Mr Miyagi's DevOps Dojo

George Miranda - Tuesday, February 3 11:20-12:00 - B.4.039

"DevOps" means different things to different people. But now many vendors are slapping a "DevOps" sticker on the same software they've sold for 20 years and calling it new. How can we say that's not DevOps when we can't wrap our heads around the general practices of DevOps?

We don't all need to deploy 10+ times per day to production, but there's still a common set of practices we're embracing as a community. The DevOps talent pool needs to grow faster before more half-baked "DevOps Toolkits" try to fill the void we should be filling with experienced practitioners. So how do we get there?

We'll look at observations from having helped many orgs in different phases of adopting DevOps to ask the question: if Mr Miyagi was training the next wave of DevOps Engineers, what chores would he use to instill the right bits of muscle memory that turn us into prize fighters?

Slides are available on Speaker Deck.

About George Miranda

George Miranda has made a career working as an Infrastructure Monkey in Web Ops for over 15 years at a variety of small dotcoms and large, before joining CHEF and working with a variety of small dotcoms and large enterprises trying to get started with Configuration Management, DevOps, and Continuous Delivery. He joined Chef as a part of the Professional Services group, but now spends most of his time working with Chef ecosystem partners. He spends a lot of time pondering how we, as a community, can scale DevOps to stay ahead of the market demand tsunami that enables things like ‘streamlined suites of devops cloud enablement tools' to exist. When he reads phrases like that, he is sometimes forced to take solace in Belgian beer.