How continuous automation and monitoring plays a large role in your DevOps transformation.

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Accelerate Your DevOps Transformation with
Continuous Automation
Mike Kavis, VP/Principal Architect

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About the Speaker
@madgreek65
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WTH is DevOps,
Really?

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“We use Jenkins and Chef, so we’re doing
DevOps.”
“I’ll just create a DevOps team and
automate everything”
“It’s just operations learning to code /
developers learning operations.”
Common [Mis]Perceptions of DevOps

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A culture shift or movement that encourages greater collaboration
(aka teamwork) to foster building better quality software more
quickly with more reliability.
DevOps: The CTP Definition

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What is DevOps?
Attributes found in a DevOps culture:
1. COLLABORATION
Building relationships and breaking
down barriers and bottlenecks across
teams
1. AUTOMATION
Infrastructure as code and automation of
everything
1. CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT
Measure everything, blameless post-
incident reviews and managed risk-taking.

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Why DevOps
Speed of business has increased 10X
• Must deliver faster
• But still meet regulatory, security requirements
• Quality, reliability
• Minimal to no downtime
DevOps Value
• High performance company
• Competitive advantage
• Move at the speed of business
• React to change in markets, priorities, significant
events

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Continuous Automation

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Old Way vs. New Way
• Quarterly or biannual releases
• Multiple meetings
– Checkpoints
– Review boards
– Deployment planning
– Approvals
– Architecture & Security reviews
• Dependent on Heroes
– Tribal knowledge
– Non repeatable deployments
– Inconsistent environments
• Frequent Deployments
• Fewer meetings
– Automation
– Tagging/Metadata
– Automatic updates of CMDB
– Code scanning for policy and security enforcement
– Auto deploy and backout based on data
• Dependent on trust and learning
– Post mortems
– Visibility
– Shared responsibility
OLD WAY
= Working Hard
NEW WAY
= Working Smart

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Old Way vs. New Way
“We don’t have time to do things right” “We don’t have time to do things wrong”
OLD WAY
= Working Hard
NEW WAY
= Working Smart

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Continuous Monitoring and Automation
New Way
• Replace meetings w/code
• Make everything visible
• Empower people to take action
• Upload rules and policies
• Continuously validate rules & policies
• Raise alerts when out of compliance
– Fix issues when possible
– Automate event/incident mgmt
• Post mortems
– Mine data for patterns/learnings
– Adjust automation from learnings

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Summary
Out with the old way in with the new way
• What we are used to and comfortable
with will not help us anymore
• Agility is the new currency
• Trust in automation
• Proactive and continuous monitoring is
the way forward
• Humans don’t scale in the new age of
continuous delivery

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Thank you for your time and interest.
Get in touch to learn more about implementing a DevOps culture on your team.
mike.kavis@cloudtp.com

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