Big Honking DevOps Page of Love: DevOps Notes and Resources

DevOps Resources

  • DevOpsDays: Conferences arguably were the structures that germanated the movement's accelerated adoption and cloud. The conferences help ignite the DevOps cultural movement/moment.

Background

  • Germinated as conversations around Agile System Admin practices: @littleidea, @patrickdebois
  • MeetUp organized by Patrick Debois in Ghent, Belgium October 2009 Decade Anniversary

Meta Resources: Talks and Presentations

CA(L)MS

  • CAMS: Culture, Automation, Measurement, Sharing _ attribution John Willis/Damon Edwards on DevOps Cafe podcast The L for CA(L)Ms came after the suggestion of Lean by Jez Humble (author of Lean Enterprise/DevOps Handbook) and Daemon Edwards (RunDeck).

  • Culture: Part1 Part 2

  • Automation
  • Measurement

  • Sharing

  • Netflix Culture Deck and Patty McCord TED TALK

The Three Ways of DevOps

  • Gene Kim's explaination
  • First Way (Flow): Work always flows in one direction – downstream Dev Ops ala ‘wall of confusion’ Shafer/Thompson
  • Second Way (Feedback): Create, shorten and amplify feedback loops (right to left).

  • Third Way (Continuous experimentation): Creating a culture that fosters two things: continual experimentation, taking risks and learning from failure; and understanding that repetition and practice is the prerequisite to mastery.

  • How do these apply to every project/product worked on?

  • IT Revolution, as a resource, is just like O'Reilly was for me learning in the early pre-DevOps days. O'Reilly was a go-to then (and now), similarly ITRev offers the texts that will solidify understanding of the challenges beyond technical implementation. The DOES/Enterprise Technology Summits provide that same social ecosystem for ideas/ideals to grow and collective ideology around technology. Without these supporting structures/systems would the hegemony of DevOps as an idea de as complete?

SRE

  • What is the role of Site Reliability Engineer? SRE Book and SRE Workbook. How SRE relates to DevOps. In short, SRE is the Google specific implementatioon of DevOps concepts and practices with their specific purpose built toolchains. There's so much in this area to cover but sufficxe it to say, Google created SRE and any implementation of it will never have the challanges or constraints at their scale.

Configuration Management

  • Mark Burgess CFEngine, Promise Theory and how the field of physics informs IT. Burgess pretty much invented modern config management space. By extension heavily influenced Adam Jacob @OPsCode/Chef The first time I heard Adam Jacob speak at Velocity 2011, I was struck by how open and generative giving attribution to a hero and influence can be. Mark Burgess, though perhaps less known has had a great influence on the area.

Config Management Prime-Movers

  • Luke Kaines (Puppet)
  • Adam Jacob (Chef)
  • Michael DeHann (Ansible)
  • Mitchell Hashimoto and Armon Dadgar (Terraform)
  • Jeff Snover (PowerShell)

Kim and ITRevolution

  • Gene Kim (Visible Ops, ITRevolution, DOES) @realgenekim When IT Fails

Adrian Cockroft

Podcasts:

  • Cloud Cafe
  • DevOps Cafe
  • Arrested Devops
  • The Ship Show
  • Software Defined Talk

DORA, Dr. Foresgren, Jez Humble and Accelerate

  • DORA](https://www.devops-research.com/research.html) DevOps Data and Metrics singularity Dr. Nicole Forsgren @nicolefv
  • Accelerate
  • Jez Humble Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (also DORA and Accelerate) Humble/Farley

_Extremely influencial as a measurement. Currently a measure for an orgs capabilities. There are now 5 current metrics.

The Five Key DORA Metrics

  • Deployment Frequency (the frequency at which new releases go to production)
  • Lead Time For Changes (the time until a commit goes to production)
  • Mean Time to Restore (the time it takes to resolve a service impairment in production)
  • Change Failure Rate (the ratio of deployments to production that leads to errors and successful deployments).
  • Operational Excellence / Resilience (added 2019)

State of DevOps Report

DevSecOps

In the so-called 'DevOps transformation', InfoSec wasn't invited to the party. DevSecOps seeks to fix that and shift security left and embrace more modern patterns of GRC (governance, risk and complience).

Strategy and Wardley

  • Simon Wardley: Wardley Mapping Wardley pioneered the use of mapping as a strategic tool. It can be used for personal goals and strategy and organizational transformation. It's like he can tell the future and often does. Worth a follow @swardley and Medium

Policy as Code

Emergent with automation and builds pipelines is the notion of declaritive code that enforces policies. While not new these methods of

  • Twitter handles for some cool folks in DevOps and SRE here

Dr Edwards Deming

Toyota Production System

  • Toyota Production System, Taiichi Ohno, Lean Manufacturing

Goldratt

  • Goldratt the Theory of Constraints (TOC). Also see The Goal and The Phoenix Project (Gene Kim)

The Five Ideals

  • Gene Kim's explaination
  • Locality and Simplicity (Sprouter @ Etsy) Synchronize and coordonate team's work. The primacy of Architecture on productivity.
  • Focus Flow and Joy
  • Improvement of Daily Work
  • Psycological Safety
  • Customer Focus

Seminal Videos

These are just some of the videos I can recall creating an aha moment. There are many more in DevOps Enterprise Summit and YouTube.

Ben Rockwood: 10 Deploys a Day

This was one of the earliest videos I can remember about transformation as intention and practice The DevOps Transformation

10 Deploys A Day

Andrew Clay Shafer

Alice GoldFuss

MN DoD 2019 The Containeir Operator Manual

Kelly Shortridge and Dr. Nicole Forsgren Controlled Chaos: The Inevitable Marriage of DevOps & Security

Seminal Texts

The Lean Startup Steven Blank's book The Four Steps to Ephiphany heavily influenced Eric Reis as a student at Stanford.

Currated Playlists from O’Reilly

Cloud Architecture: DevOps Primer:

Learning as Practice:

Unlearn*:

Manager’s Path and Leadership

Manager's Path Fournier’s book is in Audio format