Watch this talk on our YouTube Channel here: Change is hard, especially when it involves multiple teams across multiple departments working together in new ways at a large organization in a heavily regulated industry. Join Mae Large, Russ Parmer, and Priyanka “Pinky” Ravi as they reflect back on their time together implementing GitOps to achieve a better experience for more than 7000 developers! During this session they share key learnings from their early days of assessing GitOps as an idea and methodology to how it evolved into the de facto automated software change process in less than 1 year. Key takeaways from this talk: - The value of a GitOps Platform Team - How to take advantage of your existing toolbox - How to address audit, compliance, risk/security, change management concerns or requirements - How to support and improve upon the process continually regardless of changes in tooling, people, etc. Speaker Bios: Mae Large is currently a Staff Field Engineer at VMware. She has worked as a software developer/engineer throughout her career starting in the Philippines where she was born and raised. She had the opportunity to work in Finland and in India at a consulting capacity. She worked at a large insurance company for 15 years in various roles focused on SDLC (software dev life cycle) and drove the Delivery Engineering topic where she continuously simplified how features (code change) ultimately makes it to the hands of customers. This same topic is what she's currently engaged in at VMware as a field engineer, focusing on providing a sustainable and secure software supply chain to customers. Russ Parmer is a Senior Technology Engineer. His primary focus has been helping to enable and mature the CI/CD practices for public cloud and Kubernetes environments. He began his career in retail management before being blessed with the opportunity to return to school. In 2015 he earned a Bachelor of Science in Software Engineering degree from Arizona State University. He likes to tell people he took the ‘scenic route’ through college, but it is more of a reminder that it’s never too late to achieve your dreams. He’s been married to his fantastic wife for 12 years and they have 2 (mostly) wonderful children (ages 8 and 6) that do their best to keep their parents on their toes. He and his wife both enjoy fitness and the outdoors. Priyanka “Pinky” Ravi is a Developer Experience Engineer at Weaveworks. She has worked on a multitude of topics including front end development, UI automation for testing and API development. Previously she was a software developer at a large insurance company where she was on the delivery engineering team working on GitOps enablement. She was instrumental in the multi-tenancy migration to utilize Flux for an internal Kubernetes offering. Outside of work, Priyanka enjoys hanging out with her husband and two rescue dogs as well as traveling around the globe.

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March 30, 2022
From Zero to
GitOps Heroes!
Mae Large Staff Field Engineer
Russ Parmer Senior Technology Engineer
Priyanka Ravi Developer Experience Engineer
Stacey Potter, Community Manager,

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Weaveworks is founded on open source
● Flux & Flagger (CNCF): GitOps and Progressive Delivery for k8s
● Cortex (CNCF): Distributed, Long-term-storage TSDB compatible with
Prometheus
● Weave Ignite: VMs with container UX & built-in GitOps management
● EKSctl: Create an Amazon EKS cluster with one command
● (and many many more projects!)
And now … Weave GitOps!
weave.works

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Mae Large
Staff Field Engineer
Russ Parmer
Senior Technology
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Priyanka Ravi
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Weaveworks
Stacey Potter
Community Manager
Weaveworks
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● GitOps is an app dev and operations methodology
● GitOps is a methodology, not a specific tool or
technology.
● GitOps applies to everything
and brings business value.
What is GitOps?...and why do I want it?

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Source: GitOps Working Group
https://opengitops.dev/

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👋 Get Connected 💬 🤝
● ⭐ Give Flux a star on GitHub ⭐
● Check out the Flux docs at: fluxcd.io/docs/get-started/
● GitHub Discussions Q&A:
https://github.com/fluxcd/flux2/discussions/categories/q-a
● CNCF Slack #Flux channel (or get a slack invite)

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Mar 31: GitOps for Helm Users!
Apr 7: GitOps with Flux on AKS
Apr 27: Reconcile Terraform Resources the GitOps Way!
May 16-20: Visit the Flux Booth at KubeCon!
June 8-9: GitOps Days 2022! (gitopsdays.com)
Upcoming Events

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Talk time! 🎤

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Introductions
Mae Large
Staff Field
Engineer
Russ Parmer
Sr. Technology
Engineer
Priyanka Ravi
Dev. Experience
Engineer

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● The GitOps spark 🧨
● Need for change and benefits of GitOps 🚀
● Internal pushback 󰚁 󰤈 🧐 | 󰬾 󰭂 󰭉
● Dedicated team 🙌 󰢦󰚐󰢧
Setting the Stage

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POCs
● Ensure requirements are met
○ Multi-cloud
○ Compliance
○ Security/Risk
○ Change Management
● Convincing and demonstrating the value
● Filling in the gaps
○ API
○ CLI
○ Config Repo Setup

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Multi-Tenancy Kubernetes
● Collaborating with the Kubernetes platform team
● Adopting a declarative pattern and utilizing Flux
○ Migrating from API driven flow to utilizing Flux to manage tenants
● Migration to Flux2
○ Workshop with Weaveworks team

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Education / Evangelizing
● Why is it critical to success?
● Onboarding
● Internal Roadshows
● Evangelizing

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Operations
● Metrics/Observability: Prometheus & Grafana
○ Surfacing the value that our customers get out of GitOps
○ Deployment events
○ Change lead time
○ Change size
● Governance
○ Instant Notifications
● Hardening
○ Credential management
○ Embrace policy as code

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Lessons Learned/Advice
● Community involvement
● Be patient, it takes time
● Dedicated Team
● Standardize/Establish best practices
● Outages happen
○ Flux git deploy secrets

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How to get in touch with us
Mae Large
Twitter: @MayLarge
LinkedIn
Russ Parmer
LinkedIn
Priyanka Ravi
Twitter: @PinkyyRavi
LinkedIn

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Questions?