DevOps in the days of Covid is a different beast. This deck was presented at JFrog meetup (https://www.meetup.com/JFrog-DevOps-Bangalore-Meetup/events/270291615/?utm_campaign=EMEA%2FAPAC+Online+Events+&utm_content=0042nykk8d8lcov)

1. Covid-19
The antithesis of DevOps
https://xkcd.com/2282

2. Avi Cavale
VP of Engineering at JFrog
@avinci

3. COrona VIrus Disease 2019
An infectious disease caused by a newly
discovered strain of coronavirus

4. A much harder question, What is DevOps?
A set of practices that brings Dev & Ops together with the
intent of shortening SDLC , improving software quality, and
providing CD
focusing on a “Culture of Collaboration”

5. Focusing on culture and breaking
down silos is a good thing
dev ops
• build things
• inspired by
creativity
• make things reliable
• inspired by stability

6. Benefit seen is rarely > 15%
improvement
Dev
Test
Ops
2 Pizza Teams Functional Silos
larger larger
Agility costIntegration cost

7. Workflows evolve
in the way
organizations are
structured
Conway’s Law

8. Do these workflows communicate
stochastically or systematically?

9. The DevOps emphasis on culture &
bringing devs and ops closer together
has forced all communication to be
stochastic
SCRUM
Meetings
Chat
Rooms
Hallway
Conversatio
ns
Do you have
a minute?
Email
Messages

10. Now, Covid-19 has forced a huge change
• Socially distancing is here to stay
• WFH has become the new normal
• Work schedules have become totally random
Core tenet of DevOps - “collaborate closely” - has been
turned upside down…

11. Interestingly, more than a century ago, a
visionary figured out how to increase
throughput…
he created “Assembly Lines”

12. parts are added to create semi-
finished components
upstream components can become
parts for additional semi-finished
components
…and so on until the final “shippable”
assembly is reached

13. Ops sets-up test infrastructure
with VPC, Kube cluster, Load-
balancers etc.
Test
infra
info
MS1
Imag
e
MS2
Imag
e
MS1 Dev team takes base
image and create MS1 image
with CI tests
MS2 Dev team takes base
image and create MS2 image
with CI tests
Test team takes MS1and MS2
deploys to test and run sys and
perf tests and promotes MS1
and MS2 if all OK
Test
ed
MS1
Imag
e
Test
ed
MS2
Imag
e
Ops sets-up prod
infrastructure with VPC, Kube
cluster, Load-balancers etc.
Prod
infra
info
Deployment team
deploys MS1 and
MS2 to prod
Prod
rel’s
e
info
DevSecOps creates security
hardened base docker images
for microservices
Base
Imag
e
Pipeline
stat
e
A connected enterprise, aka “Software Supply
Chain”

14. is the workflow that is needed to produce a
component from other input components
Pipeline
stat
e
is the output of a pipeline (aka “resource”),
which could either be a finished component,
or a semi-finished component used as an
input to other pipelines
Resources are the bedrock of creating systematic
communication in DevOps workflows

15. How to get the monkey off your back
• Create reusable pipelines for
different parts of your SDLC and
modularize it
• Choose a pipeline tool that has
inbuilt functionality for state or
resources
• Whatever you get pinged for,
create a resource for it
• Automate the heck out of your
process

16. Thank you for
listening
Avi Cavale
avic@jfrog.com