Slides from my talk at DevOps East 2015 #BetterSoftwareCon. The talk was on how continuous delivery/deployment is not required for DevOps. But DevOps without successful CI is crippled and hard to grow and sustain

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Continuous Integration is for Everyone
Presented by Chris Riley ( @HoardingInfo ), DevOps Analyst

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Presenter
Chris Riley (@HoardingInfo) – Bad Coder turned
DevOps Analyst - O’Reilly author and regular contributor
to DevOps.com, ContainerJournal.com, TechTarget &
More

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People, then Process, then Tools
The market unintentionally
made DevOps inaccessible

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People, then Process, then Tools
Your are not: or and
you do not have to be

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People, then Process, then Tools
But First:

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People, then Process, then Tools
I’m going to give you …
yet another definition of DevOps

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DevOps !=
Jenkins
Continuous
Delivery/Deployment
Continuous Integration
Docker
Microservices Culture
Cloud
Etc. etc.
Canary Release

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Two 11 Flavors of DevOps
1.) The movement
2.) The practice

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The Practice – Technical Implementation of Infrastructure
The Practice Is:
• Owned by IT
• The tactics of infrastructure automation
• An evolution of ITSM/ITIL
• “DevOps Engineer”
The Practice Is Not:
• Culture
• Communication

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The movement – Strategic Implementation
• People, then Process, then Tools
• Holistic POV
• Facilitators and Executors
• It is a journey not an end or a thing
• “Shared Services” – “Enterprise Architect”
• Accountability
• There are no owners only stewards

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While Continuous Delivery / Deployment are stealing the show, they are not
required to be a modern development shop. If:
Forget CD
1. Your application does not have high transaction volume. And or,
2. Your application is not geographically diverse with sub-segments
3. Your customers are patient
Then CD wont benefit you

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People, then Process, then Tools
If you are focused on faster and more frequent
releases at a higher quality. Then the outcome will
look feel and smell like DevOps
The Bottom Line

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People, then Process, then ToolsTo take the next step in quality you need:
1. More frequent test runs
2. Earlier testing
3. Automated tests
4. Flexible testing environment(s)

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People, then Process, then Tools
And CI is the easiest place to start

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Continuous Integration
Environment(s)
The Code Café

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Why CI
• Iterate Quickly
• Iterate Safely
• Move Quality Earlier in Pipeline
• Improve Communication
• Automate sooner with Less Risk
• Get to new functionality sooner
• Exploratory Testing
• Better test strategy
Fail Fast/Forward

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People, then Process, then Tools
Problem: CI Stalemate

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A non-starter
• Who is the steward?
• Maintaining On-Prem CI environment(s) / test grids is a full time job
• Where is the $$$
• Testing is not the typical driving force
• Quality is seen as a maintenance only activity, at the end
• IT does not really care
• It is setup but not used

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Most Everyone Can Embrace CI

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Except If
• You just are not ready
• Line of Business (LOB) Applications are etched in stone

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Continuous Integration is a Process
• Hierarchy changes
• Communication: Developers do not want to be the last to know
• Make QA a first class citizen
• Visibility
CI Environments are the Implementation
• Release Automation
• Environment(s)
• Metrics
• Test Automation
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Best Practices / Things to Avoid / Consider
• CI does not mean On-Premise
• QA “Manages” CI Environments
• Start with Cloud Environments
• Measure and report
• Don’t let tools lead, but lead with tools

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How to start
• Bottom Up – Do Something
• “Lean In”
• Team Up
• Leverage Cloud tools for Quick Wins
• Deliver Metrics

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Think Big
• Deploy upon every pull request
• Turn focus to Strategy not Testing
• Orchestrate your Pipeline
• Build mock environments
• Docker?

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Oh … I forgot to say “Culture”

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Continuous integration
• Slip streams into existing environments
• Easiest way to onboard DevOps processes
• Safest way to grow into “ “

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Q&A
chris@fixate.io
Research: DevOps - Crippled
Without CI
http://bit.ly/DevOpsNeedsCI