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Waiting for the CavalrySurviving the NoOps Purgatory

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About Me

IANA Ops Person

IAMA Developer (at Askuity Inc)

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About Askuity

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Learning Through PainAKA The Disclaimer

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Working with (Ops) ManiacsWhere This Comes From

@iamgavitron @wrathofchris

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Premise(s)

(scale && longevity) requires ops

young/small organizations rarely have ops

everybody loves consistency, reliability, and no overtime

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Cultureis an artifact of a social group

image CC via Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:All_Gizah_Pyramids.jpg

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Culture (for our purposes)

Communicate

Plan

Learn (as a team)

is how we together:

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What Is OpsPay no attention to the man behind the curtain

CC-BY-SA http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Abigor The Wizard Of Oz - William Wallace Denslow

CC-BY-2.5 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Zir

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Production vs CustomersA Venn Diagram

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Stewards of ProductionGet Medieval

CC-BY-SA Antony McCallum via http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bodiam-castle-10My8-1197.jpg

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What to Adopt?

Communication

Ownership

Preparedness

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CommunicationCC-BY-SA Hans Hillewaert via http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rosetta_Stone.JPG

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Customer Experience First

Adapted from http://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2006/11/working_backwards.html

Working Backwards

Pseudo Press Release

Product Documentation

Code

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Ownership

Accountability+

Authority

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PreparednessWhat are you not ready for?

The Battle of Zama - Henri-Paul Motte, 1890 - via Wikipedia

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Looking for your lifejacketin the high desert

- Chris Maxwell

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what-ever can happen will happen if we make trials enough.

Augustus De Morgan - via http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murphy%27s_law

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Techniques and ToolsHere be dragons

90%

10%

Tools Everything Else

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The Essentials

Telemetry

Continuous Integration/Delivery/Deployment

Automation

Communication Ownership Preparedness

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TelemetryLet your application talk back

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Continuous (pick a noun)Tests are not optional

http://www.zircotec.com/ Aaron Koblin-Flight Patterns, via http://www.aaronkoblin.com/work/flightpatterns/

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On Continuously Testing

Customers are your

default test suite.And the most expensive one.

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Automation(doesnt work like this)

CC-BY-SA Humanrobo, via Wikipedia

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Automation: ConfigurationPick one + source control

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Automation: PaaS/IaaSCC-BY-SA http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jakec

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Weve never had it this good.

Netflix Ice Netflix Security Monkey

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Professionalism

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Thanks To

@saemg@wrathofchris@tylerweir@omarkj

For feedback and opinions while working on this.