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Operationalize all the
NETWORK things
Lori MacVittie
Principal Technical Evangelist @ F5 Networks
@lmacvittie
About Lori
Developer Lori
• 9 years software
development
– Enterprise architecture
– Telecom
– ISVs
• Still hobby coding
– PHP + vi FTW
Networking Lori
• 6 years Network Computing
Test Lab
– Networking
– Security
– Integration and Middleware
• 8 years F5 Networks
– Technical Marketing
– Evangelism
M.S. Computer Science
IT is an application world
Convenience New Services Personalization
Mobile apps influence 5.1%
of US retail store sales
roughly $159B in 2012
24
74% of innovative
organizations will monetize
new applications and
services.
Companies who personalized
experiences on average
achieved a sales uplift of 19
percent.
is the new measure of success
Time to market
That’s why orgs are changing
Sources: Version One, 8th Annual State of Agile. CA, What Smart Businesses Know About DevOps.
32PERCENT
41PERCENT
chose Agile to
accelerate time to market
chose DevOps to
accelerate time to market
Notice something missing?
Dev Ops
?
The network is in the way
of IT professionals surveyed say that once an
application completes the dev process, it takes
a week or more to move into production; for
14% of those, it’s a month or more.
43
PERCENT
Data: InformationWeek 2014 DevOps Survey, ESG
Organizations citing biggest challenge
to application deployments is time to
provision network services.
44
PERCENT
Change in infrastructure complexity over 12 to 24 months
Source: Information Technology Intelligence Consulting via GigaOm
Decreased somewhat
40%
50%Increased substantially
Increased somewhat
Remained the same
Decreased substantially
4%
1%
1%
Why is the network in the way?
Why is the network in the way?
CHANGES CAUSE
SERVICE
DISRUPTION
NETWORK
CHANGES ARE
SLOW
24% 22% 16% 12%
HARD TO
MANAGE
CHANGES TO THE
NETWORK
APPLICATION
CHANGES
REQUIRE
NETWORK
CHANGES
Source: IDC's Why the Network Matters Survey - November, 2012
because traditional methods
Scaling, provisioning and
management are realized
device by device, system by
system
Difficult to
troubleshoot
Time consumingError prone
are not speedy, safe or scalable
25,180
Average computing devices connected to
networks and/or enterprise systems
Data Breach: The Cloud Multiplier Effect Ponemon, June 2014
Desktop Laptop
Smartphone Tablet
Median device to engineer ratio, Computer Economics 2014
Small Biz Med Biz Large Ent
Dev Ops Network
Change with Devops 4 Networks
Isn’t DevOps Dev and Ops?
Security Network “Operations” Storage
O P E R AT I O N S
Net + Ops Has Same Issues as Dev + Ops
Turret Syndrome
• Don’t collaborate well
• Success is measured on
different metrics
• Handoffs are awkward and
cause bottlenecks
• Processes are inefficient and
burdened by a tower/silo
mentality (even within silos)
Operationalize
People collaborating and using
Programmability to optimize the
Processes necessary to meet business
Priorities
SHARING
AUTOMATION
MEASUREMENT
… all the network things
Router Switch
ADC
Firewall
STATELESS
LAYER 2-4
STATEFUL
LAYER 4-7
Application
Security
Identity and
Access
DDoS
Protectio
n
Local
Load
Balancing
Global
Load
Balancing
Application
Performance
Malware
Detection
Secure Web
Gateway
Application
Proxies
Value of IT to the business
IT contribution to strategy
Customer satisfaction
Innovative new ideas
Availability
Projects delivered on time
IT cost controls
Productivity improvement
Business cost controls
Revenue growth
