Case Study: Citrix Adopts DevOps Principles to Gain Efficiency and Speed Software Releases

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Eugene Lehenbauer

DevOps: Continuous Delivery

Citrix

Group Manager, IT

DO4T19S

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Abstract

Excited by the promise of DevOps and Continuous Delivery principles, Citrix turned to CA Release Automation to get them started. Learn how Citrix was able to speed application deployment times by 80% and address key pain points with their manual and scripted processes, while working to shift their culture to better embrace DevOps principles.

Eugene Lehenbauer

Citrix

Group Manager, IT

Agenda

INTRODUCTION

CHANGING DIRECTION

MYCITRIX® RELEASE AUTOMATION

LESSONS LEARNED & KEY POINTS

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Pain Points

Fragmented DevOps Adoption

Unmeasured Current States

Exec Sponsorship for “Concepts”

DevTestOps: Working More Effectively

“[Regarding Production Changes]…you get pushback and you wonder ‘why is this such a big deal?’ Being on the other side, you do understand

what’s going on. It was a big eye-opening event for me.”

CA DevOps Simulation Training

Tools as a Catalyst

DevOps Momentum

POC Criteria

Enterprise-level Platform

Process FlowsCode Flows

Licensing

Maintenance

Support

Customers

Partners

MyCitrix

MyCitrix Automated Delivery

80% Faster

Manual Deployment

97 minutes

Proof of Concept

18 minutes

Dev Redesign

MyCitrix – Redesigned

Original Monolithic Deployment

RefactoredArchitecture

New Architecture1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16

Decoupled into ‘products’

MyCitrix Automated Delivery

Manual Deployment

97 minutes

Proof of Concept

18 minutes

Automated Releases

6 minutes

Dev Redesign

25 minutes

Up Next: Automated Testing and Promotion

91 Minutes Saved = 94% Faster

MyCitrix – Cost/BenefitSavings for ‘Production’ Deliveries

Benefit Risk

ROI (3 years)

$42K Time & Error Avoidance

Other Benefits+Guaranteed SOX Compliance+Solid Reputation+Audit Trail+Self Actualization

What’s Next?

CA Service Virtualization

CA Release Automation

DevOps Projects: Lessons Learned

Mock Deployment

Early Involvement

Tech Retrospective

• Boost with DevOps Simulation Training

• Catalyze with Tools

• “Do” Release Automation

• Optimize Projects & Learn Forward

SummaryKey Points

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Recommended Sessions

SESSION # TITLE DATE/TIME

DO4T33TTech Talk: Evolve from Continuous Integration to Continuous Delivery

11/19/2015 at 12:15 pm

DO4T35TTech Talk: Integrate Infrastructure Configuration Management with Release Automation for the Best of Both Worlds

11/19/2015 at 2:00 pm

DO4X210LHands-On Lab: Build Integrations You Need with CA Release Automation Rapid Dev Kit (RDK) and SW Dev Kit (SDK)

11/19/2015 at 3:00 pm

Must See Demos

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Cloud & SaaS Deployments

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CA RA Rapid Dev. Kit, SDK

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Integrations

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Tech Talks

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Eugene "Bear" Lehenbauer (Group Manager Information Technology) drives IT Delivery Optimization at Citrix. In addition to fostering adoption of DevOps principles and solutions, he directs IT SWAT Team efforts for critical situation resolution. His background in software test engineering and IT operations management brings relevant perspective and insights to help bring architecture/dev, test, and operations efforts into alignment.

Eugene.Lehenbauer@citrix.comLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/pub/eugene-lehenbauer/22/450/523

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