Continuous Integration Is for Everyone—Especially DevOps

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“Continuous Integration Is for Everyone—Especially DevOps”

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Chris Riley

Sauce Labs

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Chris Riley Sauce Labs

A well-known DevOps expert, Chris Riley has spent twelve years helping organizations transition from traditional development practices to a more modern set of culture, processes, and tooling to increase software release frequency and quality. Founder and DevOps analyst at Fixate IO, he was most recently a GigaOM research analyst. He is a frequent O’Reilly author, regular speaker at various industry conferences worldwide, and subject matter expert in DevOps strategy and culture. Throughout Chris’ career he has combined the roles of marketing, product management, and engineering to gain a unique perspective of how to solve real-world problems with technology. Follow Chris on Twitter @HoardingInfo.

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Continuous Integration is for Everyone

Presented by Chris Riley ( @HoardingInfo ), DevOps Analyst!

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Presenter!

Chris Riley (@HoardingInfo) – Bad Coder turned DevOps Analyst - O’Reilly author and regular contributor to DevOps.com, ContainerJournal.com, TechTarget & More !


People, then Process, then Tools!

Continuous Integration is the path to DevOps success.!


DevOps !=!

Jenkins!

Continuous Delivery/Deployment!

Continuous Integration !

Docker!

Microservices! Culture !

Cloud!Etc. etc. !


Two 11 Flavors of DevOps!1.) The movement!!2.) The practice!


The Practice!

IS!•  Owned by IT!•  The tactics of infrastructure automation!•  An evolution of ITSM/ITIL!

IS NOT!•  Does not often cover culture!!


The movement!

•  People, then Process, then Tools !•  Holistic POV, no one owns it !•  Facilitators and Executors!•  It is a journey not an end or a thing !


Continuous Delivery / Deployment is stealing the show. But not required to be a modern development shop.!

Most cannot just jump in!

A.  You are not Etsy, Google, Netflix etc. !!B.  Your application does not have high enough transaction volume, and/or !!C.  Your application is not geographically diverse !!D.  CD might not even benefit you !



Faster and more frequent releases at a higher quality.!

The Bottom Line!


Quality Is Often Neglected!

•  Little budget!•  Functional test grids are hard to maintain !•  Testing is an afterthought!•  QA/QE has not been a first class citizen !•  Quality is seen as a maintenance activity !



To take the next step in quality you need: !!

1.  More frequent test runs !2.  Earlier testing!3.  Automated tests !4.  Flexible testing environments!!i.e Continuous Integration !


Most Everyone Can Embrace CI!A.  Introduce DevOps without getting fired !!B.  Start DevOps off on right foot in a safe way !!C.  See immediate benefits!!D.  Build up internal skills and buy in!

E.  Support increased quality!


Continuous Integration Environments!!

The Code Café !


Why CI!

•  Iterate Quickly!•  Iterate Safely!•  Move Quality Earlier in Pipeline!•  Improve Communication!•  Automate sooner with Less Risk !•  Get to new functionality sooner !•  Exploratory Testing!•  Better test strategy !

Fail Fast/Forward!



Building CI!

•  CI Environments (1+)!•  Requires throw away environments!•  Requires test automation!•  Requires frequent releases!

•  i.e GitHub web hooks !•  Requires collaboration ( QA, IT and Dev )!•  Requires metrics!•  Integrations!


How to start!

• Bottom Up – Do Something !• Team Up!• Leverage Cloud tools for Quick Wins!• Delivery Metrics!


Think Big!

• Deploy upon every pull request!• Build mock environments!• Turn focus to Strategy !



Continuous integration!•  Slip streams into existing environments !

•  Easiest way to onboard DevOps processes !

•  Safest way to grow into CD!


Q&[email protected] !

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