Mobile to mainframe - The Challenges and Best Practices of Enterprise DevOps

© 2013 IBM Corporation
Mobile to Mainframe
The Challenges and Best Practices of
Enterprise DevOps
Sanjeev Sharma
IBM Worldwide Lead – DevOps Technical Sales
Executive IT Specialist, IBM Software Group
sanjeev.sharma@us.ibm.com
@sd_architect

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Agenda
• A Level set on DevOps
• IBM‟s view of DevOps
• DevOps and the Enterprise
• DevOps for Mobile Apps
• DevOps for the Mainframe
• Adopting DevOps in The Enterprise
o People
o Process
o Technology

Market trends and expected client business outcomes
Dependent on rapid Software Innovation and Delivery
5
Continuous
client experience
Partner value
chain
Cloud-based
Services
Systems of Engagement Systems of Record
SAP HR
DB ERP
Systems of Interaction
Leverage cloud
to enable flexibility and offer
new services
Integrate, evolve
and maintain
stability of services
and comply with
any regulations
Rapidly deliver
differentiating
digital
content, applicatio
ns and services to
grow revenues &
obtain new
customers
Provide
differentiating client
experience to meet
the needs of
empowered users
Enable a software
supply chainInternet of Things
Deliver software based innovation
to enable machine to machine
interactions

Organizations that effectively leverage software innovation
outperform their competitors... yet few are able to deliver it
effectively
6
86%
of companies believe software delivery
is important or critical
25%
leverage software delivery effectively today
But only…
Source: “The Software Edge: How effective software development drives competitive advantage,” IBM Institute of Business Value, March 2013
69%
outperform
those who don’t
of those who
leverage software
delivery today

Achieving the business outcomes are exposing gaps in the software
innovation and delivery processes
Systems of Interaction
Continuous
client experience
Partner value
chain
Cloud-based
Services
Systems of Engagement Systems of Record
CRM HR
DB ERP
of applications
rolled back
>80%
of partnered
projects fail
to meet objectives
>50%
of resources devoted
to maintaining existing
systems and products
>70%
to deliver application
changes to
customers
4-6 Weeks
Line-of-business
Takes too long to introduce or make
changes to digital apps and services
Operations
Rapid app releases impacts system
stability and compliance
Development/Test
Speed mismatch between faster moving front office and slower
moving back office systems, delaying time to get feedback
Suppliers
Delivery in the context
of rapid changes

And a lack of continuous delivery impacts the entire business
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Costly, error prone
manual processes and
efforts to deliver software
across an enterprise
CHALLENGES
Upgrade risk due to
managing multiple application
configurations and versions
across servers
Slow deployment
to development and test
environments leave teams
waiting and unproductive
CHALLENGES
Operations/
Production
Development/
TestCustomers
Business
Owners
Software glitch costs
trading firm Knight
Capital $440 million
in 45 minutes
A bad software upgrade
at RBS Bank left
millions unable to access
money for four days
New Zealand’s biggest phone
company, Telecom paid out $2.7 million
to some 47,000 customers who were
overcharged after a software glitch

Agenda
• A Level set on DevOps
• IBM’s view of DevOps
o People
o Process
o Technology

 William Deming – American statistician
 Major influencer of Japanese manufacturing and
business
 Famous for Plan-Do-Check-Act cycle (Deming
Cycle)
– I like “Adjust” versus “Act”
 PDCA cycles found in DevOps
10
William
Edwards
Deming
Deming Cycle

Accelerate Software Delivery
Balance speed, cost, quality and risk
Reduce time to customer feedback
DevOps
Enterprise capability for continuous software delivery that enables clients
to seize market opportunities and reduce time to customer feedback
1111
Continuous Innovation, Feedback and Improvements
DevOps Lifecycle
Operations/
Production
Development/
TestCustomers
Business
Owners

DevOps approach: Apply Lean principles to software innovation and
delivery to create a continuous feedback loop with customers
Line-of-
business
Customer
1
3
2
1. Get ideas into production fast
2. Get people to use it
3. Get feedback
Adopt DevOps approach to continuously
manage changes, obtain feedback and ,
deliver changes to users
Eliminate any activity
that is not necessary
for learning what
customers want

