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DevOps is a software engineering culture and practice that aims at unifying software development (Dev) and software operation (Ops). The main characteristic of the DevOps movement is to strongly advocate automation and monitoring at all steps of software construction, from integration, testing, releasing to deployment and infrastructure management. DevOps aims at shorter development cycles, increased deployment frequency, more dependable releases, in close alignment with business objectives.
DevOps is a software engineering culture and practice that aims at unifying software development (Dev) and software operation (Ops). The main characteristic of the DevOps movement is to strongly advocate automation and monitoring at all steps of software construction, from integration, testing, releasing to deployment and infrastructure management. DevOps aims at shorter development cycles, increased deployment frequency, more dependable releases, in close alignment with business objectives.
11:10 - 11:55 | A survivor's guide to rolling out DevOps to a large enterprise-scale organisation
11:10 - 11:55 | A survivor's guide to rolling out DevOps to a large enterprise-scale organisation
Attending conferences and reading about DevOps on the web is always very heavy on theory, but is always very light about the practicalities of how to actually do it. How, for example, do you go about convincing senior management to undertake the DevOps journey? How do you get a release consisting of 100s of different products into a standard DevOps approach and is such a thing even possible? Well, look no further!
This session is intended to cover some of these practical questions. During our 30 or so minutes together, we will look at the DevOps journey undertaken by one of the world’s largest retail groups (no names mentioned to protect the innocent) and discuss the practical challenges that had to be dealt with in moving an organisation with a release stack of over 230+ products, plus a very long release cycle onto a DevOps journey.
This session will cover an overview of the organisational challenges that needed to be overcome, a practical overview of the “standard pack” that was developed to help convince individual product-owners to go the DevOps route and lastly, a brief technical overview of the standard DevOps framework that was developed to on-board/coordinate the CI/CD processes performed by 100s of individual products, each with their own unique implementation.
11:55 - 12:40 | SCM in a DevOps context
11:55 - 12:40 | SCM in a DevOps context
Unfortunately DevOps and traditional software configuration management (SCM) often seems to be a mismatch. Like children and parents apparently they don't understand each other. As "die-hard" SCM people we know that all types of projects need configuration management. So how can we make SCM and DevOps fall in love?
Projects are not alike and there is no "one size fits all" SCM that will work in all contexts and for all development methods. DevOps projects probably need SCM done in a different way and operationally by different (non-SCM) people – but how? We analysed the practices, activities, and goals of DevOps - and identified areas of DevOps where SCM can be helpful and supportive. We also analysed "the empire of SCM" and found SCM activities that should probably be carried out also in a DevOps context in order to make things work better and more smoothly.
After this presentation you will:
- implicitly know what has become old and outdated from your SCM toolbox
- explicitly know what new things you should add to your SCM toolbox
- have an idea of how you should cast "old principles" in a DevOps context
- know how to sell SCM to DevOps (if you are an SCM)
- know why you should buy SCM (if you are a DevOps)
Lunch
Lunch
13:25 - 14:10 | It's cloudy with sunny spells: the Met Office journey to the cloud
13:25 - 14:10 | It's cloudy with sunny spells: the Met Office journey to the cloud
Mark Norriss | Met Office
Mark Norriss | Met Office
Mark Norriss of the Met Office will talk about the trials and tribulations of migrating the Met Office Portal to the Cloud. In his presentation, Mark will introduce the Met Office and explain what they do as an organisation.
Mark will introduce the Cloud Adoption programme, share what the Met Office's starting point, what they have been doing, the current position is and what we are going to be doing to help accelerate that journey.
14:10 - 14:55 | Cloud-based CM repositories
14:10 - 14:55 | Cloud-based CM repositories
This presentation reviews trends and advantages from migrating large software configuration management repositories into the cloud, and the benefits of doing so. It covers case studies and trends, showing examples of cloud only as well as hybrid models for repositories of many TB and being accessed by hundreds or thousands of users.
There will also be plenty of hints and tips for planning are also given to take advantage of cloud benefits while managing your costs effectively!
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