Lessons about DevOps from Science Fiction
You can watch the video of this talk: http://vimeo.com/album/3093746/video/109820344 One of the important ideas behind DevOps is that people from development and operations should work together, just like the Doctor (a Time Lord) and his human companions work together to solve the problems of the universe. We're moving away from a model where control was centralized in the hands of a few, like the way the spice was tightly controlled in Dune, and we're sharing more of the responsibilities, like how the Stargate SG-1 team collaborates with the Tok'ra, the Asgard and others. We also work to automate processes and manage configurations, not unlike how Asimov created his 3 laws to make sure that robots, like our servers, were well-behaved and performing according to some standard rules. This is a fun session, but it focuses on real lessons from DevOps as told through science fiction.
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Lessons about DevOps from Science Fiction
- 1. LESSONS ABOUT DEVOPS FROM SCIENCE FICTION Dawn M. Foster Puppet Labs ! Director of Community @geekygirldawn dawn@puppetlabs.com Presenta(on available at h0p://fastwonderblog.com/speaking/
- 2. WHOAMI • Geek, traveler, reader • Recovered sys admin, community & open source • Read 73 books last year, mostly sci-fi / fantasy • I keep a list: http://fastwonderblog.com/about/ reading/ Photos by Josh Bancroft, Don Park
- 3. OVERVIEW • Culture: people, process • Automation: tools, growth, risk • Measurement: monitor & improve • Sharing: control, mentoring
- 4. ALL ABOUT THE PEOPLE The Doctor and companions work together like Ops & Devs
- 5. ONE STEP AT A TIME Understand changes, take one step at a time, and have solid processes.
- 6. AUTOMATE ALL THE THINGS Automate the tedious tasks and have time for the fun stuff
- 7. DELEGATE TO MINIONS Delegate the grunt work to automation tools, not minions Thanks to Dave Zwieback aka @mindweather for suggesting a Gru and the minions reference.
- 8. LAWS OF ROBOTICS Use config management systems with rules to control infrastructure behavior
- 9. GROWTH & AUTOMATION Use automation and configuration management tools to spin up large numbers of systems
- 10. REDSHIRTS ARE EXPENDABLE Treat your servers like redshirts ! Side note: read John Scalzi’s ‘Redshirts’
- 11. “EVERYTHING WE DO OUT HERE IS A RISK!” Automate tasks to reduce risk
- 12. MONITOR AND MEASURE Monitor and measure as much as possible to track progress for performance, processes & people
- 13. CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT Improve by assimilating useful technologies into your collective
- 14. SHARE AND IMPROVE Share new ideas, information, problems, and stories with a focus on continuous improvement.
- 15. CONTROL ISSUES Work together as equals, give up control and share responsibility
- 16. INCIDENT RESPONSE More people with more access means that you may need to adjust how you respond to incidents
- 17. DON’T CREATE MONSTERS Create a culture where developers & ops avoid short cuts that create new infrastructure monsters
- 18. MENTORING Train the next generation and help others succeed
- 19. STRONG WOMEN Encourage women in our field and get them speaking at our events www.usenix.org/blog/my-daughters-high-school-programming-teacher
- 20. DON’T PANIC Things will go wrong keep things in perspective calmly recover
- 21. THANK YOU Dawn Foster Puppet Labs ! @geekygirldawn dawn@puppetlabs.com fastwonderblog.com