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Adoption paths to a DevOps approach
DevOps Foundation
Open Lifecycle and Service Management Integration Platform
DevOps Lifecycle
Operations/ProductionDevelopment/TestCustomers Business Owners
Continuous Innovation, Feedback and Improvements
Ecosystem
BestPractices
Monitor and Optimize
Plan and Measure Develop and Test Release and Deploy
OSLC

Heterogeneous Environments
Public Cloud
Private Cloud
Data Warehouse Mainframe
Enterprise Service
Bus
Directory
Identity
File
systems
Collaboration
Mobile App
Routing
Service
Third-party
Services
Portals
Content
Providers EJB
Shared
ServicesArchives
Business Partners
Messaging
Services
DevOps in the Enterprise
 Heterogeneous Environments
 Multi-technology, multi-vendor
 Silo-ed development and deployment
 Dev – Ops segregation
 Distributed Teams
 Supply Chain model
 Partners and Suppliers
 Water-SCRUM-fall model

DevOps for Mobile - Challenges
 Mobile Apps are the front-end to a
complex(enterprise) back-end
system
– Mobile Apps are rapidly becoming a
critical user interface to enterprise
systems
– But they are just one part of a multi-tier,
multi-component application “eco-system”
– Developing and delivering mobile apps
requires coordination across that whole
eco-system
Public Cloud
Private Cloud
Enterprise
Service Bus
Directory
Identity
File
systems
Collaboration
Mobile App
Routing
Service
Third-party
Services
Portals
Content
Providers EJB
Shared
ServicesArchives
Business
Partners
Messaging
Services

DevOps for Mobile - Challenges
 Fragmented Platforms
– Multiple mobile operating
systems
– Multiple devices & form factors
– Multiple implementation
technology choices
 Frequently a mix of technology is
involved for mobile app
implementation
 API and Provisioning Keys need to
be governed
 App stores add additional
asynchronous deployment step

Mobile Application Architecture: LinkedIn
http://engineering.linkedin.com/testing/continuous-integration-mobile

Multi-tier mobile apps present specific challenges to DevOps
Middle Tier ServerClient Tier Devices Back-end Data & Services
Mobile-specific
challenges:
 Lots of device targets
 Provisioning rules
and artifacts
 Curated App Stores
 Dependent upon
backend service
versions
The Mobile-specific challenge in DevOps is mainly:
1. Dealing with the specific issues in the Mobile Client tier
2. And subsequently coordinating separate pipelines for
each tier:
 Mobile Client
 Middleware
 Back-end data and services

DevOps for Mobile
Accelerate Delivery focusing on quality and user experience
One-star ratings kill companies. A fickle user base with
many competing options makes reacting to feedback
essential. Continuous Feedback and Optimization using
Tealeaf helps monitor user sentiment and usage, letting
teams react to poor feedback before it spirals
Build Deploy
Functional
Test
Acceptance
Test
App Store

Mainframe Delivery Pains…
 Multiple teams working across
restricted dev and test capacity lead
to conflict, delays, or bad test
results in shared environments
 Complex and manual management
and configuration tasks result in
errors and delays
 Too much bad code going into test
and production causes crit sits and
emergency fixes
 Bottlenecks due to inefficient
communications between disparate
platforms and teams (Dev/Test -
System Programmers; mobile –
distributed-mainframe)

Go on Offense
Play Defense
…solutions from IBM
 Provide cheap, isolated,
development and test environments
for project teams
– Rational Development and Test
Environment
– Rational Test Virtualization Server
– SmartCloud Provisioning
– Cloud Ready for Linux on System z
 Automate consistent build,
configure, and deploy processes
across all stages
– Rational Team Concert
– uDeploy
– SmartCloud Orchestrator
 Enforce base quality standards
automatically prior to promotion
– Rational Test Workbench
– Rational Quality Manager
– SmartCloud Application Monitoring
– Omegamon
 Improve communication and
collaboration with cross-platform
release planning
– IBM Collaborative Lifecycle
Management
– Smart Cloud Control Desk

