OpsCamps in Austin, Boston & SF were a lot of fun. Now we're running DevOps Workshops too. Join us. The first 40 to register are free!

Location: Venue provide by USENIX Federated Event Week
Marriott Downtown Waterfront
1401 SW Naito Parkway - Mt. Hood Room
Portland, OR 97201

Schedule (Monday, June 13, 2011)
1:00pm Registration & Networking
1:30am Session 1
2:15pm Session 2
3:00pm Session 3
3:45pm Break
4:15pm Session 4
5:30pm Wrap-up DevOps Workshop
6:00pm DevOpsNite Lightning Talks

Workshop Facilitator:
- John Willis

This is the 2nd time we will be running this event. Please come and help us get it started. Listed below are the base objectives for the workshop.

DevOps Workshop

The business value of DevOps. This is the "why we are sitting here" part. The DevOps lifecycle is fundamentally about getting change (i.e. new ideas) from developer check-in to where it's running in a customer facing environment. This is also the key business process of the company/division/organization. Therefore DevOps problems are fundamentally breaking/slowing/constraining the business. Seeing this problem domain as one end-to-end business problem helps fight siloization. DevOps is a cultural and professional movement that was started about two years ago. The movement is primarily a reaction to many of the leading edge technology advances made in infrastructure over the past few years. This movement examines the cultural and behaviour patterns that appear in the process of driving agile development into “agile operations”. The Devops Workshop is a two-part event with the first part consisting mainly of lecture and theory. The second part will be delivered as a set of group-based labs called DevOps Modelling. With DevOps Modelling the workshop attendees will be divided into teams of 3-4. Each team will be responsible for a specific process of a DevOps Model based on lecture and theory. At the end of the second part each team will showcase their process to the rest of the attendees.

Introduction to DevOps

This section includes:

• A brief history of the DevOps professional and cultural movement.
• Describe how DevOps fits into a world where multiple provisioning models exist (bare-metal, virtualization and cloud based api’s). We refer to this as a Cloudy World.
• Explain the components of an Agile Infrastructure.
• Contrast the difference between an Agile Infrastructure and Agile Operations.
• Discuss patterns of “Velocity of Innovation”.

DevOps Culture

This section includes:

• Identify anti patterns that exist in IT infrastructures.
• Discuss techniques to identify and improve communication within operations and development.
• Discuss how to identifying DevOps behaviour patterns.
• Cover “Quality” as a Culture.

DevOps Automation

This section includes:

• An overview of infrastructure as Code.
• Provide a description and explanation of what “Fully Automated Infrastructure” means and provide examples.
• Explain how popular configuration management products solve resources management by using convergence.
• Discuss orchestration scenarios and provide some example cases being used today.
• Explain “Continuous Delivery” as a operations model for making an organisations operations agile.

Devops Measurement

This section includes:

• Cover monitoring and how it applies to Devops scenarios.
• Discuss popular data collection techniques and tools used in Devops sceneros.
• Discuss how Complex Event Processing (CEP) is being used to manage IT infrastructure along with Event Stream Processing (ESP) tools.
• Discuss tools used to do analyse time series data used in IT management scenarios.
• Discuss popular techniques of lean organisations applying continuous improvement techniques to their operational processes.
• Discuss the role of “Service Management” in DevOps.

DevOps Sharing

This section includes:

Case Study 1 – Shopzilla - A Devops Culture Story

Shopzilla, Inc. manages a premier portfolio of online shopping brands in the US and Europe, consisting of Bizrate, Beso, Shopzilla,TaDa, PrixMoinsCher, and SparDeinGeld. Shopzilla connects shoppers with over 100 million products from tens of thousands of retailers with its unique portfolio of engaging and informative websites. Reaching a global audience of over 40 million shoppers each month through both its destination websites and affiliate network, Shopzilla is a leading source of sales and consumer feedback for online merchants and retail advertisers. With offices in Los Angeles, San Diego, and London, the company operates sites and business services in the United States, the United Kingdom, France and Germany. Shopzilla, Inc. is owned by Scripps Networks Interactive (NYSE:SNI).

Case Study 2 – Sonian - Infrastructure as Code

Sonian is a technology platform and hosted services company on a mission to help millions of organizations world-wide manage their critical IT functions such as archiving, search, compliance, e-discovery and storage management. The Sonian platform is easy to use, cost effective, scalable and secure. The Company leverages a mixture of Web 2.0 frame works, open source components, proprietary intellectual property, and grid computing utility infrastructure to deliver competitive hosted services at a fraction of the cost of other current vendors.

Case Stud 3 – Wealthfront - Continuos Delivery

An SEC registered investment adviser, Wealthfront makes it possible for investors to access outstanding registered money managers who might require a minimum investment of $1,000,000 or more outside of Wealthfront. We also enable quality money managers to grow their businesses by accessing new potential customers in a scalable and cost effective manner. The company is staffed with veterans from the eCommerce, investment and university endowment worlds. Wealthfront has raised more than $10 million in venture capital from DAG Ventures, as well as a number of individuals including Marc Andreessen, Jeff Jordan, CEO of Open Table and former President of PayPal, and partners from Benchmark Capital, Index Ventures and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. Its innovative business model has been featured in articles in leading publications and media outlets such as The Wall Street Journal, CNBC, Bloomberg Business Week, MarketWatch, Barron's, Fast Company and The Financial Times.