Five hops to DevOps – Changing the culture around software deployment in the public sector

FIVE HOPS TO DEVOPS CHANGING THE CULTURE AROUND SOFTWARE DEPLOYMENT IN THE PUBLIC SECTOR ANDREW BEAN

Software at BGS • Heterogeneous • Developers and Scientists • Varied outputs / requirements • Isolated, monolithic, infrequently deployed

Enter DevOps? CI / CD Infrastructure as code Monitoring & Logging Microservices “What is DevOps?” – Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Enter DevOps? CI / CD Infrastructure as code Monitoring & Logging Microservices “What is DevOps?” – Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Enter DevOps? CI / CD Infrastructure as code Monitoring & Logging Microservices “What is DevOps?” – Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Enter DevOps? CI / CD Infrastructure as code Monitoring & Logging Microservices “What is DevOps?” – Amazon Web Services (AWS)

‘HOP’ #1 IT’S NOT ALL OR NOTHING

One step at a time… • Siearra Leone • SVN / Gitlab CI / Cut/Paste  

One step at a time…  

‘HOP’ #2 MAKE IT SIMPLE, SELL IT WELL

Management Developers Operations

YAML – Yes, Another Mess to Learn! • Hop #1 Content 2

‘HOP’ #3 ONE SIZE DOES NOT FIT ALL

PEOPLE CULTURE TOOLS TECH STACK

‘HOP’ #4 IT’S NOT ONE PERSON’S ROLE

Don’t be “the” DevOps person Have champions Encourage responsibility in all team members Consider DevOps at project planning / scoping © xkcd.com

‘HOP’ #5 IT MEANS DIFFERENT THINGS TO DIFFERNET PEOPLE (AND THAT’S OK)

Is it worth it? © xkcd.com

Andrew Bean andan@bgs.ac.uk http://www.bgs.ac.uk Title Slide Image: © Tobia Begemann (https://www.flickr.com/photos/tobiasbegemann/40502441271) Icons (from https://thenounproject.com): “Computer” ©Bakunetsu Kaito, “User” ©Wilson Joseph, “Email” ©ProSymbols, “Browser” ©lastspark, “Server” ©Yazmin Alanis, “Web Browser cloud” ©alvianwijaya, “Rock Pick” ©Artemizia Senza Nove, “Deployment Pipeline” ©Richard Slater, “coding” ©Jugalbandi All Other Imagery: British Geological Survey © NERC