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Test LPAR
z/OS
…
Typical z/OS Testing Architecture
Organized by project team, vertically scaled, sharing resources, limited automation
Project
Team
[April Maintain]
Project
Team
[Prototype SOA]
Project
Team
[June New Func]
Project
Team
[Dec Sys Upgrade]
Test
Data
App
App
App
Problems Encountered
1.Shared resources combined
with overlapping schedules can
elicit conflicts, impede
innovation and slow code
delivery
2.Coordination of environmental
changes and releases cause
bottlenecks, delays and
additional overhead
3.Shared test data is difficult to
manage and can lead to over
testing or incorrect test results

Agenda
• An Level set on DevOps
• IBM‟s view of DevOps
o People
o Process
o Technology

Plan / Measure Development / Test Release / Deploy Monitor / Optimize
ScaledReliableRepeatablePracticed
DevOps maturity model
Define release with
business objectives
Measure to customer value
Plan and source
strategically
Dashboard portfolio
measures
Link objectives to releases
Measure to project metrics
Automate problem isolation
and issue resolution
Optimize continuously
Improve continuously with
development intelligence
Test Continuously
Manage environments
through automation
Provide self-service build,
provision and deploy
Monitor using business and
end user context
Centralize event notification
and incident resolution
Deliver and build with test
Centralize test management
Link lifecycle information
Plan departmental releases
and automate status
Automated deployment with
standard topologies
Optimize applications
Use enterprise issue
resolution procedures
Deliver and integrate
continuously
Manage data and virtualize
services for test
Standardize and automate
cross-enterprise
Automate patterns-based
provision and deploy
Document objectives locally
Manage department
resources
Monitor resources
consistently
Collaborate Dev/Ops
informally
Manage Lifecycle artifacts
Schedule SCM integrations
and automated builds
Test following construction
Plan and manage releases
Standardize deployments
Industry norm

Lifecycle Integration for DevOps
Management
Accountability
Integration
Culture
Collaboration
Communication
Automation
Integration
Visibility
Operational
Models, Asset
s, Data and
Stores
Development
Models, Assets, D
ata and Stores
Dev
Tools
Ops
Tools
Process
People
Technology

• Common Business Objectives
• Vision Statement
• Common measures of Success
Product
Owner
Team
Member
Team Lead
Team
Member
Team
Member
Senior
Executives
Users
Domain
Experts
Auditors
Gold Owner
Support Staff
External
System Team
Operations
Staff
Adopting DevOps in the Enterprise: People/Culture

• The case for and against „DevOps Team‟
• The DevOps Liaison Team
• No overlay layer of bureaucracy

• Building a DevOps Culture
• There is no Silver Bullet
• Right People are needed
Product
Owner
Team
Member
Team Lead
Team
Member
Team
Member
Senior
Executives
Users
Domain
Experts
Auditors
Gold Owner
Support Staff
External
System Team
Operations
Staff

• Organizational Change
„Shift Left‟ – Operational Concerns
Build „Application aware‟ Environments
Environment Sprints

• DevOps as a Business Process
• A Process to get Capabilities from Ideation to Value
• Apply Lean Thinking to Processes
Adopting DevOps in the Enterprise: Process

Key Capabilities
1. Collaborative Development & Continuous
Integration
2. Continuous Business Planning
3. Continuous Release and Deploy
4. Continuous Testing
5. Continuous Feedback

1. Collaborative Development and Continuous Integration
http://bit.ly/PRQ4a7
Mobile App
Developent
Teams
Enterprise
Services
Developent
Teams

2. Continuous Business Planning
3. Continuous Release and Deploy
4. Continuous Testing
5. Continuous Feedback
http://bit.ly/PRQ4a7

