This document provides an overview of DevOps for recruiters, including what DevOps is, why it is important, and how to identify the right candidates. DevOps refers to a collaboration between development and operations to accelerate the delivery of software and ensure the reliability of production systems. It aims to break down silos and shift focus to delivering business value. Recruiters should understand DevOps transformations, look beyond job titles, and assess a candidate's alignment with DevOps principles like automation, collaboration, and continuous delivery. The document also shares information about DevOpsGuys, a consulting firm that provides DevOps services.

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Devops 101 for Recruiters
What is DevOps, why is it important and how to hire the correct candidates?
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2. Agenda
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DevOps on the Job Boards
Why DevOps?
What is DevOps?
What does this mean for Recruiters?
Q&A
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3. DevOps on the job boards
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4. DevOps Job Board Keywords
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5. Why does IT need to change?
WHY DEVOPS?
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6. Companies are Changing
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7. Who needs IT Depts?
“Gartner predicts that in less than three
years, 35% of enterprise IT expenditures will
happen outside of the corporate IT budget.”
“results of PricewaterhouseCoopers' Digital
IQ Survey indicate that at 100 of the
companies PwC ranks as "top performers,"
IT controls less than 50% of corporate
technology expenditures.”
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9226415/The_Upside_of_Shadow_IT?pageNumber=1
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8. Development HAS changed
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9. Focus shifted to Service
(and Speed)
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10. The Best are reaping the Rewards
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11. And why should you care?
WHAT IS DEVOPS?
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12. Defining Devops I
“The term “DevOps” typically refers to the
emerging professional movement that
advocates a collaborative working
relationship between Development and IT
Operations, resulting in the fast flow of
planned work (i.e., high deploy rates), while
simultaneously increasing the
reliability, stability, resilience and security of
the production environment.” – Gene Kim
http://itrevolution.com/11devops/
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13. He goes on to say
“…while simultaneously increasing the
reliability, stability, resilience and
security of the production
environment.”
– Gene Kim
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14. Defining Devops II
“I’ll tell you EXACTLY what DevOps means.
DevOps means giving a sh*t about your job
enough to not pass the buck. DevOps means
giving a sh*t about your job enough to want to
learn all the parts and not just your little world.
Developers need to understand infrastructure.
Operations people need to understand code.
People need to f**king work with each other and
not just occupy space next to each other.”
- John E. Vincent (@Lusis)
http://blog.lusis.org/blog/2013/06/04/devops-the-title-match/
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15. Breaking down Silos
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16. Products not Projects
"Delivery teams run software products
- not projects –
that run from inception to retirement“
– Jez Humble, (Thoughtworks)
https://sites.google.com/a/jezhumble.net/devops-manifesto/
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17. DevOps influences
Deming
Toyota (TPS)
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Lean
Agile
DevOps
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Muri
Mura
Mudi
Kaizen
Goldratt ToC

18. Some Key Thinkers
Patrick DuBois
(@patrickdubois)
Andrew Schafer
(@littleidea)
Gene Kim
(@realgenekim)
Jez Humble
(@jezhumble)
Jesse Robbins
(@jesserobins)
John Allspaw
(@Allspaw)
John Willis
(@botchagalupe)
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Damon Edwards
(@damonedwards)

19. CALMS Model
Culture
Automation
Lean
• Hearts & Minds
• Embrace Change
• CI/CD/
• “Infrastructure as Code”
• Focus on producing value for the end-user
• Small batch sizes
Metrics
• Measure everything
• Show the improvement
Sharing
• Open information sharing
• Collaboration
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20. Don’t fight Stupid…
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21. Embrace Chaos!
“One of the first systems our
engineers built in AWS is
called the Chaos Monkey.
The Chaos Monkey’s job is to
randomly kill instances and
services within our
architecture.
If we aren’t constantly testing
our ability to succeed despite
failure, then it isn’t likely to
work when it matters most – in
the event of an unexpected
outage.”
http://luckyrobot.com/netflix-chaos-monkey-keeps-movies-streaming/
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2011/04/working-with-the-chaosmonkey.html
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22. DevOps Transformation
• Don’t attack the Silos
– “Make more awesome”
• Use the CAMS framework & the 3 Ways as
guiding principles
• Start small & iterate
• Standard change management practices…
but remember culture, culture, culture!
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23. What DevOps ISN’T
• Not a “free-for-all”
• Not a return to the “pre-ITIL cowboys days”
• “Developers managing Production”
– http://blog.devopsguys.com/2013/02/17/devopsdoes-not-equal-developers-managingproduction/
• 12 DevOps Anti-Patterns
– http://blog.devopsguys.com/2013/02/20/twelvedevops-anti-patterns/
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24. A difference in emphasis?
DEVOPS & RECRUITERS
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25. DevOps Job Board Keywords
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26. “DevOps” Whitewashing
• Most of the job ads aren’t really “DevOps”
jobs
– It’s a SysAdmin job that someone’s stuck a
DevOps label on…
• Challenge the customer’s requirements
– Puppet and Chef on the same advert?
• DevOps isn’t a synonym for Automation
(remember C.A.L.M.S!)
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27. Understand the Big Picture
• “DevOps” Transformation
• Digital Transformation
• Cloud Migration
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28. Read “The Phoenix Project”
http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-PhoenixProject-Helping-Businessebook/dp/B00AZRBLHO
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29. DevOpsGuys
Thank You
operations | availability | performance | scalability | migration | strategy
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30. What We Do
DevOpsGuys provide development &
operations support (DevOps) services
for your online applications.
You run your business. We run your website.
It’s as simple as that.
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31. Our service portfolio
• 24 x 7 Application-Centric
web operations
• DevOps Transformation &
Training
• Continuous Delivery
implementation
• Infrastructure Automation
& “Infrastructure as Code”
• Application Performance
Management
• AppDynamics
Implementation &
Consultancy
• Web Performance
consulting
• Web monitoring
• Load Testing
• Test Automation and
scripting
• JetBrains Product
Implementation &
Consultancy
• Octopus Deploy
implementation
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32. Our Team
James Smith
(@TheDevMgr)
Steve Thair
(@TheOpsMgr)
• 16 years of software
delivery experience.
• Proven track record
• 25 years of IT Operations
experience.
• Proven track record
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Pizza Hut
KFC
Dell
RAC
Aviva
Fujitsu Siemens
Whitbread
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Vodafone
Credit Suisse Group
IBM
BNP Paribas
Zurich Financial Services
Totaljobs Group
TSL Education
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33. Contact Us
Visit us at www.devopsguys.com
Call our team on +44 (0)20 8798 3079
Email our engineers at
team@devopsguys.com
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