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Implementing Modern DevOps
Implementing Modern DevOps

Implementing Modern DevOps: Enabling IT organizations to deliver faster and smarter

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Implementing Modern DevOps

DevOps in the Real World

In the past few years, the software world has evolved at a very high pace. One of my favorite examples of evolution is FinTech, a new field whose name comes from the fusion of finance and technology. In this field, companies tend to build financial products in a disruptive way up to a point that they are threatening the big traditional banks and putting them in jeopardy.

This happens mainly due to the fact that big companies lose the ability to be cost-effective in their IT systems and banks are fairly big companies. It is not strange that banks still run their systems in an IBM mainframe and are reluctant to move to the cloud, and it is also not strange that the core components of the banks are still COBOL applications that haven't been renewed since the 90s. This wouldn't be bad if it wasn't because a small number of talented engineers with an AWS or Google Cloud Platform account can actually build a service that could virtually replace some bank products such as currency exchange or even a broker.

This has become a norm in the last few years, and one of the keys for the success of small companies in FinTech is partially due to DevOps and partially due to its scale. Usually, big companies commoditize the IT systems over time, outsourcing them to third parties that work on price, pushing the quality aside. This is a very effective cost-cutting measure, but it has a downside: you lose the ability to deliver value quickly.

In this chapter, we are going to put DevOps into perspective and see how it can help us create cost-effective work units that can deliver a lot of value in a very short period of time.

What is DevOps?

There is a famous quote by Henry Ford, the creator of Ford (the popular car-maker brand):

“If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.”

This is what happened with the traditional system administrator role: people were trying to solve the wrong problem.

By the wrong problem, I mean the lack of proper tools to automate the intervention in production systems, avoiding the human error (which is more common than you may think) and leading to a lack of communication continuity in the processes of your company.

Initially, DevOps was the intersection of development and operations as well as QA. The DevOps engineer is supposed to do everything and be totally involved in the SDLC (software development life cycle), solving the communication problems that are present in the traditional release management. This is ideal and, in my opinion, is what a full stack engineer should do: end-to-end software development, from requirement capture to deployments and maintenance.

Nowadays, this definition has been bent up to a point where a DevOps engineer is basically a systems engineer using a set of tools to automate the infrastructure of any company. There is nothing wrong with this definition of DevOps, but keep in mind that we are losing a very competitive advantage: the end-to-end view of the system. In general, I would not call this actor a DevOps engineer but an Site reliability engineering (SRE). This was a term introduced by Google few years back, as sometimes (prominently in big companies), is not possible to provide a single engineer with the level of access required to execute DevOps. We will talk more about this role in the next section, SRE model.

In my opinion, DevOps is a philosophy more than a set of tools or a procedure: having your engineers exposed to the full life cycle of your product requires a lot of discipline but gives you an enormous amount of control over what is being built. If the engineers understand the problem, they will solve it; it is what they are good at.

DevOps origins

In the last few years, we have gone through a revolution in IT: it sparkled from pure IT companies to all the sectors: retail, banking, finance, and so on. This has led to a number of small companies called start-ups, which are basically a number of individuals who had an idea, executed it, and went to the market in order to sell the product or the service to a global market (usually). Companies such as Amazon or Alibaba, not to mention Google, Apple, Stripe or even Spotify, have gone from the garage of one of the owners to big companies employing thousands of people.

One thing in common in the initial spark with these companies has always been corporate inefficiency: the bigger the company, the longer it takes to complete simple tasks.

Example of corporate inefficiency graph

This phenomenon creates a market on its own, with a demand that cannot be satisfied with traditional products. In order to provide a more agile service, these start-ups need to be cost-effective. It is okay for a big bank to spend millions on its currency exchange platform, but if you are a small company making your way through, your only possibility against a big bank is to cut costs by automation and better processes. This is a big drive for small companies to adopt better ways of doing things, as every day that passes is one day closer to running out of cash, but there is a bigger drive for adopting DevOps tools: failure.

Failure is a natural factor for the development of any system. No matter how much effort we put in, failure is always there, and at some point, it is going to happen.

Usually, companies are quite focused on removing failure, but there is a unwritten rule that is keeping them from succeeding: the 80-20 rule:

  • It takes 20% of time to achieve 80% of your goals. The remaining 20% will take 80% of your time.

Spending a huge amount of time on avoiding failure is bound to fail, but luckily, there is another solution: quick recovery.

Up until now, in my work experience, I have only seen one company asking "what can we do if this fails at 4 A.M. in the morning?" instead of "what else can we do to avoid this system from failing?", and believe me, it is a lot easier (especially with the modern tools) to create a recovery system than to make sure that our systems won't go down.

All these events (automation and failure management) led to the development of modern automation tools that enabled our engineers to:

  • Automate infrastructure and software
  • Recover from errors quickly

DevOps and corporations

DevOps fits perfectly into the small company world (start-ups): some individuals that can access everything and execute the commands that they need to make the changes in the system quickly. Within these ecosystems is where DevOps shines.

This level of access in traditional development models in big companies is a no-go. It can be an impediment even at a legal level if your system is dealing with highly confidential data, where you need to get your employees security clearance from the government in order to grant them access to the data.

It can also be convenient for the company to keep a traditional development team that delivers products to a group of engineers that runs it but works closely with the developers so that the communication is not an issue.

SREs also use DevOps tools, but usually, they focus more on building and running a middleware cluster (Kubernetes, Docker Swarm, and so on) that provides uniformity and a common language for the developers to be abstracted from the infrastructure: they don't even need to know in which hardware the cluster is deployed; they just need to create the descriptors for the applications that they will deploy (the developers) in the cluster in an access-controlled and automated manner in a way that the security policies are followed up.

SRE is a discipline on its own, and Google has published a free ebook about it, which can be found at https://landing.google.com/sre/book.html.

I would recommend that you read it as it is a fairly interesting point of view.

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  • ? Helps you skill up your DevOps knowledge without a strong set of prerequisites
  • ? Deliver continuously improved software by showcasing the most advanced tools and techniques
  • ? Acquire a deeper insight into implementing DevOps in your organization and deliver results from day 1

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This book follows a unique approach to modern DevOps using cutting-edge tools and technologies such as Ansible, Kubernetes, and Google Cloud Platform. This book starts by explaining the organizational alignment that has to happen in every company that wants to implement DevOps in order to be effective, and the use of cloud datacenters in combination with the most advanced DevOps tools to get the best out of a small team of skilled engineers. It also delves into how to use Kubernetes to run your applications in Google Cloud Platform, minimizing the friction and hassle of maintaining a cluster but ensuring its high availability. By the end of this book, you will be able to realign teams in your company and create a Continuous Delivery pipeline with Kubernetes and Docker. With strong monitoring in place, you will also be able to react to adverse events in your system, minimizing downtime and improving the overall up-time and stability of your system.

Who is this book for?

This book is written for engineers and companies that want to learn the minimum set of required technologies and processes to be successful in the DevOps world. This book also targets system administrators, developers, and IT professionals who would like to employ DevOps techniques and best practices to manage IT infrastructures or would like to acquire the necessary skills needed to work in DevOps teams.

What you will learn

  • ? Master development best practices.
  • ? Understand how the Agile Delivery Methodology helps you ensure accuracy and quality.
  • ? Analyze branching strategies such as branch creation, merging, and synchronization.
  • ? Learn to automate builds to deploy and deliver code faster and more often
  • ? Explore testing frameworks and how to automate testing
  • ? Learn to put specific metrics in place to measure ROI of DevOps and monitor logs and events in a system

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