This document discusses patterns and practices for a successful DevOps transformation. It outlines key challenges organizations face with manual processes, silos, and infrequent releases. The document then presents patterns for overcoming these challenges through cloud automation, continuous delivery, and reinforcing a DevOps culture. Examples are provided of organizations that have successfully transformed. The document concludes that infrastructure and applications must be rapidly and safely deployed through automation, cloud technologies, and cultural changes to achieve a DevOps transformation.

1. Patterns and Practices of a Successful DevOps
Transformation
James Casey,VP of Partner Engineering | james@chef.io

2. Chef: Leader in the DevOps Market
Born with the
DevOps movement
Provider to web
leaders and the
enterprise
Understands
DevOps success
patterns
Distilled these
patterns into the
Chef platform

3. What is Chef?

4. DevOps: The culture of innovating at velocity
• A technical and cultural movement with
automation at its core
• A faster and safer way to deliver value to
customers
• A set of practices established by web
innovators that are now being adopted by
enterprises of all kinds.

5. “Together, Chef and Microsoft are empowering DevOps adoption in
the enterprise with integrated technologies that improve
collaboration and speed software development.”
- Jeffrey Snover,Technical Fellow and Lead Architect for Windows Server, Microsoft

6. Quality and innovation, historically a tradeoffQUALITY/COMPLIANCE
RATE OF INNOVATION

7. Challenges
Manual processes
Weeks to setup new systems or software
Legacy systems and tools
Inflexible, hard-to-change hardware and software
Organizational silos
Unwieldy divisions of responsibility
Infrequent, large releases
Fear of deployment due to risk to SLAs
Regulatory burdens
Compliance bottleneck at the end of a project

8. Manual processes
Weeks to setup new systems or software
Legacy systems and tools
Inflexible, hard-to-change hardware and software
Organizational silos
Unwieldy divisions of responsibility
Regulatory burdens
Compliance bottleneck at the end of a project
Infrequent, large releases
Fear of deployment due to risk to SLAs
Compliance at velocity
Integration of compliance into the workflow using automated
tests
Increased cooperation and trust
Teams are aligned towards common goals
Dynamic infrastructure
Easy migration to on-demand, cloud-based infrastructure and
management of heterogeneous networks
Automation
New systems and software updates deployed in minutes
Continuous delivery of infrastructure and
applications
Safe, rapid delivery of incremental value
Solutions to the challenges

9. The game changer: rapid time to value
Innovation
Quality/
Compliance

10. Steps to a successful DevOps transformation
Patterns
Examples
Practices

11. Steps to a successful DevOps transformation
Patterns
Examples
Practices

12. The right way to DevOps
Infrastructure and Applications must be rapidly
deployed in a verifiable, repeatable and safe manner
Cloud Automation Culture
+ +
Key Patterns:

13. Cloud – the path to dynamic infrastructure
Migrate applications to the cloud and support hybrid and multi-cloud
environments.Automate the management of heterogeneous
networks, including legacy systems.
• Provisioning and setting up environments
• Dynamic scaling of compute resources
• Migrating legacy workloads to the cloud
• Multi cloud and hybrid cloud deployment
• Support for heterogeneous environments

14. Automation
Turn infrastructure into code—infrastructure as code is versionable,
testable and repeatable. Manual processes become a thing of the
past.
• Automated, full-stack application policies
• Package and service installation
• Versionable, testable, repeatable workflow
• Scalable application policies
• Management of interdependencies across nodes

15. DevOps workflow & culture
Eliminate silos and lower the overhead of IT operations and service
management by supporting DevOps culture. Build communities.
• Unified workflow for application and infrastructure
• Integration with version control for development and
operations
• Support for automated testing of infrastructure and
applications
• Integration of security and compliance into product
development
• Advanced, high-velocity workflow

16. The rewards?*
*source: Dr. Nicole Forsgren research on DevOps
More deployments
Ship faster
Faster MTR after issues
More profits, market share, and productivity
Market cap goes up

17. Continuous delivery of infrastructure & apps
Implement a high-velocity software delivery pipeline that integrates
application and infrastructure. Eliminate the risks incurred with large,
infrequent releases.
• Rapid provisioning of development and test
environments
• Ensure consistency and repeatability of environments
• Unified pipeline for infrastructure, runtime
environments and applications
• Support for large teams with multiple projects
• Advanced, high-velocity workflow

18. Security and compliance at velocity
Regulatory compliance and security concerns are facts of life for
every enterprise.At the same time, competitive pressures are
increasing. Embed requirements into the software delivery pipeline.
Makes compliance at velocity possible.
• Embed compliance into the software delivery pipeline
• Automated checking of compliance criteria with
analytics
• Structured review process during development
• Discovery and analysis
• Patch management and remediation

