Devops in a brownfields environment

by: Douglas Land

brownfields...

How about greyfields? You know, like greywater.

Common brownfields attributes

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Define what devops means to you3 ways? 5 whys? 12 factors? 31 flavors?You can’t evangelize what you can’t define.

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Keep CALMS and carry on

Start by focusing on one or two: Culture, Automation, Lean, Measurement, Sharing.

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Get everyone on your team on board

Talk to people’s pain points. Discuss real problems and how devops approaches could help solve them.

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Get everyone on your team on board

Build ways to offload work into your plans to make time for new projects.

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Define your objectives… and how you measure (M in CALMS) progress(Pro tip: use Maturity models)

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Define objectives ~your~ team can meet

Start with small, internal projects to generate momentum as well as enthusiasm.

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Minimal viable ducksIterate, break things into small doable pieces, don’t get intimidated by scope, reduce it

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Don’t be the tool

Once automation is in place it’s much easier to change your toolkits.

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Help others help you

Publish things like best practices and processes to help others understand what you need or expect from them and why.

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Get out of your own way

Do you add value to this process? If not, replace yourself with a small shell script.

The Customer is always right

Listen. Don’t be defensive. Do be open minded.

Get other teams on board

Now that you have a map to your shiny unicorn palace, start looking for advocates on other teams.

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Create feedback loops

Don’t ever stop talking, meeting, measuring, reviewing and evaluating.

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You’re going to screw up

… and that’s OK!

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Do SOMETHING

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Thanks!

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