Baby Steps: Get Your DevOps Process Started By The End of This Session
Alternate title: "Okay, we've installed Jenkins. Now what?"
DevOps is in the sweet spot for many medium size development firms, but it can be a tougher fit for others. When management is used to doing things a certain way, they can perceive the barriers to entry and risks of "merging" the development and operations teams to be too great to justify the potential rewards. Smaller teams or firms might not want to invest the time to get a big Java-style build server configured, especially when they don't host production themselves.
But DevOps doesn't have to be all or nothing and doesn't need new squares on the Org Chart to see benefits. In this session, we will examine low-risk changes you can make to the way you do things now that will start you down the DevOps path:
You should be able to see at minimum the following benefits:
If you see those benefits, you might decide to drink more of the DevOps Kool-Aid; if not, you at least know what you're missing.