A short presentation given at the Deep Learning community meeting at the TU Vienna on March 17th, 2020. I just had a 5 minutes slot and I thought I would share a couple of things I've been doing/thinking about lately.

1. The need for new paradigms in
IT services provisioning

2. What inspired me
Paving the Last Mile to Production: Putting the "O" in
DevOps, a webinar by Travis Greene, Mark Levy and
Ian Bromehead from Micro Focus

3. They define DevOps as
The Engine to Drive Digital Transformation

4. Advantages of DevOps
 increased speed in service delivery
 reduced risk
These days of #coronavirus make it clear why it is
crucial to be able to adapt quickly to change.

5. The DevOps shift
from to

6. Issue with the monolithic approach
 it doesn’t scale

7.  development pushes for change
 operations aim at stability
High performance organizations are those who are
able to find a good balance of these two objectives
… that are not mutually exclusive
Dev versus Ops

8. Disclaimer
I’m not an expert in any of these things.

9. But
I used to work as a “sysadmin” in the last century.
When I started working at the TU-Wien things didn’t
seem to have changed that much.
Lately I’m experiencing changes in first person in my
daily job and I want to contribute to the devops
shift I’m observing.

10. Concretely
Some changes since last summer in our team:
 introduction of automation tools (ansible)
 cross-team use of Gitlab for continuous integration
 more systematic testing
 cooperation across teams

11. More concretely
For the LBD(*) cluster this is how we set up security
(authentication/authorization):
 LDAP and Kerberos fully managed by ansible
 many ansible scripts inherited from the VSC team
 Gitlab for source control used daily
 introduced testing protocols that can be easily
translated into automated scripts

12. Credits
 Lukas Linauer for doing the whole
Ansible/Gitlab/LDAP/Kerberos setup and
development
 Elias Wimmer for introducing us to Ansible

13. Another source of inspiration:
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, by Stephen
Covey

14. What is a habit
 an internalized principle
attitude
skill
knowledge

15. Let’s begin
 learning
 doing
 motivating

16. Thank you for your attention.