Enterprise Cloud Forum: “Tearing Down Silos and Building your Enterprise Dev/Ops Engine” Presented By: Rackspace Advisory Services
Aug 20, 2015
Enterprise Cloud Forum:
“Tearing Down Silos and Building your
Enterprise Dev/Ops Engine”
Presented By:
Rackspace Advisory Services
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Your Hosts
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Brian Jawalka
Sr. IT Strategist
Enterprise Cloud Solutions
Rackspace Hosting
Krishna Prasad
VP, Software Application
Development
Rackspace Hosting
Mark Majewski
Architect
Enterprise Cloud Solutions
Rackspace Hosting
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What We Will Cover Today
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What is Dev/Ops and Why is it SO Important?
The Evolution of Dev/Ops
How Rackspace is Approaching Dev/Ops
How to Build Your Engine: The 5 keys to
Dev/Ops Success
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A New Way of Thinking
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Virtualization is a TECHNOLOGY …
Cloud Computing is a
BUSINESS MODEL
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Current State Drivers
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What Do We Know…
Time to Market drives PROFITABILITY
50% Faster Time to Market = 31% more profit
– First mover advantage
– Commands higher initial product price points for early adopters
Continued Pressure to do MORE with Less
CIOs are challenged to do the SAME with Budgets from 2006
Source: The Market Driven Organization, George S. Day
Forrester Research, Inc. Forrsights Hardware Survey Q3 2011
31%
Source: Douglas Toombs, Gartner Research Director, “Lead From the Front:
The Road to the Hybrid Cloud”, June 6, 2012 presentation
$ Budgets
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Successful Dev/Ops Innovators
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Let’s Think About…
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Using Dev/Ops to Your Advantage
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Communication… Collaboration … Integration
Dev/Ops Org Structure is Driven by Cloud Adoption
Operations:
Deeper
Application
Knowledge
Developers:
Understands Code
Impacts
Infrastructure
TWO IN A BOX
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The Evolution of DevOps PHYSICAL WALL
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Developer Operations
“I am going to build to
whatever platform I want.”
“I’m not ops focused.
Scalability isn’t something
I think about.”
“How am I going to run
this thing?”
“How am I going to scale
this application?”
PHYSICAL
WALL
Step 1 Step 2
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The Evolution of DevOps PROCESS WALL
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Developer Operations
PHYSICAL
WALL
Step 1 Step 2
PROCESS
WALL
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The Evolution of DevOps REMOVE THE WALLS
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DEVOPS
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Dev + Ops
On the same train
Why is a Mandate for Dev/Ops Important?
Collaboration Incites
Innovation!
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DevOps is about people, process, and technology producing outcomes
Release once per month Release once per day
Dev/Ops Creates a Continuous Delivery Model
Source: DriveDev
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What Does this Mean for your IT shop?
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Enhancing Development Skills:
– Platform-Based Development
– Scalable Applications
– Stateless Applications
Enhancing Operations Skills:
– Scripting or coding
– Automation
– Infrastructure via APIs
Standardized Platform:
– Not infinitely
customizable
– Limitations
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The Rackspace IT Story
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Drive
to the
OPEN
CLOUD
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Creating a Dev/Ops Mandate
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KEYS TO SUCCESS
•Long-term Strategy
•Organization Alignment
•Project Definition
•Dev/Ops Expertise
•Continuous Feedback Loop
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Long-Term
Strategy
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Build
Your
Strategic
Vision
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Organization Alignment
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• Top Down
Support
• Executive
Sponsorship
• Identify your
Champions
• Organization
Realignment
MOST IMPORTANT!
FRONT LINE BUY-IN
“What’s in it for me?
Developer Operations • Bleeding edge
technology excitement
• Eliminates frustration
with Ops timelines
• Influence on what is
in pipeline
You’ll
provide true
biz value!
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Build your Dev/Ops CLOUD SQUAD
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CLOUD
SQUAD
Cross-Functional Team:
– Developers
– Operations
– Finance/Business
Person
Forces us to
answer the
“SO WHAT”
question
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Project Definition
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• Build Attack Plan
• Identify Quick Wins
• EXPERIMENT!
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We Now Need to Think About… Building Cloud Aware Applications
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• Built for Resilience & Error Tolerance
• Loosely Coupled Components
• Preserved & Recoverable Application State
CLOUD-AWARE
APPLICATION
DEVELOPMENT
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Expertise
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Don’t Wing It…
You can NOT
leave this
transition to
chance.
CLOUD ARCHITECTS
• In-house Dev/Ops Expertise
• Bring in EXPERTS
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Continuous Feedback Loop
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Life Before & After DevOps
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What’s happening today?
• Recreating the wheel
– Write once
– Never update
– Start fresh & write again
• Provisioning delay
– Long lead times
– Heavy CAPEX expenditure
– Longer time to market
Where we need to be?
• Perfecting the wheel
– Write once
– Deploy many
– Deploy Often
• Instant Provisioning
– Instant deployment
– Utility pricing
– Continuous deployment
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Cloud Application Transformation Framework
On-Going Optimization
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IT
Evolution
Workshop
Application
Profiling
Exercise
Cloud
Readiness
Assessment
Solution
Design
Migrate/
Implement
Environment
Realization
Plan/Build/Deploy Assess Strategize
Customer
Data Center
RACKSPACE ENTERPRISE CLOUD SOLUTIONS
“Cloud HOW?” “Cloud NOW”
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Rackspace Cloud Solution Architects
Dev/Ops EXPERTS…
Dedicated to teaching you…
How to build applications…
For the Cloud…
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Phone: 1-800-440-1249
Email : [email protected]
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Get SMART on Cloud
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Rackspace Advisory Services:
Phone: 1-800-440-1249
Email : [email protected]
Website: rackspace.com/Advisory Services
“Our goal is to create the most
CLOUD SAVVY customers in the industry”
Recommended Rackspace Resources: • Cloud: Vision to Reality whitepaper (right side of page)
• Cloud: Economics whitepaper (right side of page)
• Take the Cloud Readiness Self Assessment
• Use cases:
– Hybrid Hosting: Dominos Pizza and watch the video
– RackConnect™: VEVO and watch the video
– Private Cloud: Lighthouse1
Recommended Industry Resources:
• The Big Switch, Nicholas Carr
• Cloudonomics: The Business Value of Cloud Computing, Joe Weinman
• www.Cloudability.com
• http://gigaom.com/
• www.gartner.com
• www.forrester.com
• www.idc.com
Rackspace Knowledge Center
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What We Covered Today
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What is Dev/Ops and Why is it SO Important?
The Evolution of Dev/Ops
How Rackspace is Approaching Dev/Ops
How to Build Your Engine: The 5 keys to
Dev/Ops Success
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THANK YOU
Phone: 1-800-440-1249
Email : [email protected]
Website: rackspace.com/Advisory Services