Keynote from Charlotte DevOpsDays 2020 - applying software engineering concepts to the 'Infrastructure' monolith

1. Building a Service Delivery
Infrastructure
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2. Paula Paul
@paulapaultweets
Distinguished Engineer
paulapaul.com
greyshore.com
Rosemary Wang
@joatmon08
Developer Advocate
HashiCorp
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3. Good to be back!
https://bit.ly/2T6HBmN
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4. Building a Service Delivery
Infrastructure Ecosystem
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5. 5
What is it?
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6. services & applications
business capability
delivered in
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7. infrastructure
services & applications
business capability
delivered in
7
delivered by
business value
delivered on
delivery ecosystem
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8. Delivery Infrastructure Ecosystem
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9. 9
Given an identifier associated with a customer,
When I call an API endpoint
Then I should get the customer’s name.
MVP - Deliver Me, "Hello Customer!"
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10. 10
Given an identifier associated with a customer,
When I call an API endpoint
Then I should get the customer’s name.
MVP - Deliver Me, "Hello Customer!"
I need to...
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11. 11
As a developer...
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12. I WANT TO BE
PRODUCTIVE
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13. 13
As a ... I want ... So that …
More / less detail
Consider acceptance criteria
Agile Narratives Describe Needs
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14. 14
As a developer
I want to securely manage my secrets
So that I can mitigate exposure to credentials.
Example: Secrets Management
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15. 15
Delivery Ecosystem as Software
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Domain-Driven Design
Test-Driven Development
Thin Slicing
YAGNI
Pairing
Acceptance Criteria
Agile
Infrastructure-as-code

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CORE COMPUTE BUILD PIPELINES NETWORKING
DATA
PERSISTENCE
WORKLOAD
ORCHESTRATION
OBSERVABILITY
ARTIFACT
REGISTRY
EXTERNAL
DEPENDENCIES
(SAAS/DC)
IDENTITY &
ACCESS
SECRETS
MANAGEMENT
VULNERABILITY
MANAGEMENT
Ecosystem Products and Journeys
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CORE COMPUTE BUILD PIPELINES NETWORKING
DATA
PERSISTENCE
WORKLOAD
ORCHESTRATION
OBSERVABILITY
ARTIFACT
REGISTRY
EXTERNAL
DEPENDENCIES
(SAAS/DC)
IDENTITY &
ACCESS
SECRETS
MANAGEMENT
VULNERABILITY
MANAGEMENT
Ecosystem Products and Journeys
PATH TO PRODUCTION (“Hello Customer” P2P)
PATH TO REPAIR (“Hello Customer” P2R)
PATH TO COMPLIANCE (“Hello Customer” P2C)
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18. 18
As an infrastructure
engineer...
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19. I WANT TO
RECLAIM
MY NIGHTS & WEEKENDS
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20. 20
Neither!
Learn infrastructure-as-code
End goal: quickly deliver "Hello, Customer!"
"Expert Developer" or "Hero Operator"?
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21. 21
As a developer / Build Pipeline engineer
I want to deliver my service / Build Pipeline in an
automated way
So that it is secure, compliant, and ready for my
customer.
Example: Build/Deployment Pipeline
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Delivery Ecosystem Deployment Pipeline
UNIT
Check
configurations
Example:
terraform plan
BUILD
Automation
Example:
terraform
apply
TEST
Check
integrations
Example:
pytest, inspec-
gcp, awspec
SECURE
Check security
conformance
Example:
scout2, g-
scout
MONITOR
Check
monitoring
exists
Example:
pytest
PERFORM
Check
performance
Example:
locust, pumba
PROMOTE
Ready for next
environment
Conformance Tests, can run asynchronously
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23. 23
As an architect...
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24. I WANT TO
CHAMPION THE
ARCHITECTURE "-ILITIES"
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25. 25
security
0 high vulnerabilities
resiliency
less than 1% error rate for new
deployment
auditability
less than 90 days since last audit
https://www.thoughtworks.com/insights/blog/fitness-function-driven-development
Architecture Fitness Functions
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26. services & applications
business capability
delivered in
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delivered by
business value
delivered on
delivery ecosystem
devops
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27. 27
As a CxO...
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A Balancing Act
Evolvability
Vendor Lock-In
Build vs. Buy
Autonomy
Cost
Fixed vs. On-
Demand Capacity
Compliance
Complexity
Vendor
Management
Global vs. Regional
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29. 29
Mean Time to
Recovery
Deployment
Failure Rate
Deployment
Frequency
Lead Deployment
Time
The 4 Horsemen of the DevOp-ocalypse

30. 30
Where do we start?
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31. Product Team
Structure?
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As an organization...
Capabilities
Development?
Executive
Buy-In?
Known
Journey?
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Who are your customers?

32. 32
As an individual...
remember
your
customer
experiment
read
examples
re-purpose
join/ build
a
community
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33. Thank You!!!
follow our ongoing
adventures@
Paula Paul
paula.paul@paulapaul.com
paula.paul@greyshore.com
@paulapaultweets
Rosemary Wang
rosemary@hashicorp.com
@joatmon08
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