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Presentation of the DevOps approach

Establish a definition of DevOps

• What is not DevOps
• What is DevOps

The stakes and the vision of the DevOps approach

• The origins of this transformation process
• State of the market and goals for his business
• The role of automation in the process

The different pillars of DevOps: CAMS

• The common culture as a line of sight
• Automation at the service of collaboration
• Measure to know where you are and observe progress
• Sharing between different actors

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The concepts of agility for understanding DevOps

An introduction to agility

• The Agile Manifesto as a source of inspiration
• The values ​​and principles of Agility
• A response to the limits of classical / predictive methods
• The family of Agile methods: XP, Scrum, Crystal, Kanban, Lean ...

Presentation of different agile practices

• Iterative deliveries for flexibility and fluidity
• A different approach in the organization of the team
• Prioritization and planning techniques in the agile world
• Collectively improve by retrospectives

Declining agile concepts in the world "Ops"

• The impacts of agility on the world of Ops
• Transposition of Agile Principles and Values ​​into Infrastructure
• Adaptation to the different types of work of the world Ops
• Agile practices and methods in the world Ops: Kanban, Scrum ...

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DevOps tooling and Infrastructure as Code principles

From continuous integration to continuous deployment

• Integration continues as a starting point (Jenkins, Git, Maven ...): source management, automated testing, creation and storage of artifacts
• The extension of agile concepts for production
• The introduction of Continuous Delivery and focus of different processes
• To know how to put tools and to make live the different tools
• Modern supervision approaches, new indicators
• Using ChatOps

Principles of Infrastructure as Code

• The control of the infrastructures by the APIs (AWS, OpenStack, vSphere ...)
• Configuration management (Puppet, Chef, Ansible ...)
• The Software Defined Networking
• Containerization technologies (LXC, Docker, Kubernetes ...)

Tooling as a pretext for collaboration

• Common projects of technical improvements
• Need for shared tools
• Good transverse technical practices
• Technical requirements and automation

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Great implementation principles

Evaluate yourself to know your way

• Concept of maturity model
• Realize an inventory of practices
• Definition of major axes of change, associated actions

Implementation of a transformation

• Use existing models or build yours
• Definition of pilot phases
• Setting goals and knowing how to measure as and when

Generalization of practices

• Identify success stories
• The role of evangelization
• Patterns and anti-patterns

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DevOps in today's business

The impacts of adopting DevOps

• Adoption and controls of software development best practices
• Operational teams as a service center
• New tools for new uses (autoscaling, clustering, "Pets Vs. Cattle", ...)
• Component architecture and micro-services architecture, role of container orchestration
• A new culture

DevOps and ITIL

• The common search for fluidity
• DevOps impacts on ITIL processes
• Towards a standardization of changes

Beyond DevOps

• Internal and external communication
• End-to-end agility
• Evaluation of the winnings
• How to know if the goal is reached?