The document discusses the need for a new cloud team that brings together developers and operations staff. It notes that currently developers and IT have different needs that are not being met, leading to conflicts. When developers deploy applications on their own, many issues can arise around scalability, backups, security and other operational concerns. The document advocates for bringing developers and operations staff together early in the process through a platform team focused on automating deployments, ensuring high availability and scalability, implementing monitoring, and adopting a DevOps approach and culture.

1. Why your cloud needs a new team Kris Buytaert

2. Kris Buytaert

3. A typical Cloud Deployment As seen by the marketing departement Because Internal IT is to expensive

4. Because IT takes 6 months for a machine to be delivered and our campaign goes live next week

5. Because our CMS isn't an approved platform

6. Because there are no “stupid” policies to follow

7. A typical Cloud Deployment As seen by the developers Because Internal IT doesn't provide Ubuntu

8. Because Internal IT doesn't provide the latest and brightest PHP version

9. Because Internal IT doesn't support Drupal

10. Because Internal IT only provides Postgress

11. Because Internal IT doesn't put our changes in production fast enough

12. Devs vs Ops

13. Disaster Strikes Platform team wasn't involved There are No Backups

14. Site crashes frequently and there is no HA

15. It is dead slow Security wasn't involved Users are being added manually

16. Spammers have fun

17. And the site is being hijacked ..

18. 11 days into operations

19. So you've installed your box Can you do it again ?