DevOps Demo - Learning DevOps by Doing It

# Learning DevOps

#### By Doing It

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## Why?

Let's start with why.

Lean Startup Canvas is good for this.

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## Lean Startup Canvas

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## Problems to Solve

List your customer's top 3x problems

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### Problem #1

I've heard about the benefits of DevOps...

But struggle to really understand why it is better.

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### Problem #2

I understand the concepts of Devops...

But don't have experience in doing it.

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### Problem #3

I want to apply DevOps to my work...

But certifications only give me knowledge, not practice.

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## Existing Alternatives

List how these problems are solved today

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### On the job experience

Work where they are doing DevOps well

Work for a DevOps consultancy

Note: You are lucky if you work at a place doing DevOps well... or getting to work with an experienced DevOps consultant. Trying it out on your own project is hard.

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## Solution

A possible way to address the problems.

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**DevOps Demo** is a guided do-it-yourself project

Covering the full spectrum of DevOps concepts

To help you...

* Appreciate the value of DevOps first hand
* Get hands-on experience applying DevOps
* Deeper learning of DevOps through practice

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## Value Proposition

Why this is different and worth your time and effort

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Unlike other courses or certifications...

you will apply DevOps practices

whilst building your own DevOps toolkit.

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The toolkit you build will be **yours to use as you will**

(including the ability to customize and expand upon it).

**Helping you** to educate and train your peers

in understanding DevOps practices.

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## High-Level Concept

DevOps Demo is like learning a language by visiting the country (as opposed to just studying it via a book).

And then coming home armed and ready to teach that language to others.

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## Unfair Advantage

Learning through **applied** practice

**whilst also** building a useful tool for yourself

through a guided do-it-yourself project.

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## Customer Segments

* Those considering DevOps certification / courses
* Software Engineers / Budding DevOps Engineers
* Agile practioners (Scrum Masters, etc)

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## Customer's Customers

* Potential employers (demonstrate DevOps expertise)
* Peers (showcase your project)
* Colleagues (share and teach DepOps concepts)

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## Early Adopters

You 😉

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## Channels

* Learning marketplaces (i.e. Udemy)
* Web via own website and LMS (i.e. Thinkific)
* Direct engagement from Organizations (i.e. training)

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## Your Channels

* Your GitHub account
* Your own website (incl. domain and hosting accounts)
* Add and control your own IP 🤩

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## Key Metrics

* Number of completed personal sites

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## Cost Model

* **Little-to-no cost** to learners (for personal sites)
* Primarily self-service with minimal live-touch

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## Revenue model

* Affordable course fees

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# Empathy

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## Gemba Walk

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### What is a Gemba Walk

(insert overview)

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# What We Will Do

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### Your Learning Journey

Walking through how you will learn DevOps through building and running your own personal site, applying DevOps practices and concepts.

Made **modular**, so you can choose **"your own adventure"** to suit your interests, needs, and priorities.

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# Solution Overview

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Insert solution diagram (or link to that slide deck)

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# Assignment #1

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## Overview

* Think of it as "IaC" or "GitOps"

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## What You Need

* GitHub Account
* AWS Account  (Route53 Domain)
* Vercel Account

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### DO - Initial Repo

* Copy template repo "dr3dr3/template-gitops"
* Create a GHA PAT with needed permission
* Edit repositories.yml
* Run workflow

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### Created in GitHub

* Repo for GitOps (provisioning and changes)
* Repo for CI/CD Pipeline
* Repo for Stage deployments
* Repo for Production deployments
* Repo for your first micro-frontend

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## Base Setup

* Vision - What we will build and why
* Backlog - Covering the learning modules
* Solution - The end-to-end barebones

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## Continuous Integration Modules

* The developer experience
* Automating builds
* etc

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## Continuous Deployment Modules

* Automating deployments
* etc

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## Release on Demand Modules

* Feature Flags
* Blue / Green Deployments
* etc

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## Continuous Learning Modules

* Experiments
* Fast Feedback
* etc

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## Continuous Exploration Modules

* Hypothesize
* etc

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### Lean Thinking / Mindset Modules

* Shift left
* etc

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# End