DevOpsDays NZ 2019 – Day 1 – Session 3

Gleidson Nascimento – Packaging OpenShift Origin Kubernetes Distribution (OKD)

  • Centos SIG
  • Based on latest upstream

Joshua King – Don’t Reinvent the Wheel, Just Realign It

  • Project: Let notifications work for powershell users
  • Then he found the UWP community toolkit
  • Which had notifications built-in
  • These days looks around first, asks for APIs rather than scraping
  • Look around for open-source tools and give back
  • Sometimes your implimentation might be fun or even better than the original

Srdan Dukic – Implicit trust agreement in Learning Organizations

  • Sysadmin shell -> ansible -> APIs -> automate everything
  • Programmers coded themselves out of a job
  • Followup instructions or achieve results?
  • A bit of both – tension between the two
  • Money today or Money tomorrow?
  • Employee – Expected to make things better
  • Employer – Support things getting better, not fire people when they automate themselves out of a job

Julie Gunderson – You Can’t Buy DevOps

  • Lots of companies talking about DevOps are trying to sell you a solution
  • What doesn’t makes you a devops company
    • Be in the Cloud
    • Have a DevOps team
    • Get rid of the Ops Team
    • A checklist you can tick off
    • Easy
  • Westrum 3 Cultures Model
  • We want the generative model
  • Keeping information flowing between teams is prerequisite for high performance teams
  • Psychological Safety to make decisions. Lets employees focus on problems and getting work done rather than politics
  • Practices
    • Configuration management
    • CICD Pipelines
    • Work in small batches
    • Test every commit and everything else (look at Chaos engineering)
  • Tools
    • Let the teams who are using the tools decide on what tools they will use
    • XebiaLabs Periodic table of DevOps tools
  • Getting there
    • Start with one team and a POC
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