DevOps is more than a software development methodology. It aims to break the historical wall amongst Apps Team and Operation team.

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DevOps
An Extended & Unified Approach of Agility
Designed for Board members and Executives
for general knowledge purpose

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Business challenges / market changes
Faster
Quicker
Safer

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Spurred by increasing business goals in a fully accelerating world,
businesses want their IT to quickly stick to their needs, real-time. No
more acceptance for latency and even less for delays. As their definite
weapon, IT System has to be agile, available and responsive
Faster

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Development teams created methods
to speed up the application
release to the end-users:
RAD
Iterative prototyping
Agility
Lean IT…
End-users have high
expectations in terms of new
functionalities release (relevancy, quality,
quickness)
Quicker

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IT Operation Team have to ensure IT systems stability,
consequently, they are reluctant to frequent and multiple changes
But safely…

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As a result…
IT
Application
IT
Operation
Poor code quality
Not enough tested releases
Unforecasted server/network impact
Unanticipated outage risks
Reluctance for changes
Lack of trust

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The Wall
IT Development teams
Speed up the application
release to meet end-users
expectations, thus generating
multiple and frequent versions to deploy and
operate
IT Operation teams
Maintain a stable and reliable
environment, avoid multiple and
frequent changes, restrict
development releases
Quicker
Safer
Static
Process
Agile
Process

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The bridge
IT
Developpers
World
IT
Operation
World
DevOps
DevOps
methodsDevOps
tools

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Extended agility
Agility for development
Rapide Application Development
Scrum
Xtreme Programming
Agility for operation
A combination of secured &
flexible IT
Unified agility for both
DevOps

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DevOps : not a tooling issue
DevOpsDevOps
People
ProcessTools
DevOps Engineers
Agility
CIP
ALM
Automation
1.People
2.Process
3.Tooling
Culture
Management
OpenSource
Software Vendors

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RelevantRelevant
EfficientEfficient
ScalableScalable
ValuableValuable
DevOps pioneers : they showed the way…
Thanks to a DevOps oriented approach,
they made their business flourish
drastically, the IT being an accelerator
and not an issue.
SOA
PaaS
Amazon Web Services
Up to 2 B request per day
Up to 100 releases per day
Fully empowered developpers

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Full DevOps Processing
From code to business : Faster, Quicker, Safer
DEV TEST UAT PROD
CONTINUOUS DEPLOYMENT CONTINUOUS DELIVERY
INTEG STAGING
Continuous Integration Platform « Continuous Delivery Platform »
Agile development
Encoding
Business
Agile production

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Example : Continuous Integration Platform
Quality
Repository
Alerts
Quality
Control
System
Check
Compilation
Test processing
Controls
Packaging
Deployment
Source
Code
Test reports
Real time check and control quality, compliance and reliability of code performed by developers (apps).
Then share apps quality reports with production team (thus they become more confident).
End-to-end configuration management
Stats

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DevOps in a nutshell
Development – Operation cultures are merged
Lean inspiration : small lots
Tooling to leverage
CAMS
Culture
Automation
Measurement
Sharing
Application
(Software Engineering)
Quality
Infrastructure
(Technology Operations)
DevOps

15. Thanks for your attention
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