Lian Li
GitOps for the people
#1about 5 minutes
Introducing Money Bank and its engineering challenges
A fictional fintech company serves as a case study for common enterprise delivery problems, including slow manual processes and siloed teams.
#2about 4 minutes
Proposing initial solutions for delivery bottlenecks
The initial transformation strategy involved implementing automated testing, adopting Kubernetes for environment consistency, and using GitOps for auditable deployments.
#3about 2 minutes
Analyzing the original manual release process
The initial delivery workflow was slow and error-prone, relying on manual handoffs between developers, a release manager, product owners, and the ops team.
#4about 4 minutes
Automating the release manager role with CI/CD
The first improvement automated the build and deployment pipeline to dev and staging environments, replacing the manual release manager role with a Jenkins and ArgoCD workflow.
#5about 6 minutes
Introducing ReleaseOps to integrate non-technical stakeholders
ReleaseOps was developed to solve remaining delays by using Jira tickets to trigger and track the entire CI/CD pipeline, allowing non-technical stakeholders to participate directly.
#6about 2 minutes
The future is building your own internal developer platform
The trend towards building custom internal developer platforms (IDPs) empowers teams to create tailored tooling that fits their specific needs, abstracting away infrastructure complexity.
#7about 4 minutes
Audience Q&A on DevOps, tools, and process
The speaker answers audience questions about the differences with DevOps, tool choices like Jenkins vs GitLab, environment strategy, and handling release process issues.
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