Navigating the minefield.
Implementing DevOps in a large organisation
Guy Gershoni@ihadyoujohnny
Big vs Small
Ready to Change?
Change from above
Does everyone agree there is a problem?
Does everyone know what DevOps means?
Change from below
How to work with da Power/s?
Worth taking risks?
Change from outside
Don't bite off too much!
Move in haste slowly.
Change vs Stability
From DevOps for Developers
What to overcome to co-operate?
KPIs (Key Performance Indicators)
Align KPIs or even better just get rid of them.
Empires
More GoT than Walt Disney (no good/bad guys)
Just putting food on the table
Office Politics
Office Politics
Clearing the Path
Get Buy In
Avoid
Steamroll
Mentor over Gift Wrap
Don't just build solution... build tools and expertise.
Vendor and In-house
team interview Vendor/Company resources
can organise/on-board all stakeholders?
survive setbacks?
Appropriate Project Goals
Plan sequential mini projects (while the funding is there).
Challenge the status quo (why, why, why...)
Model/cost of licensing
Increase Gradually
DSH (Distributed Shell) or try "Command + Shift + I" on iTerm2
Scripts
Capistrano
Puppet
Docker/Cloud
beyond...
Planned Points of Failure
Let people grow to understand problems and appreciate tools/solutions.
Capex vs Opex
Project Leeches
Is the project being used
now
next year
3 years
10 year... hmm
Surprising Success
Large project can be successful... even when it isn't
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