What business benefits from DevOps 
DevOps from other perspective 
Erno Aapa 
DevOps-consultant 
erno.aapa@avaus.fi 
Twitter: @ernoaapa
ERNO AAPA 
DevOps-consultant 
Team Leader 
Founder of DevOps-Finland 
Twitter: @ernoaapa 
Avaus tech team leaders and consult 
companies about DevOps. Also daily work 
as a senior / lead developer. 
Organize DevOps-Finland meetings. 
Who am I? 
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Free open group for everyone 
1,5+ year old 
12 meetings so far 
23 presentations 
370+ members 
2 cities (Helsinki, Tampere and soon Oulu!) 
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DevOps Finland 
.com/devops-finland
DevOps 
”There is no manifesto, 
so it evolves all the time”
What DevOps is not… 
Most common misunderstandings
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Hello I’m mr. DevOps! 
• No it’s not a single person! 
• No it’s not a role! 
• No it’s not a title!
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DevOps-team! 
No it’s not a “yet-another-new-team” in the company!
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Automated testing IS NOT DevOps 
It’s called Continuous Integration! 
Automated infrastructure IS NOT DevOps 
It’s called Infrastructure As Code! 
Automated deployment IS NOT DevOps 
It’s called Continuous Delivery & Deployment!
Lets take a look to our history…
⌙ Wheel 
One enables another 
⌙ Paper ingredients 
⌙ Printing press 
⌙ Books 
⌙ …
Evolution of transportation 
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Walk Horse Ship Train Car / Truck Airplane
XP Agile Kanban 
History 
Software 
Crisis! 
1990 2000 2010 
ITIL 
Scrum 
ITIL v3 
Internet
Example: HEDGEHOG INC. 
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Waterfall 
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Agile / Scrum 
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Continuous Integration (CI) 
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Information Technology 
Infrastructure Library (ITIL) 
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There is always 
Constraint
“World ain’t same anymore“
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2000- From product to service shift
When consumer buys a car (product) he 
wants that it has all possible features, but… 
…when he uses taxi (service) it doesn’t 
matter what features it has, 
just that it takes him from A to B
2009: Lean Startup 
- Minimum Viable Product 
- Build – Measure – Learn 
- Continuous Deployment 
- Split Testing 
- Actionable Metrics 
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Minimum Viable Product 
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New requirements for developers and operations 
• Fast, tested, fail safe, small changes continuously 
deployed to production 
• Measure, share visibility and provide feedback of 
users to business, continuously. 
• Small experiments, test assumptions, fail fast and 
learn! 
• Capability to pivot rapidly and often 
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TADAA! 
And that’s what it’s all about
Three ways 
System thinking 
Culture Ops 
Feedback 
(customer) 
Dev 
(business) 
By Gene Kim
Think your whole development process as a 
system where single change is the item. 
How can you make the process 
better, faster, smooth and error safe? 
-System thinking
If you don’t measure, you cannot improve. 
It’s like driving car eyes blinded! 
-Feedback
Understanding that repetition and 
practice is the prerequisite to mastery! 
-Culture of continuous experimenting and learning
DevOps 
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DevOps 
“Gives capability to do rapid and 
experimental business, safely”
Where should we start?
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Understand 
Your processes
Pinpoint the bottlenecks and 
pain points
Take small steps, together
Culture How we can encourage to collaboration and communication? 
Automation Is there any repetitive, error prone work to automate? 
Lean Focus on removing waste, delivering value in small batches 
Measurement Provide feedback to everyone! 
Sharing Share everything!
Before 
Deployment: 15min manual work 
Once in a month 
DEV OPS
And then bad happen… 
Get 
everything 
running 
Back to development 
CRASH! 
Get new servers 
Over 
2 months!
Now if bad happen… 
Get new servers 
Back 
Less than 
30min! 
CRASH! 
to deve lop ment
After 
Deployment: 1-click 
Every week 
DEV OPS
REMEMBER: It’s not just deployment 
DEV 
BUS OPS
How much does it cost?
Would you made this change? 
It’s not free, but worth it in long term.
“Reinvent new combinations of what you 
already own. Improvise. Become more 
creative. Not because you have to, but 
because you want to. Evolution is the 
secret for the next step.” 
- Karl Lagerfeld
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Need a hand? 
Come and meet us!
Need help? 
Contact! 
Erno Aapa 
@ernoaapa 
erno.aapa@avaus.fi

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