The road to DevOps : experience from the field

Abstract:

With the new "Apps economy", applications are now at the heart of the business opportunities related to digital. To meet the expectations of the market, these applications have to be developed and deployed always faster, and, in the same time, to support high availability and scalability requirements. In this context, setting up a DevOps approach is a real asset. The Cloud is another accelerator of this phenomenon, as the combined use of the Cloud and DevOps is therefore one of the keys to the successful implementation of a continuous delivery process. Automated provisioning and configuration of environments, tests or deployments, release management, are a few examples of DevOps processes to be implemented, but it's clearly not enough to deploy so-called tools DevOps to make DevOps real. DevOps is not a monolithic entity so there must be a reflection on the organization and the impact of the DevOps on departments, teams. Moreover, companies are not all equal before DevOps. When an IT practice has built its approach to operational management on a model not conducive to intra-services collaboration, there will be more difficulty to adopt a DevOps approach. The evolution must be progressive in setting priorities to target processes whose impact will be most visible. The approach must be pragmatic and controlled. This accompaniment to change is one of the more difficult step to carry out. Our objective with this session is to share our experiences at Alter Way and Microsoft, on how to implement DevOps in organizations, by defining DevOps assessment and roadmap considering a DevOps maturity model, evolving engineering organizations, enabling continuous and rapid flow of value by breaking down functional silos, facilitating continuous learning through data-driven design and the elimination of non-value adding activities, rationalization of resource use, and de-risking work.

Speaker:

Hervé Leclerc

I am currently CTO at Alter Way. I've been working in IT for more than 20 years. After as strong experience in both Dev and Ops world, I joined Alter Way in 2006. Alter Way is a fully Open Source service provider focused on 3 main business activities: hosting, development and training. All the elements are there and as a CTO, I am in charge of the implementation of all the necessary components for making Alter Way a real DevOps company. As an Expert, I also do some consultancy on DevOps at Alter Way’s customers.

Stéphane Goudeau

I am currently working as a Cloud Architect in Microsoft France. I've been working in IT for more than 20 years. I began my career as an engineer in BULL Integration Services. I joined Microsoft as a Consultant in 1996 and since then my position in Microsoft France organization has evolved through different technical roles. I've got a deep technical expertise on Microsoft platform technologies (but not only) and architect skills on several subjects: Application Lifecycle Management, DevOps, Cloud architecture design and application development, IT-as-a-Service private Cloud infrastructure deployment. I have also been the Technical Director of Microsoft Technical Center and have gained operation services knowledge through this experience.