Presentation given at the OpenStack summit in Paris (Kilo) on Tue Nov 4th. Last summit I had the pleasure to present a talk which encountered some success "Are enterprise ready for the OpenStack transformation?" (also published on SlideShare) . This talk is a follow up on what are the best practices that are successful in operating the transformation. We will first focus on identifying the right use cases for a generic enterprise, then define a roadmap with an organisational and a technical track, to finish with the definition what would be our success criterias for our group. This will happen as a workshop summary based on the multiple engagements eNovance has been delivering over the past 2 years.

1. TRANSFORMING TO OPENSTACK
A SAMPLE ROADMAP
Nick Barcet @nijaba <nijaba@redhat.com>
VP Products & Pre-sales → eNovance
Director Product Management - OpenStack → Red Hat
OpenStack Summit Kilo - November 2014

2. ABOUT ME
● VP Products & Pre-Sales @ eNovance
● Director Prod. Mgmt. – OpenStack @ Red Hat
● Been working on OpenStack since Austn
● Founded OpenStack Telemetry (aka Ceilometer)
● Traveling the world doing OpenStack
● @nijaba on irc & twiter

3. PREVIOUSLY IN ATLANTA

4. ARE ENTERPRISES READY FOR THE OPENSTACK
TRANSFORMATION
● Openstack is not a product
● It will never be “enterprise ready” by itself
● License costs are marginal
● Concentrate on enabling beter processes
● And beter tools
● Transforming your enterprise to produce more value
http://www.slideshare.net/NicolasBarcet/are-enterprises-ready-for-the-openstack-transformation

5. DEVOPS
TRANSFORMATION?

6. TWO DIMENSIONS OF DEVOPS
STANDARDIZATION AUTOMATION
PEOPLE
PROCESS TECHNOLOGY
CONTINUOUS
IMPROVEMENT

7. STANDARDIZATION
STANDARDIZE TECHNOLOGY
• Operating systems (with patch levels)
• Application servers
• Libraries, Languages, Tooling
• Build and packaging technologies
• Commercial Off The Shelf
STANDARDIZE PROCESSES
• Systems Development Life Cycle
• Release management
• Monitoring
• Escalation management

8. THREE LEVELS OF AUTOMATION
APPLICATION LIFE CYCLE AUTOMATION
Application
MIDDLEWARE PLATFORM AUTOMATION
Web/app servers | Libraries
INFRASTRUCTURE AUTOMATION
Virtualization | OS | Bare metal
ACCELERATE DEVOPS USING
REDHAT OPEN HYBRID CLOUD
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9. C O N T IN U O U S IM P R O V E M E N T
MEASURE
ROI—
METRICS
IMPROVE
MONITOR
DEPLOY
TEST
CODE
BUILD
PLAN
AGILE

10. PEOPLE
DEVOPS
PROCESS TECHNOLOGY
PEOPLE
• Cultural paradigm shift
• Cross-training of skills
• Collaboration and involvement
of teams across all aspects
from designing through
monitoring of application
• The question everyone should
ask is “Is my application
driving business value based
on the state it is in now?”
• Short-lived and interim DevOps
Enablement Team can be
created in organizations

11. PROCESS
• Agile methodologies
• Governance and continuous
feedback loops to reduce and
eliminate technical debt
• Defne metrics for measure
• Project is not done until the
application is driving value for
the customers and business
• Automate everything
• If something breaks, don’t hack.
Fix the automation script and start
over.
• Common frames of reference (for
dev, qa and ops) for application
monitoring in production
• Developers on call
PEOPLE
DEVOPS
PROCESS TECHNOLOGY

12. TECHNOLOGY
• Automation is key. OpenStack and
OpenShift provide lots of required
automation capabilities
out-of-the-box.
• Standardize software versions,
patch levels, and provisioning
mechanisms
• Faster application environment
provisioning, root cause analysis
• Notifcations and pro-active
monitoring
PEOPLE
DEVOPS
PROCESS TECHNOLOGY