• Infrastructure as Code/Software
Defined Environments
package "apache2" do
package_name node['apache']['package']
end
service "apache2" do
case node['platform_family']
when "rhel", "fedora", "suse"
service_name "httpd"
# If restarted/reloaded too quickly httpd has a
habit of failing.
# This may happen with multiple recipes
notifying apache to restart - like
# during the initial bootstrap.
restart_command "/sbin/service httpd restart &&
sleep 1"
reload_command "/sbin/service httpd reload &&
sleep 1"
/* REXX */
/* REXX BIND processor sample */
trace o
Arg PACKAGE DBRM
rcode = 0
/* Set BIND options */
SYSTEM = 'DSN9'
i = Pos('(', DBRM)
len = Length(DBRM)
LIBRARY = Substr(DBRM, 1, i - 1)
MEMBER = Substr(DBRM, i + 1, len - i - 1)
OWNER = 'DEVDBA'
ACTION = 'REPLACE'
VALIDATE = 'RUN'
ISOLATION = 'CS'
EXPLAIN = 'NO'
QUALIFIER = 'DEVDBA'
Call Bind_it
Exit rcode
Bind_it:
/* Create a bind control statement as a single long line. Then */
/* queue that into a FIFO stack */
DB2_Line = "BIND PACKAGE("PACKAGE")" ||,
" LIBRARY('"LIBRARY"')" ||,
" MEMBER("MEMBER")" ||,
" OWNER("OWNER")" ||,
" ACTION("ACTION")" ||,
" VALIDATE("VALIDATE")" ||,
" ISOLATION("ISOLATION")" ||,
" EXPLAIN("EXPLAIN")" ||,
" QUALIFIER("QUALIFIER")"
/* Write the bind control statement to the data queue and execute */
/* DB2I to perform the bind. */
queue DB2_Line
queue "End"
Address TSO "DSN SYSTEM("SYSTEM")"
rcode = RC
Return
Rational Automation
Framework
(WAS, Commerce, MQ…)
Adopting DevOps in the Enterprise: Technology

Adopting DevOps in the Enterprise: Technology
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• Common Collaboration Tools
• Common Work Item Management Tool
• Dashboards to show status/progress

IBM acquires UrbanCode
Expand DevOps capabilities and accelerate plans
Release and Deploy

IBM announces the acquisition of UrbanCode Inc.
Enhancing Continuous Release and Deployment:
 Drive down cost by automating manual tasks,
eliminating wait-time and rework
 Speed time to market by increasing the frequency of
software delivery
 Reduce risk through increased compliance of
application deployments.
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Deployment
Complements our DevOps solution:
 Deliver a differentiated and engaging customer
experience by reducing time to customer feedback
 Quicker time-to-value of software-based innovation
with improved predictability and success
 Increased capacity to innovate by reducing waste
and rework in order to shift resources to high-value
activities
Complementing our DevOps solution, combining IBM and UrbanCode, will enable clients to
more rapidly deliver mobile, cloud, big data analytics and traditional applications.

Line of
Business
IBM UrbanCode
Build
Example DevOps Tool Chain
Incrementally adopt when/if needed
Rational Team Concert
Rational Quality Manager
Rational Test Workbench
Rational Test Virtualization Server
SmartCloud Application Performance Management
Rational Focal Point
Rational Requirements Composer
SmartCloud Orchestrator
IBM Pure Application System
44
IBM UrbanCode Deploy
IBM UrbanCode Release

DevOps for Mobile
Accelerate Delivery focusing on quality and user experience
Build Deploy
Functional
Test
Acceptance
Test
App Store
RTW MobileIBM UrbanCode Deploy IBM UrbanCode Release

COBOL, PL/I, C++, Java, EGL, Batch,
Assembler, Debug Tool
x86 PC running Linux
IMS
z/OS
WAS
DB2
MQ
CICS
Note: This Program is licensed only for development and test of applications that run on IBM z/OS. The Program may not be used to run production workloads of any kind, nor more
robust development workloads including without limitation production module builds, pre-production testing, stress testing, or performance testing.
DevOps Lifecycle
Continuous Feedback and Improvements
Operations/ProductionDevelopment/TestCustomers Business Owners
IBM Continuous Integration
Solutions
for System Z
IBM Rational Test
Workbench
Rational Development and Test Environment for System z
Continuous build and test of distributed systems
46
IBM Application Deploy

