Delivering Better Software Faster (Without Breaking Everything)
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The document outlines a webinar focused on how DevOps can enhance software delivery processes, featuring insights from Andrew Phillips and Matt Meservey. It emphasizes the importance of automation and orchestration through tools like SaltStack and Xebialabs to address pain points such as scaling issues and process delays. Additionally, case studies highlight significant improvements in enterprise environments, advocating for a data-driven approach to continuous delivery in complex systems.
Delivering Better Software Faster (Without Breaking Everything)
- 1. | Delivering Better Software Faster (Without Breaking Everything) March 16, 2016
- 2. 2 | Housekeeping ▪ This webinar is being recorded ▪ Links to the slides and the recording will be made available after the presentation ▪ Post your questions via the GoToWebinar Control Panel
- 3. 3 | Meet Your Presenters Andrew Phillips VP of DevOps Strategy, XebiaLabs ▪ Lots of Enterprise Software Development on High- Performance Systems ▪ Been on Both Sides of the “Dev…Ops” Fence ▪ Active Open Source Contributor and Committer ▪ Former data center administrator ▪ Professional services refugee ▪ 15+ years in infrastructure deployment and management ▪ 10+ Years delivering enterprise software Matt Meservey Director of Product SaltStack
- 4. 4 | Agenda • What can DevOps do for my organization? • How SaltStack & XebiaLabs help • From DevOps to Enterprise DevOps • Case studies • Q&A 4
- 5. 5 | • Data-driven automation for digital business • Built for speed to automate cloud and Web scale • Open, flexible, efficient and integrated • SaltStack automates: CloudOps; ITOps; DevOps SaltStack Automation and Orchestration Scalable, flexible, intelligent automation for any Ops
- 6. 6 | § Continuous Delivery and DevOps pioneer, authority and technology leader § Global team in US, Europe & APAC § Consistently recognized by leading industry analysts Connecting the dots for Continuous Delivery at enterprise scale About XebiaLabs VISIBILITY AUTOMATION CONTROL
- 7. 7 | Award-winning tools, recognized by leading industry analysts Orchestrate, automate and get visibility into release pipelines Automate and standardize complex application deployments Analyze test results across multiple test tools XebiaLabs Solutions: Connecting the dots for Continuous Delivery at enterprise scale
- 9. 9 | What can DevOps do for my organizaEon? • Waterfall à agile: 3 years • 220 Apps - 1 deployment per month • “EVERY manual tester does automaFon” • “We don’t log bugs. We fix them.” • Measures are built in & visible to everyone • Promote your wins! Educate your peers. • EVERYONE can do conFnuous delivery.
- 10. 10 | What can DevOps do for my organizaEon? ▪ DevOps is a means, not a goal ▪ There is no “standard DevOps template” that to apply ▪ There are common elements to many of the DevOps success stories that we can learn from
- 12. 12 | Three Pain Points to Address Today ▪ Inability to scale ▪ Bo[lenecks & delays ▪ MisconfiguraFons ▪ Bug-hunts ▪ Inaccurate test results & wasted test Fme ▪ … #1: Environment/infra work is far too manual and error-prone
- 13. 13 | Three Pain Points to Address Today ▪ Incomplete knowledge of the full process ▪ Lack of insight into actual causes of delay & error ▪ “Black box” for stakeholders ▪ Also, becoming more and more complex as mobile, IoT etc. are thrown into the mix #2: The end-to-end process of getting code from dev to prod is too slow and error-prone
- 14. 14 | Three Pain Points to Address Today ▪ AcceleraFng delivery requires significant automated tesFng capabiliFes ▪ More automated tests = more spurious failures, more “needle-in-a-haystack” problems, longer execuFon Fmes, etc. ▪ Need to be able to make sense of all the test data quickly and with confidence #3: How to maintain quality?
- 15. 15 | Enter SaltStack + XebiaLabs How do SaltStack & XebiaLabs help? ▪ SaltStack handles all infrastructure automation and orchestration: − De-couple teams − Have confidence in our tests − Cut out the biggest source of delays and failures in the release process ▪ XL Release maps out and executes the full end-to-end delivery process: − Continuous insight − Supporting real world processes consisting of manual and automated steps − Collecting and making available the data needed to improve the process
- 16. 16 | Enter SaltStack + XebiaLabs
- 17. 17 | XL Release: Visibility & Orchestration for the Software Release Pipeline Invoke SaltStack and all your other automaFon and process tasks
- 18. 18 | From DevOps to Enterprise DevOps In an enterprise environment, there are many additional factors that need to be considered: 1. Top-down vs. bo[om-up 2. Outcome vs. technology 3. Cross-cucng concerns 4. StandardizaFon 5. Dev(.+)Ops …
- 19. 19 | From DevOps to Enterprise DevOps SaltStack & XebiaLabs products excel in these environments: ▪ Large, geographically distributed environments ▪ Diverse, exisFng runFme technologies and adjacent tools ▪ Scaling to “non-hero” teams and groups ▪ Handling enterprise requirements ▪ SupporFng standardizaFon and a metrics-driven approach ▪ Providing insight and visibility ▪ …
- 20. Enterprise Adoption of SaltStack SaltStack automates the “Ops” in DevOps for intelligent orchestration Automation Integration Data Driven Responsive SaltStack for ITOps Systems administrators Site reliability engineers IT operators Data center architectsSaltStack for DevOps DevOps Software engineers Developers DevOps ITOps SaltStack specializes automating the creation of dev and prod environments and intelligently orchestrating applications, code and workloads into production on any infrastructure.
- 21. 21 | • Automate maintenance of massive infrastructure • Deploy and configuration complex application stacks • Reduce infrastructure costs by 60% IntuitFinancial and tax-preparation software… …using SaltStack to: &
- 22. 22 | • Orchestrate multi-cloud environments with tens of thousands of systems • Moving applications and workloads from on-premise environments to cloud TD BankBuilding the bank of the future… …using SaltStack to: &
- 23. 23 | Case study
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- 26. 26 | Case study ▪ Improvement and opEmizaEon driven by business need ▪ Significant improvement in a very short space of Eme ▪ Able to opEmize their process to producEon in a highly regulated environment, while remaining in compliance with their enterprise requirements ▪ Now have the data to tackle the next hurdles, many of which are indeed process-related and not "just another script away“ ▪ Team is delivering much faster and is happier, too
- 27. 27 | 3 Takeaways 1. DevOps is something you should be investigating and implementing now, but remember that it’s a means, rather than a goal 2. In an enterprise context, many requirements beyond core automation need to be addressed 3. SaltStack & XebiaLabs tools excel at delivering value in complex enterprise environment
- 28. 28 | Recognition and Awards APRIL 19-21 Salt Lake City, UT 70sessions 3days XebiaLabs $400 off discount code: SALT5D54
- 29. 29 | Next Steps XebiaLabs is a Proud Sponsor of SaltConf16. Be our guest and get $400 off the registration price using code SALT5D54 http://saltconf.com/register/
- 30. | Questions?
- 31. | Thank you!