Enterprise DevOps Framework: Transforming IT Operations

by Shamayel M. Farooqui

Overview

Transform your IT organization from one weighed down by set practices to one with a DevOps culture and a cloud-first strategy that is optimized by automation and other lean practices. In this engaging read, you will discover the opportunities, challenges, lessons, and rewards that CA Technologies encountered when making their agile and DevOps transformation.

In Enterprise DevOps Framework author Shamayel Farooqui shows you how agile adoption will enable your organization to stay ahead in an ever-changing business environment and meet your customers’ needs. He includes detailed references to key concepts such as agile, hybrid and cloud technology, infrastructure management, and process automation.

What You’ll Learn

• Establish the focus areas for your IT organization

• Prepare for the challenges of transforming your enterprise to a DevOps, agile organization

• Know the key steps for executing an enterprise DevOps strategy

• Build a strong team of DevOps individuals focused on improving the efficiency of your organization through Agile methodologies, automation, cloud adoption, and “infrastructure as code” practices

Who This Book Is For

IT administrators, operational personnel, cloud professionals, DevOps professionals, human resources professionals, managers, and C-level staff

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781484236116
Publisher:	Apress
Publication date:	08/08/2018
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	121
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

Shamayel M. Farooqui is a serial innovator who thrives on building creative solutions to solve complex IT problems. He has successfully led IT teams which specialize in enabling DevOps within an organization by the using the power of automation. The teams he managed have been responsible for developing automation for business process automation and cloud management, including application migration on public cloud. He designed an innovation framework to simplify the process of driving innovation in an enterprise and has been at the helm of introducing a disruptive approach for modernizing IT processes and to ensure business is optimized by using these practices. He is well versed with cloud technology and is at the forefront of the adoption of IAAS and PAAS within his organization.

Shamayel has also designed and architected the automation framework for implementing process automation solutions. He has delivered Process Automation as a Service for his organization, which was used to drive multiple optimization initiatives successfully to reduce operational costs and risks for IT. He has been a champion for running lean IT and has played the role of a mentor by coaching many IT engineers on automation and innovation practices.

Shamayel has a master’s degree in computer science from Loyola University, Chicago and a certification from MIT’s Sloan Executive Education, titled “Innovation of Products and Services: MIT’s Approach to Design Thinking”.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Introduction

This chapter sets the context for the story that follows. It provides an overview of the changing landscape in the technology space and the measures IT companies are taking to ensure they are not left behind in the race for innovation.

• · The IT industry in its current state
  
• · How traditional IT functions and how the imbalance has crept in
  

Chapter 2. How IT Operated

This chapter talks about the author’s first impression of the organization that he had just joined. He throws light on how the organization functioned, captures some interactions with his colleagues, and their state of mind. The author also talks about the processes that were followed then and some of the technologies which were the backbone of the organization.

• · People
  
• · Process
  
• · Technology
  

Chapter 3. Automation—Baby Steps Toward IT Transformation

This chapter talks about the initial steps taken by the organization that build the momentum toward achieving the larger goal of optimizing its current operations. It gives examples of a few specific use cases that were initially picked to be automated and how they turned the tide in favor of automation. This chapter also introduces a few key leaders who were instrumental in the transformation process that the book talks about.

Chapter 4. Early Successes and Challenges

This chapter talks about some challenges that were faced by the organization during the transformation phase which included mindset of the people and the technical limitations to implement automation. How the process to achieve automation evolved and automation started seeing adoption.

Chapter 5. Hopping onto the Cloud

This chapter details the phase when the company started looking at cloud as a viable solution for infrastructure needs. The challenges that cloud brought with it and the benefits that the company started seeing with the cloud adoption

Chapter 6. Enter the Dragon (& the Bots)

This chapter covers a very critical phase in the transformation journey. Once the challenges on cloud were identified, the team had to quickly adapt and come up with ways to solve these problems. The solutions had to be deployed at a big scale and manual mode of performing operations no more seemed like a viable solution. This is when the team came up with a set of automation solutions which they termed as the ’Cloud Dragons’

Chapter 7. Admins, the Real-Life Transformers

With automation picking up steam and with cloud in the mix, the current set of IT admins needed to evolve. This chapter talks about the expectations from the existing admins in the company and what their journey towards staying relevant looked like.

Chapter 8. Codify IT

This chapter introduces the concept of ‘Infrastructure as Code’ (IAC), including why it was important for the company to adopt IAC, the challenges faced, the path to adopting IAC, and the benefits that were reaped from adopting this process.

Chapter 9. Do, Learn, Then Do Again

This chapter emphasizes on the importance of learning from the journey captured in the book and trying to repeat the journey in a much swifter manner to keep optimizing the world of operations in an IT company.

Chapter 10. Summary

This chapter summarizes the topics covered in this book and lists out the learnings that the reader can take back with him/her.