hi welcome this is Steve spike armored senior principal product manager at Red Hat and I'm
gonna talk to you today about scaling DevOps for hybrid cloud as we all know in business
some of the differentiation that's key is the ability for your company your team to deliver
innovation faster and that means all kinds of things for different businesses depends
on what you're in some is just a matter of having connected application so you can provide it more
intelligent solutions taking some data that you have either from you know gathering all
the different pieces customer insight and then building out some recommendations for those you
know these are product offerings or how people use your your products or your services and then
expanding on the global availability either you know taking the current global availability you
have and reaching new markets within that global reach or it's completely reaching out into areas
that you normally aren't into either no expanding on some traditional ways of your your business or
leveraging some pieces that you've you've found that your your core skill set is pretty good at
it adapting to and if you look at IT really the success depends on you ask but it depends
on your ability to deliver applications faster some of it is you know key on you know how can
you do that some of those are looking at some of the patterns and technology and application
approaches to say well if we build these things as micro services service applications we can
build up the cloud native applications and we can be a bit more agile with our application
infrastructure the other is building up on artificial intelligence and machine learning
solutions solutions like bought blockchain of having Internet of Things so being able to have
sensors and control devices and many places and just an overall innovation culture within IT and
we see some common and greedy on what brings that up but brings these things together it's rooted
at you know this ability in business demand how you deliver an IT DevOps and then pulling
together with micro services solutions a way to manage your containers leveraging kubernetes
so some of the civility can you know really need to make sure that it can succeed without
falling into the silo so what we often need to do is taking these approaches finding a way to
bring them together blend them together in a cohesive solution across your business near
IT organization um DevOps is over the years as King and everyone's got their own definition of
it let's be good just to kind of pause and say what we're talking about here I mean at the root
of it it's really just a bit of a culture and a process so it's a bit more about the people
but the reality of many people and there are things that scale tools help with those people
deliver that process and the given culture and so we'll talk about some of the tooling but tooling
is important and that helps with some of the key things and DevOps which around increasing
business value which really has focused on pieces such as automation which allows you
to rapidly innovate and deliver that innovation as needed so the culture itself is really about
collaboration across and that's how I got its name right from dev stops coming together instead of
throwing things over the wall but really that collaboration on the end goal and not worried
about the silos are there and breaking down the barriers to deliver on that innovation and some
of that is required is that automation is and taking those processes and see how much you
can automate so that you can focus on delivering that value as opposed to the process itself and
then how you can leverage technology either in your application stack to deliver that or
even in the delivery of your application so we'll talk a bit about some of those
in the short of it you know DevOps is really about getting things out the door to end-users
quickly and reliably so just have a very automated rock-solid process on how you can deliver that
innovation and those changes so let's talk a bit about DevOps about a culture and cultures about
people and you see certain characteristics of DevOps culture key part of is open communication
and we hear this often from our consulting teams as often when they come in and help either through
our labs engagements open innovation labs or individual consultants you hear a lot working
with customers one of those key things is just bringing people together is a huge value there
and then part of that is the open communication not looking to point fingers fingers but trying
to understand where things need to be fixed and how to fix them obviously the key is respect
understanding everyone's trying to to achieve the same goal and you have trust in each other
they'll do their job and we're shooting for that similar end state and making sure there's a right
incentive and then assignment responsibility to get there and then really embrace not
encourage but embrace failure through you know experimentation to make sure what what things
may work or not work but it's important to know to learn from those failures on how to grow your
team and they overall culture and then a little bit of patience I know we're talking about rapid
innovation but sometimes it takes the culture some time to you know not overnight going to be fixed
and and say we're going to do things this new way it takes six waves of learning and getting
through some of that building up that trust that respect finding the right communication channels
and then learning as you go and that's just the point of like the whole point is everyone
is trying to kind of deliver to a certain end state and so everyone has their valuable
input and really communicate so that if all the things out on the table working through a common
not saying that everything that is centered around a developer and the developer can control what the
feature said is when it gets delivered those those type of things but the reality is if
it it was not really hitting the rate business goals there's if it's not you know accessible
and clear documentation on how to use it in the end it's not going to be a successful solution