19. Chef provides a proven approach to DevOps
Apps
Runtime
environments
Infrastructure
...
...
...
Targets/Workloads
Collaborative Development
Chef Analytics
Production
Chef Server
Chef Server
Chef Supermarket
Assessment
Chef Compliance
Search
Audit
Discover
Provision
Deploy
Test
Chef Delivery
Local Development
Model
Build
Test
Chef Development Kit
Chef Client & Cookbooks

20. Knife Windows plugin
supports:
• Bootstrapping Windows servers
using winrm or ssh
• Remote command execution using
winrm or ssh
Chef Development Kit
available for Windows
Full Chef developer experience
available on Windows
Test kitchen support
for Azure
Instantiate LinuxVMs as part
of test runs
Chef and Microsoft integration points

21. • Native Chef integration in Azure portal
• Azure SDKTools PowerShell cmdlets
• Knife Azure plugin lets you:
• CreateVM instances managed by Chef Server
• Deploy applications through the Azure API
• Enumerate instances and images
• Delete instances from Azure and Chef
• Instant Access in Azure Marketplace
• First-class Powershell DSC support
Chef and Microsoft integration points

22. Steps to a successful DevOps transformation
Patterns
Examples
Practices

23. Success Example: Intuit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YA3VXAQqDi4

24. Success Example: Application Deployment

25. Success Example: Top Five Global Bank

26. Steps to a successful DevOps transformation
Patterns
Examples
Practices

27. Transformation is messy

28. DevOps Accelerants
OurTools:
•DevOps Journey Map – stages of maturity
•DoJo Assessment – where you are; where you want to be; how to get there
•DevOps Acceleration Workshop – Boot Camp for ‘Aldo’ (agile; lean; DevOps)
•Agile Coaching
You Your Culture YourTooling

29. • Packaged workstation binaries created
• Local development workflow defined
• Test -> Code -> Test practice
• Multiple teams contributing code
• Source control & code review practices
in place
• Code repository layouts defined
• Continuous Integration tools in place
• Standard Chef code testing jobs defined
• Quality reporting defined
• Standard Chef code deployment jobs
defined
• Deployment reporting defined
• Cookbook pipeline process implemented
Phase 1: Beginning the Automation Journey
Local Development Code Collaboration Continuous Integration Chef Code Deployment
• Application deployment process defined
• Dev -> Test -> QA -> Prod environments
consistent
• “Smoke” testing defined
• API-driven virtualization platform
implemented
• Kickstart/JEOS templates defined
• Chef run lists defined as “packaged apps”
• Storage/Network automation
implemented
• End-to-end testing defined
• End user interface driving “packaged app”
deployment
• Application deployment pipelines
complete from Dev -> Test -> QA ->
Prod
• Entire software/infrastructure stack
treated as one
Phase 2:The Road to DevOps
Application Deployment Virtualization as a Service Full Stack Automation Continuous Deployment
Your DevOps Journey Map

30. Example Result Set
DevOps Journey Assessment

31. 2 Day Fundamentals Training
1 Day Hackathon
1 Week Implementation Design
Action packed week of on-site Chef training for
groups up to 15.
Discuss your automation needs and identify
project goals with key stakeholders.
Create Chef Implementation Design based on
information collected and input received.
Implementation Design
Write-Up and Review
Review key outputs and Implementation Design
with your team.
Chef architecture, application deployment,
continuous integration, environments, etc.
Select a candidate application to take for full
test drive at speed with Chef.
Outline critical success factors for the
remainder of your journey to awesome.
Manage an Application in
Production Using Chef
Our team will mentor your team through
getting your application fully managed.
We will actively guide your team with
scheduled reviews and check-ins.
Build your future with:
• Application Deployment
• Full Stack Automation
• Continuous Delivery
1 2 3READY SET AWESOME
Learn Plan Experience
What does a typical start on the Journey look like?
Chef Accelerator Program

32. Steps to a successful DevOps transformation
Patterns
Examples
Practices

33. Go Fast Safely:AllowTeams to Build Code and Automate Systems
• Infrastructure as Code
• Containers as Code
• Policy as Code
• Process as Code
• Applications
Reinforce the right
behaviors to collaborate
safely on code at velocity
Culture
Automation
Cloud
Build, deploy, and manage
infrastructure and
applications anywhere
Migrate applications to the
cloud and support hybrid and
multi-cloud environments
version
collaborate
consistently
test
automatically
Deploy
Anywhere
● On-premise
● Cloud
● Hybrid-
Cloud
Configuration
Automation
Workflow
ApplicationInfrastructure

34. Chef provides a proven approach to DevOps
Apps
Runtime
environments
Infrastructure
...
...
...
Targets/Workloads
Collaborative Development
Chef Analytics
Production
Chef Server
Chef Server
Chef Supermarket
Assessment
Chef Compliance
Search
Audit
Discover
Provision
Deploy
Test
Chef Delivery
Local Development
Model
Build
Test
Chef Development Kit
Chef Client & Cookbooks

35. Q & A

36. Every business is a software business
We’re no longer an airline.We’re a software
company with wings.
–Veresh Sita, CIO,Alaska Airlines