John Furrier64
Question: What are some of the barriers to accelerating the pace of quality software into production and deployment?
Steve Brodie
Many organizations have bottlenecks due lack of automation or silos of automation
Steve Brodie
In many of the organizations we visit, common bottlenecks include long build times, manual testing, and slow deployment and provisioning
CrowdFather
What about roles of different clouds? I like AWS for something not for others? How do I work across the cloud providers?
Wesley Pullen
@stbrodie I completely agree here.
Steve Brodie
As Gene notes, the solution is multi-dimensional. A successful CD/DevOps transformation requires evolution in culture, process and technology
Steve Brodie
@Crowdfather DevOps is fundamentally cloud agnostic IMO
Evan Powell
We see a lack of trust and transparency in cross silo automation - if any exists. Agree w/ @stbrodie
Steve Brodie
@Crowdfather We see organizations implementing CD on top of private cloud baed on VMWare, OpenStack and others
John Furrier
@stbrodie Can you explain the silo piece in detail
Steve Brodie
@Crowdfather We also see organizations doing DevOps on a variety of public clouds
Evan Powell
@stbrodie at the risk of the worst acronym in DevOps, do we need Automation As A Service? We've seen it just a few places, not broadly done (yet).
Steve Brodie
@epowell101 Evan, you are correct, the trust issues are some of the biggest challenges
Steve Brodie
@epowell101 I believe the reality is that organizations with strong silos and trust issues probably struggle to achieve faster cycle times, higher quality, greater responsiveness and better uptime
Gene Kim
PS: Here's the PPT that @jezhumble, @nicolefv, @nigelkersten gave 2 wks ago: http://www.slideshar...
2014 State Of DevOps Findings! Velocity Conference
Presentation by Nicole Forsgren Velasquez | Jez Humble | Nigel Kersten | Gene Kim
Presentation by Nicole Forsgren Velasquez | Jez Humble | Nigel Kersten | Gene Kim
Steve Brodie
@epowell101 We probably have more than enough acronyms in our industry before we introduce AaaS :-)
Evan Powell
@stbrodie Regarding lack of trust in automation, we see a N^2 integration challenge too. Many to many tied together w/ scripts typically or "real code" at places like AWS.
Steve Brodie
@stbrodie @epowell101 That said, many of our largest customer have setup centralized, shared continuous delivery services on an internal private cloud
Steve Brodie
@epowell101 Regarding the N^2 integration challenge, definitely a challenge with point to point integrations or linkages
Steve Brodie
@epowell101 Some of the most successful organizations we see employ and E2E orchestration solution to automation the software delivery pipeline from developer check-in to production release and feedback loops from produyction monitoring