Avoiding the CI/CD Monolith with Team Design & Evolution @ London CD meetup, Jul 2020
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The document discusses the design and evolution of team structures for optimizing continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) practices. It emphasizes a team-centric approach over a tool-centric one and outlines the pitfalls of centralized and decentralized CI/CD models. Additionally, it highlights the importance of clear boundaries, responsibilities, and collaboration among teams to enhance developer experience and accelerate delivery flow.
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Avoiding the CI/CD Monolith with Team Design & Evolution @ London CD meetup, Jul 2020
- 1. TeamTopologies.com @TeamTopologies Avoiding the CI/CD Monolith with Team Design & Evolution Manuel Pais co-author of Team Topologies @manupaisable London CD meetup - 14 July 2020
- 2. 2 Manuel Pais Independent IT organizational consultant and trainer Ex-dev, ex-build manager, ex-tester, ex-QA lead LinkedIn instructor on Accelerating Continuous Delivery Twitter: @manupaisable LinkedIn: manuelpais
- 3. Team Topologies 3 Organizing business and technology teams for fast flow Matthew Skelton & Manuel Pais IT Revolution Press (2019) https://teamtopologies.com
- 4. “Any organization that designs a system (defined broadly) will produce a design whose structure is a copy of the organization's communication structure.” – Mel Conway, 1968 4
- 5. “if the architecture of the system and the architecture of the organization are at odds, the architecture of the organization wins” – Ruth Malan, 2008 5
- 6. “if your architecture doesn’t fundamentally support Continuous Delivery, then you’re going nowhere” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wnd-eyPoMo
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- 11. 11 facilitates knowledge via ● training, workshops ● tool/framework selection ● pairing on examples ● guidance on good practices ● mentoring, coaching Enabling Team
- 12. We need a team-centric approach for sustainable CI/CD, not tool-centric 12
- 14. Centralized vs decentralized CI/CD is missing the point 14
- 15. • Upfront decision on requirements for Continuous Delivery • “One size fits all” (monolithic thinking) • Monolithic toolchains (“Jenkinsteins”) • Overgrown home tools diverge from/don’t support emerging new practices Centralized CI/CD anti-patterns 15
- 16. • Poor levels of resilience, maintainability, scalability (“hanging from wires”) • Large blast radius for tooling issues • Fragile tool chain integration causes frequent, hard to diagnose failures • Slow evolution of the tooling and practices (“CD = pipeline”, right?) Decentralized CI/CD anti-patterns 16
- 17. We need to clarify and evolve the CI/CD boundaries & responsibilities over time 17
- 18. 18 How to encourage both: sharing good practices & tech and autonomy & ownership
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- 20. “Cognitive load is the total amount of mental effort being used in the working memory” - John Sweller 20
- 21. Intrinsic (skills) Extraneous (mechanism) Germane (domain focus) 21
- 23. CI/CD as a Platform 23
- 24. “A digital platform is a foundation of self-service APIs, tools, services, knowledge and support which are arranged as a compelling internal product.” – Evan Bottcher, 2018 24
- 25. 25 A platform is an ever evolving curated experience for internal customers.
- 27. Build & Unit Tests Static Analysis Accept. Tests 30 mins 15 mins Security Tests Deploy 27
- 28. “The objective is to eliminate unfit release candidates as early in the process as we can and get feedback on the root cause of failure to the team as rapidly as possible.” – Continuous Delivery, 2010 28
- 29. Build & Unit Tests Static Analysis Accept. Tests 30 mins 15 mins Security Tests Deploy 29
- 30. 30 Pipeline fail criteria: 1. test fails 2. test coverage decreases 3. code health decreases 4. new vulnerabilities 5. build time > 10m 6. execution time > 1h
- 31. Build & Unit Tests Static Analysis Accept. Tests 30 mins Security Tests Deploy 31 • Overall code health same or better • No blocking code issues introduced • Tests pass with growing coverage • No new vulnerabilities • Build time <= 10m • Execution <= 1h
- 32. Build & Unit Tests Static Analysis Accept. Tests 30 mins Security Tests Deploy 32 • Overall code health same or better • No blocking code issues introduced • Tests pass with growing coverage • No new vulnerabilities • Build time <= 10m • Execution <= 1h
- 33. 33 accelerate flow reduce cognitive load CI/CD services
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- 36. 36 Scale Your DevOps Initiative Beyond its Awkward Teenage Years - ABN AMRO Bank
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- 42. 42 Product Owner Mobile Developer Ops Engineer Data API Engineer
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- 45. 45 strong collaboration with stream-aligned teams for any new service or evolution Platform Behaviors
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- 47. 47 provide support and great documentation for stable services Platform Behaviors
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- 49. 49 Collaboration ● two teams working together ● defined goal or outcome ● specific time period ● mutual respect is required
- 50. 50 X-as-a-Service ● one provides, one consumes ● clear service expectations ● emphasize UX / DevEx
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- 52. 52 Expect to collaborate with a few teams to validate use cases and abstractions for each new service.
- 53. 53 The hard problem about platforms are trust and effective team interactions. Clarify & grow these first.
- 54. Team Topologies 54 Organizing business and technology teams for fast flow Matthew Skelton & Manuel Pais IT Revolution Press Order from Amazon or other retailers: https://teamtopologies.com/book
- 55. Workbook coming soon... Team Topologies for Remote Teams 55 for Remote Teams Resources: teamtopologies.com/remote-first Icon by Pixel perfect from www.flaticon.com
- 58. Thank you! teamtopologies.com 58 Matthew Skelton, Conflux @matthewpskelton Manuel Pais, Independent @manupaisable Copyright © Conflux Digital Ltd 2018-2020. All rights reserved. Registered in England and Wales, number 10890964