Tests
Installer TestsStaging Deliver
User
Acceptance

22. Commit Build and Test
Automated
Tests
Installer TestsStaging Deliver
User
Acceptance

23. Commit Build and Test
Automated
Tests
Installer TestsStaging Deliver
User
Acceptance

24. Commit Build and Test
Automated
Tests
Installer TestsStaging Deliver
User
Acceptance

25. Commit Build and Test
Automated
Tests
Installer TestsStaging Deliver
User
Acceptance

26. 💁🍩

27. 💁🍩

28. 💁🍩

29. 💁🍩

30. RELEASE
YEAR
RELEASE
RELEASE
RELEASE

31. RELEASE
RELEASE
RELEASE
RELEASE
25% RELEASE TIME WAS
INSTALLER TESTING
YEAR

32. Commit Build and Test
Automated
Tests
Installer TestsStaging Deliver
User
Acceptance

33. Commit Build and Test
Automated
Tests
Installer TestsStaging Deliver
User
Acceptance

34. Commit Build and Test
Automated
Tests
Installer Tests Staging Deliver
User
Acceptance

35. Commit Build and Test
Automated
Tests
Staging Deliver
User
Acceptance
Commit Build and Test
Automated
Tests
Installer Tests Staging Deliver
User
Acceptance

36. Commit Build and Test
Automated
Tests
Staging Deliver
User
Acceptance
Commit Build and Test
Automated
Tests
Installer Tests Staging Deliver
User
Acceptance

37. Commit Build and Test
Automated
Tests
Staging Deliver
User
Acceptance
Commit Build and Test
Automated
Tests
Installer Tests Staging Deliver
User
Acceptance

38. Commit Build and Test
Automated
Tests
Staging Deliver
User
Acceptance
Commit Build and Test
Automated
Tests
Installer Tests Staging Deliver
User
Acceptance

39. Commit Build and Test
Automated
Tests
Installer Tests Staging Deliver
User
Acceptance

40. RELEASE
RELEASE
RELEASE
RELEASE
YEAR

41. RELEASE
RELEASE
RELEASE
RELEASE
<5% RELEASE TIME WAS
INSTALLER TESTING
YEAR

42. HIDDEN SILOS

43. Commit Build and Test
Automated
Tests
Installer Tests Staging Deliver
User
Acceptance

44. Commit Build and Test
Automated
Tests
Installer Tests Staging Deliver
User
Acceptance

45. OUR LEARNINGS
Automate, automate, automate
Look for hidden silos

49. Microservices
RabbitMQ
Nagios
Automated infrastructure
Deployment pipelines
Containers!

50. Microservices
RabbitMQ
Nagios
Automated infrastructure
Deployment pipelines
✔
Containers!

51. Microservices
RabbitMQ
Nagios
Automated infrastructure
Deployment pipelines
✔
✔
Containers!

52. Microservices
RabbitMQ
Nagios
Automated infrastructure
Deployment pipelines
✔
✔
✔
Containers!

53. Microservices
RabbitMQ
Nagios
Automated infrastructure
Deployment pipelines
✔
✔
✔
✔
Containers!

54. Microservices
RabbitMQ
Nagios
Automated infrastructure
Deployment pipelines
✔
✔
✔
✔
✔
Containers!

55. Microservices
RabbitMQ
Nagios
Automated infrastructure
Deployment pipelines
✔
✔
✔
✔
✔
Containers! ✔

56. Microservices
RabbitMQ
Nagios
Automated infrastructure
Deployment pipelines
GOOD JOB!
✔
✔
✔
✔
✔
Containers! ✔

57. “Continuous Delivery is the ability to get
changes of all types—including new
features, configuration changes, bug
fixes and experiments—into production,
or into the hands of users, safely and
quickly in a sustainable way.”
- Jez Humble, continuousdelivery.com

58. “Continuous Delivery is the ability to get
changes of all types—including new
features, configuration changes, bug
fixes and experiments—into production,
or into the hands of users, safely and
quickly in a sustainable way.”
- Jez Humble, continuousdelivery.com

59. “Continuous Delivery is the ability to get
changes of all types—including new
features, configuration changes, bug
fixes and experiments—into production,
or into the hands of users, safely and
quickly in a sustainable way.”
- Jez Humble, continuousdelivery.com

60. “Continuous Delivery is the ability to get
changes of all types—including new
features, configuration changes, bug
fixes and experiments—into production,
or into the hands of users, safely and
quickly in a sustainable way.”
- Jez Humble, continuousdelivery.com

61. “Continuous Delivery is the ability to get
changes of all types—including new
features, configuration changes, bug
fixes and experiments—into production,
or into the hands of users, safely and
quickly in a sustainable way.”
- Jez Humble, continuousdelivery.com

62. “Continuous Delivery is the ability to get
changes of all types—including new
features, configuration changes, bug
fixes and experiments—into production,
or into the hands of users, safely and
quickly in a sustainable way.”
- Jez Humble, continuousdelivery.com

63. Microservices
RabbitMQ
Nagios
Automated infrastructure
Deployment pipelines
GOOD JOB!
✔
✔
✔
✔
✔
Containers! ✔

64. Microservices

71. OUR LEARNINGS
Delivering value, not doing CD is your job
CD is a journey

72. TAKE AWAYS

74. 🍩 🍩🍩
🍩 🍩
🍩
🍩
🍩
🍩

76. 🍩

77. PRACTICE CONTINUOUS INTEGRATION

79. 🍩

80. FREQUENCY REDUCES DIFFICULTY

82. 🍩

83. DOING CONTINUOUS DELIVERY IS NOT YOUR JOB
GOOD JOB!

85. 🍩

86. INVOLVE THE WHOLE TEAM

88. 🍓

89. AUTOMATE EVERYTHING

90. CONTINUOUS DELIVERY IS A JOURNEY…
Keep your goals in mind
Look back and retrospect
Focus on what is not good now and improve that
Don’t be too critical
Don’t fear redesign, don’t fear rework

91. CONTINUOUS DELIVERY IS A JOURNEY…
Keep your goals in mind
Look back and retrospect
Focus on what is not good now and improve that
Don’t be too critical
Don’t fear redesign, don’t fear rework