This document discusses leveraging structured platforms for automation beyond ad-hoc methods. It mentions containerizing builds, continuous integration, continuous delivery practices using Concourse CI, canary deployments, creating visibility into operations, architecting for failure, and distributing decision making. It also emphasizes that durable communication is important and should be inclusive, transparent, and reliable.

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Beyond Ad-hoc Automation
Leveraging Structured Platforms
Bridget Kromhout

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Bridget Kromhout
lives:
Minneapolis,
Minnesota
works:
Pivotal
podcasts:
Arrested
DevOps
organizes:
devopsdays

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navigating infrastructure choices

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let’s talk
platforms…

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Previously, on Platform Tales…
Docker in Production:
Reality, Not Hype

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Deconstructing
a monolithic
Python/Django
app into…
(as was the style
at the time)
Go microservices

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“Any organization that designs a system
(defined broadly) will produce a design
whose structure is a copy of the
organization's communication structure.”
Mel Conway

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Containerized builds
runs tests
creates versioned
deployable artifacts
standardizes development
environment

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Continuous Integration &
Continuous Delivery
concourse.ci

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“Great job on those
zero-downtime
blue-green
deployments!”
—no CEO ever

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canary deployments

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Just because you can…
…doesn’t mean you should.

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roadmap: high-level*
*details: the devil is in them

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tech decisions: a Markov bot against HN
probably not
^

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also true for infrastructure as code.

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create visibility into operations
architect for failure
distribute decision-making

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“Durable communication exhibits the
same characteristics as accidental,
convenient communication in a co-located
space. The powerful difference is how
inclusive, transparent, and reliable it is.”
Casey West

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promises

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reasonable
constraints

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“To always be
shipping,
you need a
shipyard”
Bret Mogilefsky of 18F,
on cloud.gov

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Thank you!