This document discusses Verizon's DevOps strategy and initiatives. 1) Verizon aims to consistently create and deploy reliable software onto scalable infrastructure to enable immediate business and customer benefits through a DevOps approach. 2) Verizon is establishing best-in-class development platforms, optimizing infrastructure for cloud deployments, and scaling agile practices across engineering teams to accelerate innovation. 3) The next phase will focus on building dojo locations and embedding coaching to further scale engineering culture and competencies in areas like cloud native development.

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DevOps @ Verizon
Ross Clanton, Fellow, DevOps
Chivas Nambiar, Director, DevOps and Public Cloud Platform Engineering

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• Serving 99% of the Fortune 500
• Serving 2,700 cities in 150+ countries
INTERACTIVE
ENTERTAINMENT
INTERNET
SERVICES
• Largest 4G LTE network
• 113.7M retail connections
INTERNET
OF THINGS
• Nation’s largest all-fiber network
• 4.7M video and 5.6M Internet customers
DIGITAL
MEDIA
Fortune 500 rank: #13
2015 capital investment: $17.8B
2015 revenues: $131.6B
GLOBAL
BROADBAND NETWORK
Who we are:
Delivering the promise of the digital world

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Evolving customer profile … and expectations
Digital – on any device and across devices.
Instant – all devices always aware anywhere.
Simple – intuitive to buy, integrate and consume.
Reliable – works all the time.
Personal – everything is predictive and for me.

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Key Demand Drivers
4K TV (UHD)
Exponential
Virtual & Augmented Reality
Exponential
WIRELINE USAGE
PUBLIC
GLOBAL IP USAGE
55%Y/Y G% 49%
WIRELESS USAGE
67%Y/Y G % 61% 45%Y/Y G% 41%
Customer Behavior Driving Usage
Dec 13 Dec 14 Dec 15 Dec 13 Dec 14 Dec 15 Dec 13 Dec 14 Dec 15
Video Streaming
Incremental
Multiple Devices
Incremental

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Retooling the Consumer Business
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Reduce business process complexity
• Rationalize the product set
• Business Process Re-Engineering
• Simplify Customer Experience Simple
Personal
Customer
Experience
Single
Profile
Single
Catalog
Single
Order
Single
Biller
Plan for the future
• Roadmap for 7-10 years
• Next Generation OSS/BSS systems

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Unified Customer Experience
COA
.COM
RETAI
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SX
NSOP
NPD
SOP
BQTSDMP
NYNE
SOP
NOCV
SSP
SEFS CRISNBBE
V5 –
SCM
RIBS
2014
COA
.COM NSOPNOCV
SSP
SEFS CRISNBBE
VISION RIBS
• Improved common customer experience
• Foundation for IPTV platform
• Eliminate systems to improve quote to bill
accuracy
• Consolidate profiles across 9 systems to
improve response times and cross-channel
consistency
COA
.COM
SSP VISION
• Shutdown 140 systems to create national billing platform
• Enable seamless customer cross-regional moves
• Improved speed to market across all CMB products
• Simplified customer experience with single account ID
2015
2013
üEliminated vendor
costs

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Phase 1 – Systems Consolidation
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Simplify customer experience
• Single view of the customer
• Context driven call-in experience
• Simplified billing experience
System wide Re-architecture
• Consolidation of data
• API gateway layers
• Simplified single user interface
• Common Analytics platform
Systems Consolidation
696 ➡ 229 (2011 – 2016)

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Phase 1 – Infrastructure Consolidation
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Virtualization and Cloud
• 1000s of Physical servers eliminated
• 60%+ servers virtualized
Mainframe Consolidations
• Sites: 6 ➡ 4
• Mainframes: 39 ➡ 17
Consolidating Data Center Footprint
• Data Centers: 14 ➡ 7 (2011 – 2016)
20%
30% 40%
60%
85%
2011 2012 2013 2014 2015
Virtual Servers
Standalone Æ Virtualization Æ Cloud
0
5
10
2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016
Datacenters
Data Center Consolidation

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Phase 2 – DevOps as Acceleration Strategy
Our DevOps Aspiration
Consistently create and deploy
reliable software onto
scalable infrastructure enabling
immediate business and customer benefits
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The Value Creation Loop – Desired Outcomes
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Start with
an idea
Build minimum
viable product
Deploy and
scale
Get Customer
feedback
• Enable smart experiments
• Unleash developer creativity
• Build and scale seamlessly
• Code to customer ownership

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The Value Creation Loop – Desired Outcomes
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Start with
an idea
Build minimum
viable product
Deploy and
scale
Get Customer
feedback
• Enable smart experiments
• Unleash developer creativity
• Build and scale seamlessly
• Code to customer ownership

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Phase 2 – Enable and unleash
Standard Best in Class SDLC Platform
• Single Code Repository
• Single, open by default agile tracker
• Automated testing infrastructure
• Embedded Code quality and security scanning
Optimize for Enthusiasm Adoption
• Grassroots driven
• Business benefit success story showcases
• Six Sigma driven metrics validation

