This session will cover the history of Devops. We will look at some of it’s early influences and influencers. Also included will be some best practice case studies and an overview of some of the most widely used tools.

1. Deming to Devops
John Willis
Technical Evangelist

2. @bglpe
@botchagalupe
• a.k.a. John Willis
• 35 Years in IT Operations
• Exxon, Canonical, Chef,
Enstratius, Socketplane
• Devopsdays Core Organizer
• Devopscafe on iTunes
• Tweet to @bglpe for Questions

3. What is Devops?
“DevOps is a cultural and professional
movement” - Adam Jacob
“DevOps is a banner for change
- Ben Rockwood”
“No one can tell you exactly what it is, but
you know it when you see it work”
- Botchagalupe
“DevOps is continuously looking for new ways to break
down silos, eliminate inefficiencies, and remove the risks
that prevent the rapid and reliable delivery of software-
based services” - Damon Edwards
“DevOps is what some people are calling the renewed
cross-interest in development and operations
collaboration” - John Allspaw

4. Devops is About Delivery
devop2ops.com

5. The Three Ways of Devops

6. The History
of
Devops

7. Charles Robert Darwin
On the Origin of Species - 1859
Father of Nondeterminism

8. Ludwig Eduard Boltzmann
Statistical Mechanics -1870
Applies Darwin’s ideas to Gases
The Exact Becomes Probable in Science

9. Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck
Planck Constant - 1900
Accidentally discovers quantum physics
Discovers how to measure the un measurable

10. Albert Einstein
Photoelectric Effect - 1905
Uses Plan Constant
Quantum Physics is a foot.

11. Walter A. Shewhart
Statistical Process Control - 1924
Works at Western Electric
Applies Statistical Mechanics to Quality
Statistical Process Control is born

12. William Edwards Deming
Deming Goes to Japan
Deming’s Speech at Mount Hakone, Japan 1950
!

13. Taiichi Ohno
Toyota Production Systems
1948 - 1975
TPS is a totally new way of thinking
Becomes Lean

14. Eliyahu M. Goldratt
Theory of Constraints (TOC) - The Goal 1984
Helps clarify the concept of “Flow
The Phoenix Project is a rewrite

15. John Krafcik
Triumph of the Lean Production System
1988
America Discovers Lean
Becomes the start of Lean Manufacturing

16. Mike Rother
1999- Learning to See: Value Stream Mapping to
Add Value and Eliminate MUDA
2009 - Toyota Kata

17. Mark Burgess
1998- Computer Immunology
Cfengine -> Puppet -> Chef

18. Agile Manifesto
Agile Manifesto - 2001

19. Mary and Tom Poppendieck
Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit - 2003
Changes to story from manufacturing to software dev
An important transition
!

20. David J Anderson
Kanban for Software - 2003
Reads the “Goal” and inspires

21. Steve Bell
Lean Enterprise Systems - 2005
Later writes Lean IT w/Mike Orzen
Another important transition

22. Steve Blank
The Four Steps to the Epiphany - 2005
Make sure Eric Ries doesn’t get all the credit
Uses lean concepts for startups
gemba, cust dev methodology, small changes

23. Agile Conference 2006
The real birth of Devops
Jez Humble, Chris Read, Dan North

24. The Godfather
Devops 2008 - Agile Conference
First Devopsdays Conference 2009 - Ghent
Coined the term
Has been an excellent guardian and facilitator

25. John Allspaw
O’reilly Velocity 2009 - 10+ Deploys Per Day: Dev and
Ops Cooperation at Flickr
2010 - Web Operations (book)

26. John Willis and Damon Edwards
subscribe in
iTunes
devopscafe.org
CAMS - 2010

27. Eric Ries
The Lean Startup - 2011
IMVU - applies “4 Steps”
Brilliance is he applies Deming/Lean
Now the de facto for startups

28. Gene Kim
The Phoenix Project - 2013
Rewrite of the Goal
enclaves and robots become java stacks and sys admins