AppSphere 15 - Process, Culture and Tools: The Transformation of Gannett and USA Today to the DevOps Mindset

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Gannett – who are we?


Where were we?









Manual Actions?

Where we’re going, we don’t need Manual Actions!




Stakeholders

•  Developers •  Ops Teams

•  Security •  Finance




•  Pets are unique, hand raised and cared for •  Pets are given names (important-instance-2) •  Pets get sick, you nurse them back to health


•  Cattle are almost identical to other cattle •  Cattle are given numbers (vm0055) •  Cattle get sick, you replace them
















Automated Deployment



New Toolset


•  Comfortable with AppD •  Python Agent •  Full end to end visibility •  True Partnership

Visibility Into End Users Performance






1) Self Service

2) Governance

3) Cost visibility

4) Scale up/down





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Thank You Erik Bursch

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AppSphere 15 - Process, Culture and Tools: The Transformation of Gannett and USA Today to the DevOps Mindset

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