The document discusses DevOps and the role of a DevOps engineer. DevOps emphasizes collaboration between developers and IT to automate software delivery and infrastructure changes. A DevOps engineer role requires skills in system administration, scripting, limited development experience, soft skills, and knowledge of tools like Docker, Ansible, monitoring with Nagios/Sensu, logging with ELK/Sentry, version control with Git, and CI/CD with Jenkins. The challenges for DevOps engineers are to automate the full software lifecycle and implement monitoring and alert tools.

1. DATE:
DEPARTMENT:
DevOps Workshop
DEVOPS
2015-11-28

6. What is DevOps (Wikipedia)
DevOps is a culture, movement or practice that
emphasizes the collaboration and communication of both
software developers and other IT
professionals while automating the process of software
delivery and infrastructure changes.
It aims at establishing a culture and environment where
building, testing, and releasing software, can happen rapidly,
frequently, and more reliably

7. What is a DevOps Engineer @ Upstream

8. What does it take to be a DevOps Engineer @ Upstream
● Be a System Administrator
○ Linux OS
○ Networking
○ Storage
● Scripting
○ Preferably python
● Limited but existing Developer background
○ Preferably Java
● Soft Skills
● Caring

9. Monolith vs Microservices ● Databases
○ PostgreSQL
○ Elasticsearch (NoSQL)
● Messaging
○ RabbittMQ
○ Kafka
● Application Servers
○ Tomcat
○ Apache + PHP
● Service Discovery
○ Zookeeper
○ Consul
● Data processing
○ Apache Spark
● Misc
○ Docker, Ansible
Languages: Java, PHP, Python
● Database (PostgreSQL)
● Application Server (JBOSS)
● Application
Languages: Java

10. Tools of the trade
● Scripting Languages
○ Python, Ruby, Bash, Perl
● Automation Frameworks
○ Ansible, SaltStack, Chef, Puppet
● Monitoring
○ Nagios, Icinga, Sensu, Riemann
● Logging
○ ELK, Sentry
● Version Control
○ Git, Subversion, Mercurial
● CI/CD
○ Jenkins, TravisCI
● ChatOps
○ HipChat + ErrBot
● Service Discovery
○ Zookeeper, Consul

11. Challenges
Automated the full software lifecycle
Implement tools to monitor the status of the applications
and alert in case of problems
Continuous Improvement

12. Questions

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