Is Platform Engineering the new Ops?
- 1. Is Platform Engineering the new Ops? Philipp Garbe @pgarbe
- 3. ● Philipp Garbe (@pgarbe) ● Lead Platform Engineer @Scout24 ● Docker Captain ● Living in Bavaria ● Working in the Cloud About Me
- 5. ● Dev vs Ops ● DevOps as a role ● Engineering teams and shared infrastructure ● Platform Engineering Agenda
- 6. Dev vs Ops
- 7. Dev QA Ops
- 8. Dev + QA Ops
- 9. Conway’s Law "Organizations which design systems ... are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations." Melvin E. Conway (April 1968)
- 10. Architecture Monolithic application One repo One database Monolith
- 11. Why did we change it? ● We wanted to release faster and more often ● Different goals led to discussions ○ Ops: Optimize for stability ○ Dev: Optimize for speed
- 12. DevOps as a role
- 13. Dev Ops DevOps
- 15. ● Not every Dev became a DevOp ● Ops became not part of DevOps ● VMs were still not in control of teams ● Time to market: More speed by leveraging managed services Why did we change it?
- 16. Tatsu
- 19. DevOps is a culture, not a role!
- 20. ● Yes, it costs money ● But it is an investment ○ In your people ○ In code quality YBIYRI - You build it, you run it!
- 21. Architecture Self Contained Systems Microservices 20% time for infrastructure stories
- 22. We changed only the 20% rule ● In many teams if felt wrong doing so much infrastructure / shared services ● Teams wanted to focus on their products ● T-Shape skills often didn't match ● It doesn't scale Why did we change it?
- 25. Eliminate all friction from commit to customer Our mission
- 28. Shared Responsibility Model Cluster Services Platform Team Product Team
- 29. Isn’t that Ops? NO, because... ● It is a managed product ● Teams can use it or not ● Teams are responsible for their services
- 30. NO because... ● It’s not about hosting services from other teams ● It’s about developing products for users ● It’s about products that enable feature teams to work faster ● It’s basically a new mindset Be careful: ● Do not abstract the cloud ● You’re in competition with the cloud Is Platform Engineering the new Ops?
- 31. NO because... ● DevOps is not a role or team but a culture ● Platform engineering teams should be cross-functional ● Product engineering teams as well Is Platform Engineering the new DevOps?
- 32. Questions?
- 33. Philipp Garbe Twitter: @pgarbe Blog: garbe.io Join us: boards.greenhouse.io/ scout24