Long live the DevOps team!effective team topologies

Matthew Skelton & Rob Thatcher@matthewpskelton / @robtthatcher

Skelton Thatcher Consulting, skeltonthatcher.com

Tues 15th September 2015, Edinburgh DevOps meetup group, #EdinDevOps

devopstopologies.com

Anti-Type A – Separate Silos

Dev Ops

Anti-Type B – Separate DevOps Silo

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Anti-Type C – “We Don’t Need Ops”

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Anti-Type D –‘DevOps’ team as another Dev team

Dev Ops

DevOps

Anti-Type E –DevOps as the new SysAdmin team

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Anti-Type F –Ops embedded in a Dev Team

Dev

Ops

HT: Matt Franz (@seclectech)

DevOps

Anti-Type G – Dev-DBA gap!

Dev OpsDBA

financial servicesonline paymentssoftware tools

publishingcar hire

legal software

Where?

Type 1 – Smooth Collaboration

Dev Ops[DevOps]

Type 2 – Fully Embedded

Dev Ops

Type 3 – Infrastructure-as-a-Service

Dev Ops[DevOps]

Type 4 – DevOps-as-a-Service

Dev Ops[DevOps]

Type 5 – Temporary DevOps Team

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Type 6 – ‘Facilitating’ DevOps Team

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Type 7 – SRE Team (Google)

Dev Ops

[DevOps]

SREHT: @kwdhinde

Type 8 – ‘Just run my Containers’

Dev Ops[DevOps]

HT: @jascbu

Type 9 – DB capability in Dev

Dev OpsDBA

[DevOps]

DB Dev

Type 9 – DB as a Service

Dev OpsDBaaS

[DevOps]

DB Dev

Enterprise – multiple types

HT: @EricMinick, IBM

https://twitter.com/EricMinick/status/517335119330172930

There is no ‘right’ team topology, but several ‘bad’ topologies for

any one organisation

devopstopologies.com

InfoQ

http://www.infoq.com/articles/devops-team-topologies

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Thank youMatthew Skelton

@matthewpskeltonRob Thatcher@robtthatcher