Continuous testing with virtualized services
Avoid testing bottlenecks due to dependencies on external services
• Automate setup and management of test
virtualization server in the cloud
• Automates configuration of virtualized
services for an application under test
• Automate setup of production-like test
environments with low cost
Databases Mainframe
applications
Third-party
Services
Rational Test Virtualization Server
App deploy
Application
changes
being tested
virtualized services
IBM SmartCloud Orchestrator
IBM PureApplication System
SIT FVT
IBM Rational Test
Workbench

What is Service Simulation and Test Virtualization?
Test Virtualization enables to create “virtual
services”:
–Virtual Services simulate the behavior of an
entire application or system during testing
–Virtual Services can run on commodity hardware,
private cloud, public cloud
–Each developer, tester can easily have their
own test environment
–Developer and testers continue to use their
testing tools (Manual, Web performance, UI test
automation)
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Capture
&Model
System dependencies are a key challenge in
setting up test environments:
Unavailable/inaccessible: Testing is constrained
due to production schedules, security
restrictions, contention between teams, or because
they are still under development
Costly 3rd party access fees: Developing or testing
against Cloud-based or other shared services can
result in costly usage fees
Impractical hardware-based virtualization:
Systems are either too difficult (mainframes) or remote
(third-party services) to replicate via traditional
hardware-based virtualization approaches
Public Cloud
Private Cloud
Enterprise
Service Bus
Directory
Identity
File
systems
Collaboration
App Under TestRouting
Service
Third-party
Services Portals
Content
Providers EJB
Shared
ServicesArchives
Business
Partners
Messaging
Services
Databases Mainframe
applications
App Under Test
Third-party
Services
Packaged apps, messaging services, etc.
Virtual Services

Cloud Deployment using UrbanCode Deploy
Compute |
Storage
OS
Packaged
Software
Application
Middleware
Compute |
Storage
OS
Packaged
Software
Middleware
Network
Cloud
Provisioning
(SmartCloud
Orchestrator, Pur
e Systems)
Cloud Management

Continuous Delivery with Cloud
IBM Pure System
Build Artifact Library
Application
Resource
Template
Build Deploy Provision
Application binaries (versioned)
Environment configurations (versioned)
• Automate provisioning of environments as part of the end-to-end delivery
process – Establish and automate deployment of Application Blueprint with
resource templates imported from Cloud patterns.
• Deploy early and often to ensure high quality and faster releases using
repeatable, reliable, and managed automation - Seamless process flow for
incremental, full stack provisioning and application deployment automation
IBM UrbanCode
Deploy v6.0

Blueprint
Application
Resource
Template
Continuous Delivery to Cloud
 Capture cloud pattern to be used for
creating an Environment
 Incremental deployment of
application builds to cloud
environments
 Map the application to multiple
cloud patterns
The freedom to provision a version of a full stack or incrementally deploy an application version
into an already provisioned environment
Environments | Processes | Configurations
Import pattern
DEV
QA PROD
DEV
DEV
IBM Pure Application System
Create env
from pattern
Deploy app

Legacy
Systems
SW-Defined
Environments
Mobile
Transformation
Market
Experimentation
Agile
Transformation
Quality
Improvement
Agile
Initiative
Case Study: Fidelity International
Business Challenge
• Unpredictable Release schedules
• Need to adopt Agile development practices
• Compliance and Audit requirements
Pain Points
• Speed of delivery – release process took 2-3 days
• Manual test and environment setup resulted in
down time
• Manual processes introduced errors
Benefits
• Cost Avoidance of over £1.5M ($2.3M) a year  Assured regulatory compliance
• Test team “down-time” virtually eliminated
• Release processes take 1-2 hours versus 2-3 days
• Developers gain autonomy and self-service for deploying applications
Release /
Deploy
Develop /
Test
Plan /
Measure
Monitor /
Optimize
Jazz, OSLC and Open Standards Platform
Collaboration Change & Configuration
Management
Dashboard /
Analytics
Requirements
Code
Test
Deployment
Provisioning
Customer
Feedback
Monitoring
Continuous
Delivery
Portfolio
Management
http://www.urbancode.com/html/resources/articles/Fidelity_Success_Story.pdf

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