The document discusses the concept of deploying directly to production, emphasizing the importance of automation through pipelines, continuous delivery, and testing. It introduces terminology like feature flags and the distinction between deployment and launch, while also addressing potential concerns such as technical debt. The key takeaways suggest that effective automation, testing in production, and separating deployment from release are crucial for successful implementation.

1. Deploying Straight to Prod
A guide to the holy grail
Damian Brady
@damovisa

2. Who am I?
Damian Brady
An Australian guy who talks about DevOps a lot
I am
here

3. @damovisa

4. @damovisa

5. @damovisa

6. Is this guy really going to tell us
to deploy straight to production?
No
Yes
?

7. OH NO PLEASE NO

8. Pipelines
Production?
AGENDA

9. @damovisa
Continuous
Delivery
Continuous
Integration
Continuous
Deployment
merge, build, test ready to deploy automatically deployed
TERMINOLOGY

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Continuous
Delivery
Continuous
Integration
Continuous
Deployment
merge, build, test ready to deploy automatically deployed
TERMINOLOGY

11. DEMO

12. Uhhh, wait a second…

13. The Pipeline

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THE PIPELINE

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A pipeline is about automation
THE PIPELINE

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THE PIPELINE
A pipeline is about automation

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A pipeline is about automation
THE PIPELINE

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BUILD
Does it merge?
Does it compile?
TEST
Do our tests pass?
Is our code secure?
DEPLOY + TEST
Do the tests still pass?
Does the UI work?
Can we talk to our DB?
PRODUCTION
I might buy a yacht.
A pipeline is about testing
THE PIPELINE
Did our deployment work?

19. @damovisa
BUILD
Does it merge?
Does it compile?
TEST
Do our tests pass?
Is our code secure?
PRODUCTION
I might buy a yacht.
A pipeline is about testing
THE PIPELINE
DEPLOY + TEST
Do the tests still pass?
Does the UI work?
Can we talk to our DB?
Did our deployment work?

20. DEMO

21. Back in the real world…

22. @damovisa

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Feature
Branching
Feature
Flags
in-progress features
don’t go all the way to
production
everything goes to
production, but in-progress
features are invisible
PRODUCTION?

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DeploymentRelease Launch
the artifacts and
deployment steps that
define a version
putting a release
in an environment
giving a change to
the users
TERMINOLOGY

25. Deploying a Release is a technical event
A Launch is a business event

26. @damovisa
Build and Test
Deploy to …
FEATURE FLAG PIPELINE
Deploy to Prod
Test features
Launch

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Build and Test
Deploy to …
FEATURE FLAG PIPELINE
Deploy to Prod
Test features
Launch

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BENEFITS
Pipeline provides a filter
Separates the Launch from the Deployment
Test in Production!

29. DEMO

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BUT WHAT ABOUT…
One-way changes
Branch by
Abstraction
Transitional
Deployments
Technical
Debt
give yourself a
way back
resolve dependencies
based on feature flags
clean up after
yourself

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+ + =
Everything.
Yes, everything.
Automation01
Stop the bad from
getting to Production
Testing02
Separate Deployment from Release
Test in Production!
Feature Flags03
A white yacht please.
Success
TAKEAWAYS

32. damovisa.me
THANK YOU
@damovisa
http://brdy.in/NDCProd