Five Minutes for 10 DevOps Tools

5 Minutes for 10 DevOps Tools
Andi Mann
VP Strategic Solutions, Office of the CTO
Andi.Mann@ca.com
@AndiMann
@cainc
slideshare.net/CAinc
linkedin.com/in/AndiMann
linkedin.com/company/ca-technologies
ca.com
What is it? Why is it ‘DevOps’?
Benefits to a
DevOps approach

1. Agile Portfolio and Project Management
What is it?
Why is it ‘DevOps’?
 Automates resource balancing, requirement
gathering, prioritization, and reporting for
agile application development
 Share complex application delivery plans
between PMO, dev, ops
 With upstream (management, operations) and
downstream (education, marketing) teams
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Benefits of Agile Portfolio and Project Management
Benefits to a
DevOps approach
 Shared plans enable faster, more efficient
delivery of new capabilities
 Tracks complex timelines, costs, requirements,
and technical debt
 Facilitates systems thinking by connecting all
contributors with business goals

2. API Access Automation
What is it?
 Aggregate, authenticate, authorize and
manage access to internal and external APIs
 Integrates diverse systems and accelerates
development
 Enables shared control esp. of remote (e.g.
cloud) systems by dev and ops

Benefits of API Integration
Benefits to a
DevOps approach
 Faster development by reusing existing
internal and external services
 One-stop shop for ‘known-good’ APIs
 Integrate remote systems (e.g. cloud services)
with dev & ops controls (e.g. provisioning,
configuration management)

3. Test Automation
What is it?
 Automate code testing and compares actual
outcomes with predicted outcomes
 Assist dev and ops to apply ‘known-good’ code
in development and production
 Apply dedication to code quality and
effectiveness in meeting requirements

Benefits of Test Automation
Benefits to a
DevOps approach
 Rapid, continuous testing of new code as it is
committed streamlines flow from dev to prod
 Facilitates test-driven development for higher
quality and meeting requirements
 Frees up dev and ops time from routine testing
to more creative work and problem-solving

4. Service Virtualization
What is it?
 Simulates complex interconnected systems to
remove constraints during dev and test
 Improves code quality by enabling more
thorough testing
 Faster flow of code from dev into test, QA, and
production

Benefits of Service Virtualization
Benefits to a
DevOps approach
 Enables parallel dev, test, and QA by ‘stubbing
out’ servers, systems, and services
 Solves the problem of concurrent testing
delaying application development
 Reduces errors, accelerates testing, increases
bug detection

5. Continuous Integration
What is it?
 Ensure continuous check-in and integration of
new code as it is developed
 Smoothes the flow of code from development
into production
 Helps to ensure new development code is free
of conflicts when deployed to production

Benefits of Continuous Integration
Benefits to a
DevOps approach
 Reduces or eliminates conflicts in agile parallel
development
 Improves ability to rapidly iterate code cycles
 Enables more stable code to be deployed in
smaller releases

6 & 7. Cloud Server Automation (Provisioning & Config)
What is it?
 Automatically provision and define servers
(esp. dev & test, but also for prod)
 Empowers devs to provision without ops
putting up roadblocks
 Allows ops to empower devs and concentrate
on value-added functions
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Benefits of Cloud Server Automation
Benefits to a
DevOps approach
 Accelerates deployment to test, QA, and prod
with minimal intervention
 Reduces system conflicts and minimizes
problems caused by ‘fragile’ systems
 Using ‘known-good’ systems, services, and
config reduces errors and costs

8. Release Automation
What is it?
 Automates packaging and deployment of new
code from dev to test, QA, and prod
 Accelerates repeatable delivery of developer
output into production operations
 Frees up operations resources and reduces
production errors

Benefits of Release Automation
Benefits to a
DevOps approach
 Smoothes the flow of new releases into test,
QA, and production
 Reduces costs, errors and delays associated
with manual release
 Integrates with provisioning, configuration,
and other DevOps automation tools

9. Privileged User Password Management
What is it?
 Automatically assign, release, and protect
privileged IDs (root, admin, dbadmin, etc.)
 Shares privileged UIDs without creating
security and audit exposure
 Enables dev and ops to share access to
restricted systems and data

Benefits of Privileged User Password Management
Benefits to a
DevOps approach
 Satisfies essential ‘audit and control’
requirements for separation of duties
 Enables dev and ops to access all systems
safely and securely (e.g. data copy, code
release, firecall’, problem resolution, etc.)
 Manages password check-in, check-out, reset,
with minimal intervention or exposure

10. Performance Management
What is it?
 Automatically monitor and measure
performance to detect and remediate
problems
 Shares monitoring of applications for
performance, capacity, connectivity,
availability, etc. in dev and ops

Benefits of Performance Management
Benefits to a
DevOps approach
 Detect and prevent potential problems before
they make it to prod
 Detect and remediate actual problems after
code is deployed into prod
 Shared tool between dev and ops improves
communication and collaboration

VP Strategic Solutions, Office of the CTO ca.com
Andi Mann
Andi.Mann@ca.com
@AndiMann
@cainc
slideshare.net/CAinc
linkedin.com/in/AndiMann
linkedin.com/company/ca-technologies
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