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
CIO Priorities
Business Concerns
IT Concerns
Top 10
Align Priorities
Measure all deployment things
Measurements often associated with DevOps:
• Deploy frequency
• Volume of defects
• MTTR
• Number & Frequency of outages
• Number & Frequency of performance issues
• Time/cost per release (deployment)
Automate all the network things
• Time/cost per release (deployment)
• Volume of defects
• Number & Frequency of outages
MEASURES IMPACTED
Optimize all the process things
Remember .. automating poor processes accelerates the rate of failure
• Deploy frequency
• MTTR
• Time/cost per release (deployment)
MEASURES IMPACTED
Add some Dev to Your (Net) Ops
• Months / waterfall
• Manual configuration
• Product manuals
TRADITIONAL DEV (OPS)
• Minutes / agile
• Programmability / API’s
• Developer community
ALL
API-Enabled
infrastructure
is somewhat
or very
important
40
PERCENT
57
PERCENT
71
PERCENT
OF THOSE WHO SAY SDN WILL IMPACT THEIR ORG
OF THOSE WHO SAY DEVOPS WILL IMPACT THEIR ORG
Need to Code Score: 5
Operations
CONFIGURE VLAN
SET UP ROUTE
ADD A SNAT
MAKE A POOL
MAKE A NODE
MAKE A MEMBER
ADD MEMBER TO POOL
CONFIGURE VLAN
SET UP ROUTE
ADD A SNAT
MAKE A POOL
MAKE A NODE
MAKE A MEMBER
ADD MEMBER TO POOL
CONFIGURE VLAN
SET UP ROUTE
ADD APP POLICY
CONFIGURE LOG
CONNECT IDENTITY STORE
DEFINE GROUPS
ACTIVATE POLICY
BEFORE APIs
AFTER APIs
Operations
CONFIGURE VLAN
SET UP ROUTE
ADD A SNAT
MAKE A POOL
MAKE A NODE
MAKE A MEMBER
ADD MEMBER TO POOL
CONFIGURE VLAN
SET UP ROUTE
ADD APP POLICY
CONFIGURE LOG
CONNECT IDENTITY STORE
DEFINE GROUPS
ACTIVATE POLICY
CONFIGURE VLAN
SET UP ROUTE
ADD A SNAT
MAKE A POOL
MAKE A NODE
MAKE A MEMBER
ADD MEMBER TO POOL
TOOLS and FRAMEWORKS USING APIs to AUTOMATE
ALL
OF THOSE WHO SAY SDN WILL IMPACT THEIR ORG
OF THOSE WHO SAY DEVOPS WILL IMPACT THEIR ORG
Data path
programmability
is somewhat or
very important
42
PERCENT
51
PERCENT
100
PERCENT
Need to Code Score: 10
SDN APPS
DATA PATH
Routing &
Switching
CONTROL PLANEData path
programmability
enabled by SDN apps
that extend an SDN
controller
Data path
programmability enabled
by network services
directly
Programmability “in the network”
Performance Access and
Identity
Availability Security Mobility
ALL
App Templates
are somewhat or
very important
33
PERCENT
51
PERCENT
52
PERCENT
OF THOSE WHO SAY SDN WILL IMPACT THEIR ORG
OF THOSE WHO SAY DEVOPS WILL IMPACT THEIR ORG
Need to Code Score: 0-2
App Templates vs Feature-driven APIs
ANSIBLE Vagrant
App Templates
Template –like systems
Operationalize all the
NETWORK things
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Principal Technical Evangelist @ F5 Networks
@lmacvittie

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Operationalize all the Network Things

  • 1. Operationalize all the NETWORK things Lori MacVittie Principal Technical Evangelist @ F5 Networks @lmacvittie
  • 2. About Lori Developer Lori • 9 years software development – Enterprise architecture – Telecom – ISVs • Still hobby coding – PHP + vi FTW Networking Lori • 6 years Network Computing Test Lab – Networking – Security – Integration and Middleware • 8 years F5 Networks – Technical Marketing – Evangelism M.S. Computer Science
  • 3. IT is an application world Convenience New Services Personalization Mobile apps influence 5.1% of US retail store sales roughly $159B in 2012 24 74% of innovative organizations will monetize new applications and services. Companies who personalized experiences on average achieved a sales uplift of 19 percent.
