Operationalize the network to affect positive cultural change across IT silos to accelerate time to market because the second place is the first loser in an application world.

1. Operationalize all the
NETWORK things
Lori MacVittie
Principal Technical Evangelist @ F5 Networks
@lmacvittie

2. About Lori
Developer Lori
• 9 years software
development
– Enterprise architecture
– Telecom
– ISVs
• Still hobby coding
– PHP + vi FTW
Networking Lori
• 6 years Network Computing
Test Lab
– Networking
– Security
– Integration and Middleware
• 8 years F5 Networks
– Technical Marketing
– Evangelism
M.S. Computer Science

3. IT is an application world
Convenience New Services Personalization
Mobile apps influence 5.1%
of US retail store sales
roughly $159B in 2012
24
74% of innovative
organizations will monetize
new applications and
services.
Companies who personalized
experiences on average
achieved a sales uplift of 19
percent.

4. is the new measure of success
Time to market

5. That’s why orgs are changing
Sources: Version One, 8th Annual State of Agile. CA, What Smart Businesses Know About DevOps.
32PERCENT
41PERCENT
chose Agile to
accelerate time to market
chose DevOps to
accelerate time to market

6. Notice something missing?
Dev Ops
?

7. The network is in the way
of IT professionals surveyed say that once an
application completes the dev process, it takes
a week or more to move into production; for
14% of those, it’s a month or more.
43
PERCENT
Data: InformationWeek 2014 DevOps Survey, ESG
Organizations citing biggest challenge
to application deployments is time to
provision network services.
44
PERCENT

8. Change in infrastructure complexity over 12 to 24 months
Source: Information Technology Intelligence Consulting via GigaOm
Decreased somewhat
40%
50%Increased substantially
Increased somewhat
Remained the same
Decreased substantially
4%
1%
1%
Why is the network in the way?

9. Why is the network in the way?
CHANGES CAUSE
SERVICE
DISRUPTION
NETWORK
CHANGES ARE
SLOW
24% 22% 16% 12%
HARD TO
MANAGE
CHANGES TO THE
NETWORK
APPLICATION
CHANGES
REQUIRE
NETWORK
CHANGES
Source: IDC's Why the Network Matters Survey - November, 2012

10. because traditional methods
Scaling, provisioning and
management are realized
device by device, system by
system
Difficult to
troubleshoot
Time consumingError prone

11. are not speedy, safe or scalable
25,180
Average computing devices connected to
networks and/or enterprise systems
Data Breach: The Cloud Multiplier Effect Ponemon, June 2014
Desktop Laptop
Smartphone Tablet
Median device to engineer ratio, Computer Economics 2014
Small Biz Med Biz Large Ent

12. Dev Ops Network
Change with Devops 4 Networks

13. Isn’t DevOps Dev and Ops?

14. Security Network “Operations” Storage
O P E R AT I O N S
Net + Ops Has Same Issues as Dev + Ops

15. Turret Syndrome
• Don’t collaborate well
• Success is measured on
different metrics
• Handoffs are awkward and
cause bottlenecks
• Processes are inefficient and
burdened by a tower/silo
mentality (even within silos)

16. Operationalize
People collaborating and using
Programmability to optimize the
Processes necessary to meet business
Priorities
SHARING
AUTOMATION
MEASUREMENT

17. … all the network things
Router Switch
ADC
Firewall
STATELESS
LAYER 2-4
STATEFUL
LAYER 4-7
Application
Security
Identity and
Access
DDoS
Protectio
n
Local
Load
Balancing
Global
Load
Balancing
Application
Performance
Malware
Detection
Secure Web
Gateway
Application
Proxies

18. Value of IT to the business
IT contribution to strategy
Customer satisfaction
Innovative new ideas
Availability
Projects delivered on time
IT cost controls
Productivity improvement
Business cost controls
Revenue growth
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
CIO Priorities
Business Concerns
IT Concerns
Top 10
Align Priorities

19. Measure all deployment things
Measurements often associated with DevOps:
• Deploy frequency
• Volume of defects
• MTTR
• Number & Frequency of outages
• Number & Frequency of performance issues
• Time/cost per release (deployment)

20. Automate all the network things
• Time/cost per release (deployment)
• Volume of defects
• Number & Frequency of outages
MEASURES IMPACTED

21. Optimize all the process things
Remember .. automating poor processes accelerates the rate of failure
• Deploy frequency
• MTTR
• Time/cost per release (deployment)
MEASURES IMPACTED

22. Add some Dev to Your (Net) Ops
• Months / waterfall
• Manual configuration
• Product manuals
TRADITIONAL DEV (OPS)
• Minutes / agile
• Programmability / API’s
• Developer community

23. ALL
API-Enabled
infrastructure
is somewhat
or very
important
40
PERCENT
57
PERCENT
71
PERCENT
OF THOSE WHO SAY SDN WILL IMPACT THEIR ORG
OF THOSE WHO SAY DEVOPS WILL IMPACT THEIR ORG
Need to Code Score: 5

24. Operations
CONFIGURE VLAN
SET UP ROUTE
ADD A SNAT
MAKE A POOL
MAKE A NODE
MAKE A MEMBER
ADD MEMBER TO POOL
CONFIGURE VLAN
SET UP ROUTE
ADD A SNAT
MAKE A POOL
MAKE A NODE
MAKE A MEMBER
ADD MEMBER TO POOL
CONFIGURE VLAN
SET UP ROUTE
ADD APP POLICY
CONFIGURE LOG
CONNECT IDENTITY STORE
DEFINE GROUPS
ACTIVATE POLICY
BEFORE APIs

25. AFTER APIs
Operations
CONFIGURE VLAN
SET UP ROUTE
ADD A SNAT
MAKE A POOL
MAKE A NODE
MAKE A MEMBER
ADD MEMBER TO POOL
CONFIGURE VLAN
SET UP ROUTE
ADD APP POLICY
CONFIGURE LOG
CONNECT IDENTITY STORE
DEFINE GROUPS
ACTIVATE POLICY
CONFIGURE VLAN
SET UP ROUTE
ADD A SNAT
MAKE A POOL
MAKE A NODE
MAKE A MEMBER
ADD MEMBER TO POOL

26. TOOLS and FRAMEWORKS USING APIs to AUTOMATE

27. ALL
OF THOSE WHO SAY SDN WILL IMPACT THEIR ORG
OF THOSE WHO SAY DEVOPS WILL IMPACT THEIR ORG
Data path
programmability
is somewhat or
very important
42
PERCENT
51
PERCENT
100
PERCENT
Need to Code Score: 10

28. SDN APPS
DATA PATH
Routing &
Switching
CONTROL PLANEData path
programmability
enabled by SDN apps
that extend an SDN
controller
Data path
programmability enabled
by network services
directly
Programmability “in the network”
Performance Access and
Identity
Availability Security Mobility

29. ALL
App Templates
are somewhat or
very important
33
PERCENT
51
PERCENT
52
PERCENT
OF THOSE WHO SAY SDN WILL IMPACT THEIR ORG
OF THOSE WHO SAY DEVOPS WILL IMPACT THEIR ORG
Need to Code Score: 0-2

30. App Templates vs Feature-driven APIs

31. ANSIBLE Vagrant
App Templates
Template –like systems

32. Operationalize all the
NETWORK things
Lori MacVittie
Principal Technical Evangelist @ F5 Networks
@lmacvittie