CTOs FOR GOOD 2013

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DevOps

• Matt Holford (@mshmsh5000)
• /thanks Desmond Morris (@desmondmorris)
• www.dosomething.org

• About Us
• Snapshot: A Year Ago
• The Way: Flow & Systems
• The Way: Feedback
• The Way: Resilience & Experimentation

About Us

• DoSomething.org: Largest network for young people & social change
• Members: 2.3 million (aged 13-25)
• Platform: Drupal & co. (RoR, Flask, et al.)
• A mostly LAMP-y stack

Do Something: A year ago

• Big old slow-ass Drupal site
• Frustration
• Technical debt
• Loose (missing?) process

Problem: Outsourced development

• Black-box products thrown “over the wall”
• Weak internal project management
• Less institutional knowledge → more technical debt

Problem: Loose dev & deploy workflow

Problem: Unhappy developers

• “90% of my time wrestling with the platform”
• Technical debt → Unhappiness
• No way to attract talent!
• No way to retain talent!

Problem: No automated tests

Problems we don't have

• High traffic
• Financial transactions
• COPPA or PCI compliance
• Massive infrastructure
• Complex deployments

DevOps?

(Easy: no ops!)

The 1st Way: Flow

The Goals: Bandwidth, understanding, control

The Enemy: Unplanned work

Flow: Process

• Get It In Writing (or Drawing)
• Trello
• Sprint Planning

Flow: Process

• Get It In Writing (or Drawing)
• Trello
• Sprint Planning

Missing from Trello

• Dashboard visualizations
• Time tracking
• Workflow rules/enforcement
• Ticket numbers

Flow: Process

• Get It In Writing (or Drawing)
• Trello
• Sprint Planning

Flow: Deploying to prod

Step 1: Talk to @george

Step 2: Jenkins in production

Step 3: Jenkins runs tests

Step 4: Fabric

The 2nd Way: Feedback

The Goals: Process improvement,short feedback loops

The Enemy: Silos of knowledge/information

Feedback: Culture

Continuous improvement

Working on work vs. doing more work

Feedback: Tools

• All the Shiny Tools
• GitHub
• HipChat
• Hubot
• Jenkins
• Wercker

Feedback: Tools

• All the Shiny Tools
• GitHub
• HipChat
• Hubot
• Jenkins
• Wercker

GitHub: Wishlist

Feature branch-based QA instances on RackSpace Private Cloud / OpenStack

Feedback: Tools

• All the Shiny Tools
• GitHub
• HipChat
• Hubot
• Jenkins
• Wercker

Feedback: Tools

• All the Shiny Tools
• GitHub
• HipChat
• Hubot
• Jenkins
• Wercker

Feedback: Tools

• All the Shiny Tools
• GitHub
• HipChat
• Hubot
• Jenkins
• Wercker

Feedback: Tools

• All the Shiny Tools
• GitHub
• HipChat
• Hubot
• Jenkins
• Wercker

Feedback: Testing

• LAMP: Behat
• Drupal: SimpleTest
• RoR: rspec, Cucumber

Feedback: Testing

• LAMP: Behat
• Drupal: SimpleTest
• RoR: rspec, Cucumber

Feedback: Testing

• LAMP: Behat
• Drupal: SimpleTest
• RoR: rspec, Cucumber

The 3rd Way: Resilience & Experimentation

...Ask me next year

The Phoenix Project

itrevolution.com/books/phoenix-project-devops-book/

Thanks!

• Matt Holford (@mshmsh5000)
• tinyurl.com/ctosdev2013