& Dev Ops

Introduction to Sherwin-Williams

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 Introduction to Sherwin-Williams

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 Introduction to Sherwin-Williams

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 My role at Sherwin-Williams

◆ With Sherwin-Williams 8 years

◆ IT Manager for Architecture and
Continuous Delivery
◆ Been in IT 13 years
◆ Been an IT manager for 7 years
◆ Favorite Superhero – Captain America

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 My role at Sherwin-Williams

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 Scaled Agile Framework - SAFe

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 DevOps

“You keep using that word. I do

not think it means what you think
it means”

-Inigo Montoya (The Princess Bride)

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 Why DevOps?

◆ Efficiency - Faster time to market

◆ Predictability - Lower failure rate of new

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releases

◆ Reproducibility – Version everything

◆ Maintainability - Faster time to recovery in the

event of a new release crashing or otherwise
disabling the current system

Break down the wall between development and operations

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 DevOps is not …
Separate Silos

Dev Ops

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 DevOps is not …
Separate DevOps Silo

Dev DevOps Ops

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 DevOps is not …
“We Don’t Need Ops”

Dev DevOps Ops

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 DevOps is …
Smooth Collaboration

Dev Ops

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 DevOps is …

What is DevOps?

It’s not a team or title … it’s a pipeline.

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 DevOps is …
More collaboration and automation between the
development and operations teams = larger pipeline

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 DevOps is …
Remove the hand offs – streamline the process, challenge
everything that doesn’t add value.

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 DevOps
One team cannot do it all …
Must be a joint collaboration effort!

Code Environments

Data Tests

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 Maturity Model
Environ
Code Process Tests Data
ments

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 Maturity Model Example

Level 0 - Regressive Level 4

◆ Manual Process to deploy software Level 3

◆ Environment-specific binaries
Environ
Level 2
◆ Environment provisioned manually ments

Level 1

Level 0

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 Maturity Model Example

Level 1 - Repeatable Level 4

◆ Automated deployment to some Level 3

environments
Environ
◆ Creation of new environments is Level 2 ments

cheap
Level 1
◆ All configuration externalized and
versioned Level 0

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 Maturity Model Example

Level 2 - Consistent Level 4

◆ Fully automated, self-services push- Level 3

button process for deploying
Environ
software Level 2 ments

◆ Same process to deploy to every

Level 1
environment
◆ Environments are kept in sync Level 0

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 Maturity Model Example

Level 3 - Scaled Level 4

◆ Orchestrated deployments managed Level 3

◆ Release and rollback processes
Environ
implemented and tested Level 2 ments

Level 1

Level 0

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 Maturity Model Example

Level 4 - Optimizing Level 4

◆ All environments managed Level 3

effectively
Environ
◆ Provisioning fully automated Level 2 ments

Level 1

Level 0

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 Code

Configuration
Management

Development Operations

Code
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 CM + Operations + Development
Build a bigger and better deployment pipeline, through
consistency and reproducibility while leveraging
Code
automation.

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 CM + Operations + Development
Just a few build stats …

900 33,562 3.5 minutes

Jenkins jobs Build job executions a deployment
across 3 servers in the last year happens
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 Environments

Configuration
Management

Development Operations

Environ
ments
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 CM + Operations + Development
Creating modular environments for local development
all the way through production. Environ
ments

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 CM + Operations + Development

400 233 seconds

Servers under provision 16 servers
control Server configs, App tier,
Web tier and code base
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 CM + Operations + Development

15 minutes
provision Oracle
my.sherwin.com
Webcenter portal (8)
Webcenter content (4)
Architecture diagram was removed Webservers (4)
SSO integration
LDAP groups
Distributed cache layer

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 Tests

QA

Development Performance

Tests
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 Development + QA + Performance
Testing everything, automatically and at all tiers is
critical to moving at the speed of light.
Tests

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 Quality Engineer
◆ Provide guidance for test automation to the feature teams as
they develop tests wrapped around features/stories and ensure
test coverage.

◆ Design framework to embed testing into CI process.

◆ Provide design and guidance for mobile and browser testing.

◆ Provide support to the systems team to ensure code,

environment, data and test management.

◆ Develop, implement and maintain system integration, end-to-

end, smoke, and regression tests for the over arching
functionality being delivered.

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 Performance Engineer

◆ Provide guidance to teams with gathering/creating NFRs for

features/stories.

◆ Design/provide guidance to design a reliable and repeatable

performance test integrated with CI to measure NFRs and gather
performance trends across features.

◆ Work with/enable teams to troubleshoot performance issues by

tooling for monitoring and analysis.

◆ Support system demos by defining system level NFRs and designing

the performance tests to validate those NFRs.

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 Development + QA + Performance
Team Level

Transaction Regression Testing Jenkins Integration

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 Development + QA + Performance

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 Development + QA + Performance
Program Level

Automated Regression Testing Code-Level Release Comparisons

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 Development + QA + Performance
Program Level

During performance testing Package code-level root-causes

HP Performance Center Integration
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 Development + QA + Performance
Portfolio Level

Business Dashboard Operations Dashboard + Alerting

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 Data

Configuration
Management

Development DBA

Data
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 Development + CM + DBA
Create reproducible databases and data extracts just like
application code … but it’s a lot more complex.

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 Development + CM + DBA
Why database migrations?
◆ What state is the database in on this
machine?
◆ Has this script already been applied or
not?
◆ Has the quick fix in production been
applied in test afterwards?
◆ How do you set up a new database
instance?
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 Bringing it all together
Orchestration and automated deployments and rollbacks of applications

Data
Code

Tests
Environments

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 Bringing it all together
Orchestration and automated deployments and rollbacks of applications

Code Environments

Data Tests

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 Orchestrated Application Releases

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 Orchestrated Application Releases

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 DevOps
One team cannot do it all …
Must be a joint collaboration effort!

Code Environments

Data Tests

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 Questions?

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