This short presentation takes you through how DevOps came to the fore, explains its role within a Modern IT environment and is supported by two demos. The first demos illustrates how you can combine GitLab + Kubernetes + persistent storage (PowerMax) in an automated fashion to implement automated workflows and features . The second steps you through how you can leverage an Ansible playbook to automate the setup and management of storage infrastructure at scale (Ansible modules are included with Isilon and PowerScale storage). This presentation was originally delivered as a Linux Foundation webinar

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Today’s topics and demos
Topics
• Modern IT
• DevOps
• Automation
Demos
• Kubernetes + persistent storage
• Ansible to automate storage at scale

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Getting to DevOps -- The Rise of the developer
Application developers rose to “power” by leveraging and leading cloud transformation.
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Developers IT Operations
The Business Customers
Public cloud
Open source
software
1. Circumvention -> Innovation -> recognition
2. Shadow -> sanctioned
3. Seeds sewn for Modern IT

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Shifting from traditional to modern IT
Key Characteristics of Modern IT
• Automation
• Integration
• Cooperation
• Scalability
• Self-service
• Infrastructure as Code
App developers set the pace, ops must now deliver an app platform that provides a consistent developer experience at scale
Product team
Operations
(platform engineer)
Cloud native application
developer
Storage
Admin
Network
Admin
Server
Admin
Multi-cloud platform
Delivers and manages curated
developer experiences at scale
• Upskill
• Platform, not hardware
• Manage platform through software
Leverages tools and resources without
knowledge of underlying technology
• Designs/develops secure cloud apps
• Services may include data
• Containers and microservices
DevOps

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DevOps underpins modern IT
Dev Ops
Wall
of
confusion
Code
“It worked on
my laptop”

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DevOps underpins modern IT
Reduce friction, increase velocity
Tenets
• Cultural change
• Feedback-based
iteration
• Measurement
• Standardization
• Automation
1) Plan 2) Code
(create)
3) Test
(verify)
4) Package 5) Deploy
(release)
6) Operate
(configure)
7) Monitor
Microservices/Containers/Kubernetes
Cloud infrastructure/Open Source
Dev Ops
Wall
of
confusion
Code
“It worked on
my laptop” DevOps
Lifecycle
A methodology that lays out the needed processes, relationships and guiding tenets to support a Modern IT environment

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Demo
Kubernetes Application Deployment on PowerMax with GitLab
Automated workflows across
• Package
• Release
• Configure
• Monitor • App pushed to GitLab repo
• GitLab agent builds container images (CI)
• Agent deploys (CD) into K8s cluster connected
to the persistent volume of the PowerMax
Application + GitLab + Kubernetes + persistent storage

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Growing Need for Automation
Address increasing scale Embrace DevOps and
Infrastructure-as-Code
Immutable infrastructure,
rapid provisioning and
deployments
Self-Service functionality
of infrastructure
complexity and
deployment across
multi- cloud
Deliver cloud like
self-service
experience
90%
of enterprises worldwide will rely on a mix of
private clouds, multiple public clouds, &
legacy platforms to meet their needs1
IDC 2021
80%
of organizations delivering workload automation
will be using service orchestration and automation
platforms to orchestrate cross-domain workloads2
Gartner 2021

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Democratizing automation across IT
Manual Scripted Infrastructure-as-Code
• Ticket-based
• Reactive
• Orchestrated automation
• Procedural code
• Self-service portal
• Aligns with agile engineering
• Establish DevOps best practices
• Declarative code
• API-driven pipelines
Configuration stored in code
Code review and Version controlled
Frequent verification
Hard to maintain
Requires new skills
Time consuming
Resource intensive
Error-prone
Ongoing troubleshooting

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REST APIs
Make infrastructure automation simpler
DevOps
Self-service
Application
Mobility
Workload
Placement
Optimization
Application
Backups
Workload
Analysis
Microsoft
Developer Experience
Cloud Native Applications
Use
Cases
vRO vRA
D a t a S t o r a g e D a t a P r o t e c t i o n C o m p u t e
D e v O p s R e a d y P l a t f o r m s E d g e

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Demo
Ansible Automation with PowerScale/OneFS platform
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RF5WoeRry1k
• Ansible playbook automates setup and
management of storage infrastructure at scale
• Ansible modules included with Isilon and
Powerscale to run all required storage tasks.
• Open Source software is a key component

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Automate and manage Scale and Secure
Dell Technologies for DevOps
Aligns developers and IT infrastructure by empowering DevOps to design and operate modern and cloud-
native applications while accelerating business demands
Build and deliver
Storage Data Protection
DevOps Ready Platforms
Devs DELL PROVIDES
• Single-click provisioning
• Self-service apps, tools & APIs
• On-demand access to Open- Source elements
• Scalable Kubernetes solutions
Ops DELL PROVIDES
• Monitoring, analysis
• Enterprise tools
• Collaboration workflow tools
• Secure infrastructure backbone and tools
• Cross-portfolio maturity and multi-cloud options

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