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Widespread
Enterprise
Adoption
Proven
Ongoing
Benefits
Continuing
Platform
Enhancements 767/1087 Directional Applications On-boarded
ü Increased % of Functional test cases automated
and executed
ü Increased % of Application functions and
deployments performance tested
ü 30%+ Reduction in production IRs
ü 30%+ Y/Y reduction in production outages
ü # of Continuous Integration builds
(Build/Test/Deploy) on platform
ü % No touch deployments
ü Multiple daily & weekly deployments enabled
vs monthly changes
Quality
Velocity
Platform Adoption
CMB, 138
CAO, 30
DWP, 15
VES, 184
WLNO, 11CFO, 66
ITCPS, 33
PDMO, 9
VZW, 95
VZW-N, 79
ITSP, 8
NTS, 99

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The Value Creation Loop – Desired Outcomes
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Start with
an idea
Build minimum
viable product
Deploy and
scale
Get Customer
feedback
• Enable smart experiments
• Unleash developer creativity
• Build and scale seamlessly
• Code to customer ownership

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Build and Scale
Retool the private cloud infrastructure
• Self-service automation as core concept
• API driven infrastructure using Openstack + Cloudfoundry
• Bring brown-field infrastructure along
Enable public cloud usage
• Started with non-production workloads
• Retraining teams for infra-as-code
• Security and Compliance embedded
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Migration Journey
Lift &
Shift
Cloud
Native
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Lift & Reinstall
• Build technical capability with cloud toolset
• Drive automation
• 30% infrastructure efficiency expected
Cloud Native Transition
• Refactor directional applications
• Enable innovation via scalable infrastructure
• multiple production versions, A/B experiments)
• Drive additional 40% efficiency

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VZW.com
• Primary online customer destination
• Increasingly larger revenue growth
source
• Business and market drives constant
change
Benefits:
• Code ➡ Deploy multiple times a day
• E2E environments in minutes vs
weeks
• 70+% test case automation
CoFEE Anywhere(Customer care system)
• One stop shop for care
• Supports 40k+ agents and technicians
• Critical to customer experience
Benefits:
• Releases from monthly ➡ 2x/week
• Elastic horizontal scaling
• Cost of infrastructure reduced by 30%
• In transition to micro-service drven
architecture
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Phase 2 – What success looks like for Systems

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• Engineering Culture
• Open Source adoption and adaptation
• Enterprise wide backlog
• Demo driven transformation
• Gamification as enabler
• DevOps Cups driving adoption
• Cash for success
• Agile transformation across multiple lines of business
• Open backlogs
• Knowledge and skills sharing
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Phase 2 – What success looks like for teams & culture
• Optimize for enthusiasm
• One size does not fit all
• Constant improvement
becomes second nature
• Take the first step!

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Value Creation Enablers – Where we are today
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ü Best in Class Agile SDLC
• Scalable Cloud Infrastructure
• Great Developer Experience
• DevSecOps enabled organization

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The Easy Part was
done…
So for Phase 3 we
brought in:
Ross Clanton!
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Dev
Ops
Been there, done that, and I have a T-
Shirt to prove it
-Ross Clanton, 2016

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Where next?
Accelerating Innovation!
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Dev
Ops

23. Scaling Engineering Culture & Practices
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Our goal is to grow and scale our Engineering capabilities, with deeper
competencies in Agile, DevOps, Cloud Native architecture, and security by
design.

24. How We Accelerate: Optimize for Agility
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25. How We Scale
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Embed
• Dedicated Coaching
• Co-creation
Enable
• Immersive Experiences (i.e. Dojos)
• Workshops
Establish
• Patterns, Practices, & Frameworks
• Code Examples / Reference Apps
• Self-Service Tooling & Training
• Communities of Practice
BaseService
Premium
Service
White-Glove
Service

26. Build Dojo Locations
Dojos are trending in the industry as an effective way to transform skills, incubate innovation,
and foster engineering culture
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Open Innovation Labs“Target rebuilds it’s Engineering
Culture, Moves to DevOps”
“CompoZed Labs aims to allow
parts of Allstate acting more like a
startup”
“Utilizing distributed dojo’s to
transform our workforce”
Vendor Labs ModelInternal Dojos

27. Engineering Practices
Operationalizing Dojos
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Roles
Optimize Dojo LocationsEstablish Engineering Practices Organization
Dojo Manager
Dojo Ops
DevOps Coach
Cloud Coach
App Sec Coach
Operations Strategy
• Dojo locations established at key technology
locations
• Regional approach provides hubs to travel to
• 40-50 seats per Dojo
• Staffing per location
• Scale space and coaches per demand
Community Engagement
Mgr
Agile
Engineering
DevOps
Cloud Native
Public Cloud
API / Services
Application
Security

28. How We’ll Know We’re Successful: Measuring Progress
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Are we getting better? (Capability Measures)
+
Are we seeing results? (Outcome Measures)
Community Challenge: Build a widget in Hygieia to integrate DORA results

29. Where do we need help
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How to move to a more customer aligned product and service
based organization…..

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