13. A SAMPLE ROADMAP

14. BACKGROUND
• IT has been externalized in a
separate entty serving the group
• Shadow IT is creeping up (AWS)
• External compettors to IT
• Fear about loss of data control
Must ofer a cloud internally, but how?
Existence of IT at risk
Compliance risk

15. ASSESSMENT WORKSHOP
• 2 day workshop
• All stakeholders in the same room
• List of 40 use cases prepared in advance

16. MATURITY ASSESSMENT
• Advanced automaton capabilites
• Multple deployments a day
• Capabilites as a Service
• Templatze individual infrastructure
ters; Containers
• Auto-Scaling, Pro-actve monitoring
and automatc management
Self-provisioning of
• Virtual Machines
• Platorms
• Applicaton Environments
• Templatze n-ter architecture
ters and complex environments
• Contnuous Deployment and push-buton
applicaton deployments
• One deployment a day
• Contnuous Integraton
• Infrastructure as code
• Basic automaton & auto-scaling
• Migraton of VMs to OpenStack (IaaS)
• Development of greenfeld applicatons in OpenShif (PaaS)
• Basic systems provisioning through standardizaton
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17. FROM USE CASES TO POPULATIONS
From the use cases, 3 discrete populaton groups
emerged:

18. HIGH LEVEL ROADMAP

19. 3 MILESTONES (1/3)
Milestone 1
Standardizaton
Commoditzaton
● Build a frst environment
○ Used by CI for testng
○ Contnuously Deployed
● Play ground for admins
○ No producton impact, all tech features available
Goals:
➔ Defne the frst version of the portal
➔ Propose an SLA for Devs

20. 3 MILESTONES (2/3)
Milestone 2
Ops and Devs
join theirs eforts
● Build a development environment
○ First producton app (low hanging fruit)
○ First reportng billing
○ Deployed automatcally when test are ok in frst env
Goals:
➔ Defne frst stacks template
➔ Defne UI for applicaton provisioning
➔ Propose the SLA for frst users

21. 3 MILESTONES (3/3)
Milestone 3
End users results delivered
● Build a producton environment
○ mult data center
○ smart placement interface
○ complete billing / reportng
○ Deployed automatcally when validated by Dev
Goals:
➔ Validate SLA + Functons
➔ Defne next applicatons priorites

22. 3 ENVIRONMENTS FROM ONE SOURCE

23. C O N T IN U O U S D E L IV E R Y
REDHAT OPEN HYBRID CLOUD
IDEA
PRODUCT
FEATURE
SELF
PROVISIONING
ENVIRONMENT
STANDARDIZATION
AUTO
SCALING
CENTERALIZED
OPS MANAGEMENT
DEV QA UAT PROD
IDE CONFIGURATION
MANAGEMENT
CONTINUOUS
INTEGRATION
MONITORING
CYCLE TIME
PRODUCT
MANAGER
DEVELOPERS TEST
ENGINEERS
OPERATIONS
PERSONNEL
CONTINUOUS DELIVERY

24. METHOD

25. R O L E S , S P R IN T S A N D M IL E S T O N E S

26. P O P U L A T IO N T R E N D S
PO PO
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27. SUMMARY

28. PROBLEMS
● IT has been externalised
in a separate entity
serving the group
● Shadow IT is creeping
up (AWS)
● IT also has external
competitors
● Group is fearing loss of
data control
SOLUTIONS BENEFITS
● Offer an internal IaaS and
PaaS Cloud
● Build a self service portals
for Admins, Devs and Ops
● Organize small teams with
cross roles members
● Use SCRUM to enable rapid
feedback based adaptability
● Grow agile/devops
awareness through
contamination, not top down
decision
● Use cloud as the opportunity
to go devops
● Reduce time to market not
only for IT assets but
throughout the organisation
● Retain sensitive information
internally
● Obtain clear reports on costs
and purpose
● Grow self responsibility in all
teams
● IT returns as a solution
providers instead of a road
block
● Refocused teams on solving
business problems
SUMMARY

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