  • 4. is the new measure of success Time to market
  • 5. That’s why orgs are changing Sources: Version One, 8th Annual State of Agile. CA, What Smart Businesses Know About DevOps. 32PERCENT 41PERCENT chose Agile to accelerate time to market chose DevOps to accelerate time to market
  • 7. The network is in the way of IT professionals surveyed say that once an application completes the dev process, it takes a week or more to move into production; for 14% of those, it’s a month or more. 43 PERCENT Data: InformationWeek 2014 DevOps Survey, ESG Organizations citing biggest challenge to application deployments is time to provision network services. 44 PERCENT
  • 8. Change in infrastructure complexity over 12 to 24 months Source: Information Technology Intelligence Consulting via GigaOm Decreased somewhat 40% 50%Increased substantially Increased somewhat Remained the same Decreased substantially 4% 1% 1% Why is the network in the way?
  • 9. Why is the network in the way? CHANGES CAUSE SERVICE DISRUPTION NETWORK CHANGES ARE SLOW 24% 22% 16% 12% HARD TO MANAGE CHANGES TO THE NETWORK APPLICATION CHANGES REQUIRE NETWORK CHANGES Source: IDC's Why the Network Matters Survey - November, 2012
  • 10. because traditional methods Scaling, provisioning and management are realized device by device, system by system Difficult to troubleshoot Time consumingError prone
  • 11. are not speedy, safe or scalable 25,180 Average computing devices connected to networks and/or enterprise systems Data Breach: The Cloud Multiplier Effect Ponemon, June 2014 Desktop Laptop Smartphone Tablet Median device to engineer ratio, Computer Economics 2014 Small Biz Med Biz Large Ent
  • 12. Dev Ops Network Change with Devops 4 Networks
  • 13. Isn’t DevOps Dev and Ops?
  • 14. Security Network “Operations” Storage O P E R AT I O N S Net + Ops Has Same Issues as Dev + Ops
  • 15. Turret Syndrome • Don’t collaborate well • Success is measured on different metrics • Handoffs are awkward and cause bottlenecks • Processes are inefficient and burdened by a tower/silo mentality (even within silos)
  • 16. Operationalize People collaborating and using Programmability to optimize the Processes necessary to meet business Priorities SHARING AUTOMATION MEASUREMENT
  • 17. … all the network things Router Switch ADC Firewall STATELESS LAYER 2-4 STATEFUL LAYER 4-7 Application Security Identity and Access DDoS Protectio n Local Load Balancing Global Load Balancing Application Performance Malware Detection Secure Web Gateway Application Proxies
  • 18. Value of IT to the business IT contribution to strategy Customer satisfaction Innovative new ideas Availability Projects delivered on time IT cost controls Productivity improvement Business cost controls Revenue growth 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. CIO Priorities Business Concerns IT Concerns Top 10 Align Priorities
  • 19. Measure all deployment things Measurements often associated with DevOps: • Deploy frequency • Volume of defects • MTTR • Number & Frequency of outages • Number & Frequency of performance issues • Time/cost per release (deployment)
  • 20. Automate all the network things • Time/cost per release (deployment) • Volume of defects • Number & Frequency of outages MEASURES IMPACTED
  • 21. Optimize all the process things Remember .. automating poor processes accelerates the rate of failure • Deploy frequency • MTTR • Time/cost per release (deployment) MEASURES IMPACTED
  • 22. Add some Dev to Your (Net) Ops • Months / waterfall • Manual configuration • Product manuals TRADITIONAL DEV (OPS) • Minutes / agile • Programmability / API’s • Developer community
