DevOps: The past and future are here. It's just not evenly distributed (yet).

Kris Buytaert finished the day Wednesday on the DevOps track with his presentation: "Devops, the future is here, it's just not evenly distributed yet." (slides). It was a great day with several awesome presentations on various DevOps related topics. In this presentation, Kris went over the short history of the devops movement and pointed some of the key moments, starting with the first public event where he was involved with Patrick Debois and some other like minded people in organizing the first DevOpsDays event in Gent, Belgium in October 2009, until today when DevOps is the theme of LISA11 the biggest and most important system administrator related conference. So many things have changed during this time and right now DevOps is considered the one thing in system administration that has the most energy and most passion.

In the first part of the presentation, Kris explained how we got here in the first place and why this movement is so important: breaking the silos and bringing together the developers and operations on the same team, working together for a unified goal, and achieving real value for our company.

Devops is about CAMS:

• Culture: people and processes first
• Automation: tools for configuration management, orchestration, etc.
• Measurement: if you can't measure it you can't improve it.
• Sharing: create a culture for people to share ideas.

Some of the practical advices from his presentation included topics like:

• use version control
• continuous integration
• automated deployments
• use FPM for packaging
• configuration management
• orchestration
• high availability, scalability
• monitoring

Overall this was a great presentation about the history of devops movement, the current state and the challenges that we are still having in the community. You can find more from Kris on his blog: Everything Is a Freaking DNS Problem.