10 Lessons We Learned with Cloud Foundry
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The document outlines ten key lessons learned from using Cloud Foundry, emphasizing the importance of developer onboarding, collaboration, and continuous improvement of platform processes. It suggests lowering entry barriers, establishing trust with customers, and creating services to facilitate smoother operations for developers. Additionally, it highlights the need for streamlined documentation and the value of leveraging community contributions.
10 Lessons We Learned with Cloud Foundry
- 1. 10 lessons we learned with Cloud Foundry By Neville George with Comcast @findneville 1
- 3. Copyright Comcast 2017 3 CHAMPION FIND A#1 “How do we onboard developers onto the platform?” - most requested discussion topic at CF summit customer forum Champions enable developers to envision the journey and articulate how the platform can get you there “Build and they will come” may not always be a successful strategy
- 4. Copyright Comcast 2017 4 AMBITIOUS BE#2 Onboarding big monolithic applications attracts more developers to the platform Bigger apps helps standardize on frameworks for future innovators on the platform These success stories become testimonials and the associated teams become endorsers of the platform
- 5. Copyright Comcast 2017 5 LOWER THE BAR FOR ENTRY #3 Un-necessary ticketing slows down a fast platform. Evaluate and eliminate the slowest link on the platform constantly. Build tools, services and documentation to make the platform faster Evaluate periodically what your biggest ticket generators are move them up on your backlog for automation
- 7. Copyright Comcast 2017 7 SE-APS-USAGE-PRD-AS UltraSuperAwesomeSpaceOfMindblowinglyAwesomeAwesomeness
- 8. Copyright Comcast 2017 8 FORMALIZE YOUR ENVIRONMENT #4 Institute overall platform standards and individual foundation standards Onboard new development teams with DO and DO-NOTs Remind and reinforce when rules are broken
- 9. Copyright Comcast 2017 9 #5 COLLABORATION FOSTER Enable the platform developer community to grow organically Allows platform operators to focus on delivering more tools and services for the developers Developers have brought other developers to the community. Today we are a grand (1K) community.
- 11. Copyright Comcast 2017 11 #6 TRUST ESTABLISH Keep customers informed of platform activities proactively Establish regular briefings for customers to voice concerns, ask questions and for operators to provide platform updates Publicize your platform metrics for consumption by anyone within your company
- 12. Copyright Comcast 2017 12 #7 CROWD SOURCE Consolidate your documentation to avoid discrepancies Create a system where developers can edit and contribute to your documentation Leverage Github and automated pipelines to automate crowd sourced documentation
- 13. Copyright Comcast 2017 13 CONTROL YOUR DESTINY #8 Handoffs to other teams generally increases the time to deliver anything Invest in open source tooling; Make your customers’ priority your problem to solve. Tools you use / share with the community may spark interest in other teams to do the same.
- 14. Copyright Comcast 2017 14 #9 CHANGE MANAGE Traditional tools like Application Metadata stores and Change Management teams are here to stay Educating teams on how the platform is different from IaaS is crucial to ensure maintenances happen without friction Enable developers to advertise their applications to Application metadata stores by providing guidelines
- 15. Copyright Comcast 2017 15 #10 CREATE YOUR OWN SERVICES Services help reduce the burden on application owners managing infrastructure and creating microcosms Ticketing trends & collaboration with developers help identify the slowest gear in the platform Collect information. Create services. Repeat.
- 16. Learn More. Stay Connected. 16 #springone@s1p Expand Cloud Foundry for the Enterprise Tim Leong | Wed 11:30 | Room 2004 How Comcast embraced Open Nithya & Shilla | Wed 17:40 | Room 2010 Keynote Panel with Comcast Greg Otto | Thur 9:35 AM Reimagining customer experiences utilizing Pivotal Cloud Foundry Jason & Vipul | Tues 3:20 | Room 2012 Going cloud native at Comcast Todd Migliore | Tues 17:00 | Room 2011
- 17. Learn More. Stay Connected. 17 #springone@s1p Comcast Booth * Platform Operators * * Application Owners * * Open Source Promoters * * Recruting *
- 18. Copyright Comcast 2017 18 Q & A
Editor's Notes
- #4: Talk about the levels of the champions