  • 23. ALL API-Enabled infrastructure is somewhat or very important 40 PERCENT 57 PERCENT 71 PERCENT OF THOSE WHO SAY SDN WILL IMPACT THEIR ORG OF THOSE WHO SAY DEVOPS WILL IMPACT THEIR ORG Need to Code Score: 5
  • 24. Operations CONFIGURE VLAN SET UP ROUTE ADD A SNAT MAKE A POOL MAKE A NODE MAKE A MEMBER ADD MEMBER TO POOL CONFIGURE VLAN SET UP ROUTE ADD A SNAT MAKE A POOL MAKE A NODE MAKE A MEMBER ADD MEMBER TO POOL CONFIGURE VLAN SET UP ROUTE ADD APP POLICY CONFIGURE LOG CONNECT IDENTITY STORE DEFINE GROUPS ACTIVATE POLICY BEFORE APIs
  • 25. AFTER APIs Operations CONFIGURE VLAN SET UP ROUTE ADD A SNAT MAKE A POOL MAKE A NODE MAKE A MEMBER ADD MEMBER TO POOL CONFIGURE VLAN SET UP ROUTE ADD APP POLICY CONFIGURE LOG CONNECT IDENTITY STORE DEFINE GROUPS ACTIVATE POLICY CONFIGURE VLAN SET UP ROUTE ADD A SNAT MAKE A POOL MAKE A NODE MAKE A MEMBER ADD MEMBER TO POOL
  • 26. TOOLS and FRAMEWORKS USING APIs to AUTOMATE
  • 27. ALL OF THOSE WHO SAY SDN WILL IMPACT THEIR ORG OF THOSE WHO SAY DEVOPS WILL IMPACT THEIR ORG Data path programmability is somewhat or very important 42 PERCENT 51 PERCENT 100 PERCENT Need to Code Score: 10
  • 28. SDN APPS DATA PATH Routing & Switching CONTROL PLANEData path programmability enabled by SDN apps that extend an SDN controller Data path programmability enabled by network services directly Programmability “in the network” Performance Access and Identity Availability Security Mobility
  • 29. ALL App Templates are somewhat or very important 33 PERCENT 51 PERCENT 52 PERCENT OF THOSE WHO SAY SDN WILL IMPACT THEIR ORG OF THOSE WHO SAY DEVOPS WILL IMPACT THEIR ORG Need to Code Score: 0-2
  • 30. App Templates vs Feature-driven APIs
  • 32. Operationalize all the NETWORK things Lori MacVittie Principal Technical Evangelist @ F5 Networks @lmacvittie

Editor's Notes

  • #4: https://econsultancy.com/blog/62326-85-of-consumers-favour-apps-over-mobile-websites#i.105gtpb1jmd0e1 (convenience) mobile (defined as smartphones for this analysis) influences 5.1 percent of all retail store sales in the United States—which translates to roughly $159 billion in forecasted sales for 2012 https://www.deloitte.com/assets/Dcom-UnitedStates/Local%20Assets/Documents/RetailDistribution/us_retail_Mobile-Influence-Factor_062712.pdf http://static.hbr.org/hbrg-main/resources/pdfs/comm/red%20hat/hbr_red_hat_report_march14.pdf (New Services) http://monetate.com/news/independent-survey-finds-large-gap-between-benefits-of-website-personalization-and-ability-to-deliver-personalized-online-experiences/ (personalization) http://www.baynote.com/2011/10 /forrester-and-shop-org-study-personalization-driving-up-average-order-values/
  • #6: 88 percent are doing agile. Over 50% are doing DevOps. These are the percentages of those who are specifically looking to accelerate time to market.
  • #13: Six Sigma is a methodology that relies on measurement, analysis, and optimization of processes. It’s used in manufacturing as well as software development, where the reduction of errors is paramount to improving quality of the resulting product. But it’s basic principles can be applied to any output produced by a process that can be measured.
  • #14: Silos and speed
  • #17: People collaborating: sharing Programmability: automation Optimizing processes: measurements = new culture
  • #19: Source is "35th Annual SIM IT Trends Study," which was announced by The Society for Information Management. Written up on CIOinsight.com http://www.simnet.org/ http://www.cioinsight.com