I'm mostly a developer but with also a system administration background

I was on lease to the infra team (devops) when the DevOpsDays were happening here in London - I'm such a lucky guy!

So I went there and took ~20 pages of notes (I write in large and leave a lot of white lines)

The following is a raw, unfiltered, report of what happened to me at DevOpsDays London. As a transcript of my notes.

@KrisBuytaert "The people in this room are the 1% , we live in a paralellel fantasy world of how things should be . @realgenekim #devopsdays"

Signed copy of "The Phoenix Project" thanks to bmcsoftware http://www.bmc.com/

• http://vimeo.com/album/2312414

http://vimeo.com/62491557

https://speakerdeck.com/niekbartho/devops-for-dinosaurs

• Business asks Dev to be fast in producing the software and asks Ops to be reliable in running that same software. Software delivery does not work.
• "Buy before build" rule leads to very Heterogeneous environments and focus on Integration
• Modern companies are build with automation in mind. It's in their DNA
• Change Management in Traditional Company. CMMI

They want metrics for the company culture to see if DevOps is working

• Organizational Health Index - Expansive
• Agile & Scrum check-lists
• Beliefs -> Attitude & Values -> Behaviour
• Behaviours are measurable (even if they are just a consequence)
• Make life less miserable (objective of DevOps)
• KPI: Dev Cycle Time (Story to Production)
• Shared purpose
• Motivation
• Collaboration
• Effectiveness
• How to collect the data?
  • Interview
  • Questionnaire (they have chosen this)
  • Raw Data
  • Spying
• Data > Opinions
• Opinions matched Data

How to apply DevOps even if you are a start-up, without huge cash and not based in Frisco

http://blog.serverdensity.com/growing-an-ops-team-from-1-founder/

• Server Density, we make a dashboard for MongoDB
• Instead of documentation: Failure scenario. Write washing machine style issue resolution guide for your systems
• Every manual process should have a check-list
• Uptime reporting
• Detailed external (and internal) communication in case of outages. Think Heroku status pages
• Simulated outages
• HipChat
• serverdensity.com/dd
• Migrated from Bamboo to Travis to avoid wasting time managing internal services

• Ads have been commoditizated (both Google and Social)
• The differentiator can be the UX on your site
• Tech metrics alongside Business metrics
• Graph of Lost Sale: Graph of sale of typical week * outages
• Drives priorities for fixing

http://vimeo.com/62330884

• The company is called payback and they have a marketing made video of what the company does. Cool! We could make one for our company too!
• ICINGA
• Mesh by common goals
• Common language
• QDOS = QA Dev Ops

http://vimeo.com/62330508

https://speakerdeck.com/sameaton/devops-in-the-hell-of-a-thousand-different-platforms

• Failcake. Failcake is a brilliant idea! blame free post mortem.
• Failcake extended itself to non tech people. This thing is powerful!
• Using the message queue as the integration point promotes transparency
• DevOps is more like Anarcho-syndicalism than Communism. (Worker self-management, Direct action, Worker solidarity)
• Deliver first. Evangelize later
• ops.failcake.net

http://vimeo.com/62491066

http://www.slideshare.net/realgenekim/how-can-we-better-sell-devops

• DevOps helps the Business
• We know how to fix it not how to make another (system/server)
• Failure & Powerless
• Stories
• Burnout in IT is worse than first response and military (Can't find the source. http://www.secburnout.org/ maybe?)
• You are bringing the stress home
• Cost of IT failure: 3T$/year
• The Goal -> The Phoenix Project
• Storytelling
• DevOps Cookbook
• Slide of the downward spiral & find your business problem

http://vimeo.com/62491065

http://www.slideshare.net/SimonVansColina/simonvc-bashonosqlinacontinuousdeliveryworld

• +1!

http://vimeo.com/62491069

http://www.slideshare.net/simonmccartney/stack-kicker-devopsdayslondon2013

• "Tools I wish I had found first" slide should be mandatory on tools talks!
• +1!

http://vimeo.com/62491068

• mock the internet
• Goooooood idea!

http://vimeo.com/62491067

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIu15zIsjQg

http://www.slideshare.net/jedi4ever/what-ifconfigmgtwasdesignedbygamers

• Brilliant!

• OpenStack has won the race for standard
• Pulp for configuration management
• ZooKepper for dynamic configurations + source for static info
• GridMaster

• Have a product owner responsible from features to running to end life
• Put monetary value on downtime
• Leak pipe -> lost costumer at the stacktrace
• mesure happyness by drawing harirs on sad, happy and meh faces (simpler alternative to niko niko)

• we all use graphite
• Descartes
• Gdash is missing tests
• Graphite is moving toward decopuling the frontned from the backend
• Kibana3 has awesome dashboards & demos demo.kibana.org
• AppDynamic DynaTrace
• Metric Sampler - JMX

We are doing an awesome job: Talking about comunity and everyone is looking at his phone -- @thesamoth

• Tools
  • IRC
    • Freenode
      • ##infra-talk
    • IRC Cloud https://www.irccloud.com/
  • Twitter
    • Twit about the tech you use
  • LdnDevOps Google Group https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!forum/london-devops
    • we meet in the Forward offices http://forwardtechnology.co.uk/events
• People
  • Mary Rotman/Thengvall Community Manager @ O'Reilly https://twitter.com/mary_grace
• Sites
  • DevOps December Sysadmin Guest Posts https://puppetlabs.com/blog/looking-back-at-devops-december/
  • DevOps Reactions http://devopsreactions.tumblr.com/
  • cfengine author's papers http://cfengine.com/markburgess/index.html
  • Planet DevOps http://www.planetdevops.net/
  • DevOps Angle http://www.devopsangle.com/
  • Open Tech Calendar http://opentechcalendar.co.uk
• Podcasts
  • Floss Weekly http://twit.tv/show/floss-weekly
  • DevOps Cafe http://devopscafe.org/
  • Food Fight Show http://foodfightshow.org/
  • The Ship Show http://theshipshow.com/
• Books
  • Lean Principles - not sure
  • DevOps for Developers https://www.google.co.uk/shopping/product/1712181197592230257
  • Getting real https://www.google.co.uk/shopping/product/9515751910094167853
  • Rework https://www.google.co.uk/shopping/product/2753713951273839343
• Conferences/Events
  • Find conferences with Lanyrd http://lanyrd.com/
  • QCon http://qconlondon.com/
  • MonkiGras http://monkigras.com/
  • LunchOps https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topicsearchin/london-devops/subject:LunchOps
  • BarCamp London http://barcamplondon.org/
  • ScaleCamp http://www.scalecamp.org.uk/
  • WebPerformance Meetup http://www.meetup.com/London-Web-Performance-Group/
  • Monitorama http://monitorama.com/
  • Fosdem https://fosdem.org/
• Other
  • Lean IT http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lean_IT

• TIMGroup is the most numerous company
• War Stories

See you at the next event, on IRC and Twitter

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