Introduction: DevOps – More than just Dev and Ops

1. High-Performance IT Organizations
2. Core Chronic Conflict

• Silos of job function vs. alignment of mission
• Waste, batching and flow

3. Where DevOps Came From

• The Lean Movement
• Toyota, total quality, & Deming
• The Agile Movement
• The Continuous Delivery Movement
• Exercise: IT Lifecycles – Points of Pain

Maturing a DevOps Practice in the Enterprise

1. The Cultural Component

• Culture vs. individual work
• How to present the business case to leadership
• How to keep leadership involved
• How to dissolve operational silos over time

2. Patterns You Can Follow

• Lean start-up teams
• Collaboration tools
• Automate everything you can
• Key tooling and automation groups
• Reserve time for improvement

3. Eliminating Waste

• Detecting uneven demand
• Resolving overburdened teams
• Applying waste principles and management to IT

4. The Involvement Principles

• Information security principles

5. Security

• Security management and process
• Integrating security priorities with the rest of IT
• Transforming security from a cost centre to an equity builder
• Resolving stakeholder conflicts
• Exercise: The Involvement Process

6. Automation

• Benefits of automation: What to expect
• Disruptions of automation
• How to prevent new bottlenecks
• Automating deployments
• Levelling workflow around automation tools
• Where should you automate?
• Exercise: Choosing a Value Stream

7. Selecting the Value Stream to Start With
8. Value Stream Mapping

• Exercise: Value Stream Mapping

9. Plan the Transformation
10. Product and Organization Architecture

Your DevOps Journey: Optimize Flow

1. Principles of Flow

• Tracking flow in the enterprise environment

2. Infrastructure as Code

• Infrastructure configuration management
• Configuration management tools examples: Chef, Puppet, Ansible, Salt
• Models with proven enterprise track records
• Where to target value with IaaS

3. Deployment Pipeline

• Moving towards continuous deployments
• Deployment tools examples: Jenkins and Maven
• Iteration and frequency
• Changing handoff procedure
• Shared version control
• Version control tools examples: Git and Github

4. Automated Testing

• Testing tools examples: Selenium, Cucumber, and TDD toolsets
• Code quality and security scanning

5. Continuous Integration
6. Containerization

• Containerization tools examples: Docker and Kubernetes

7. Architecture for Reduced Risk Deployments and IT Ops

• Microservices
• The strangler patterns
• Blue-green deployment pattern
• Virtualization and the cloud

Your DevOps Journey: Continual Learning and

Experimentation

1. Principles of Continuous Learning

• Knowledge management tools
• More principles

2. Learning Culture

• Westrum’s organizational typologies
• Blameless post-mortems

Exam Preparation/Mock Exam

Examination