DevOps Reference Architecture

IBM Cloud: Five guiding principles

Choice with Hybrid DevOps Powerful, Cognitive

Consistency Integration Productivity Accessible Data & Solutions
Analytics
To put the To unlock To develop, To extract deeper insight To build
right workload in existing data experiment and understanding
the right place iterate at speed and learning into
decisions and
Bluemix Containers VM’s Bare Metal
interactions
Analytics Platform Watson
Public Full range of analytics and Cognitive computing systems with the
data capabilities using open ability to learn, that enhance, scale and
Dedicated source innovation for real-time accelerate, human expertise.
actionable insights.

Local
Internet of Things Insight Cloud Services
A platform designed to build Industry apps and solutions built in
The Best disruptive, data-rich solutions partnership with The Weather
Abstraction Transparency
& Dev Velocity & Control Tools that are secure and Company and Twitter that deliver new
intelligent. insights.
What is DevOps? Enterprise capability for continuous software delivery and
management that enables organizations to innovate rapidly to
capitalize on new market opportunities, and reduce the cycle
Accelerate time to collect and react to customer feedback
software delivery –
for faster time to value Lean and
Process Continuous Business Planning Agile principles

Think
Continuous Conceptualization Collaborative
Customer Feedback refinement, and Development
Balance speed, cost, & Optimization
Learn
prioritization of
capabilities Code
Steer Generation,
quality and risk –
Culture
Continuously learn enhancement,
Analytics & Cognitive based on optimization and

for increased capacity to outcomes from

experiments
Culture
DevOps
testing of
features

innovate Operate Foundational

Continuous
values and
Feedback
Develop/
Test Continuous
principles
Manage Testing
Ongoing Deliver
monitoring, Automated
Continuous support, and production and
recovery of delivery of offerings

Technology
Monitoring offerings
Deploy
Run
Services, options,
Reduce time to and capabilities
required to run in

customer feedback – for

the Cloud

improved customer Continuous Release& Deployment

experience

IBM POV >> first offer on the page

Garage Method
DevOps Reference Architecture
 Key questions to ask and address in DevOps?

Package
Planning Development SCM Build Deploy Testing Staging Production Manage Feedback
Repo

What IDE How do you How do you ensure How to you scale What happens How are defects or
How do you turn How are How do you
tooling is used? manage releases? orchestrate environment a live application when an app or incidents fed back
business strategy requirements
changes consistency between or business business service to developers?
into development captured and
across multiple dev/test/prod? service? crashes?
plans? managed? What code How do you break
repositories down one large release components? How can you predict the How can the How is client
How do you know How do teams of are used? to smaller independent How do you add
performance or health of business see that feedback captured
you are building developers How do you capacity to a live
releases? the app or service? their critical and acted upon?
the right app / collaborate on a How do you build anti-fragile application or
service? app/service is
business service? single build? do functional How do you branch and environments? What KPIs are used How do you get
operating
testing? synchronize version to measure delivery? operational
How do you know How are apps or normally?
What percentage How do you control system for feedback to dev?
of dev budget the environments How do you do services
automate How do you developing fixes or What tools are
should be spent on are secure? performance and monitored for
testing? do integration updates? used for fault How do you know
testing? operational testing? health &
testing? How do you finding and of architecture
How are security performance? changes in real
How do we inject reverse a change How do you problem root-
requirements How do you affecting a service time?
innovation and coordinate across How do you track cause-analysis?
planned into the manage test
disruptive ideas into or app and how do multiple delivery out of policy
build? plans and test you verify service How do you manage
the requirements? pipelines? changes?
results? is back to normal? a service that spans
How do you across multiple cloud
What business How is operational providers?
metrics are assess quality of
excellence
defined for the app development?
measured?
/ service success?
DevOps – applies across multiple ‘application’ domains

Package
Planning Development SCM Build Deploy Testing Staging Production Manage Feedback
Repo

Microservices Provide the runtime and services to deploy microservice applications that are resilient, agile, and scalable.

Hybrid Create applications whose components are split across cloud and on-premises environments, or across different clouds.

Build solutions that gather data from any type of source, including web and social. With those solutions, you can store, analyze, and report on
Web App data by using analytic engines to drive actionable insights and visualization.

Develop, deploy, and manage scalable native and hybrid apps for mobile devices while you are securely connected to back-end infrastructure
Mobile on the cloud or in an enterprise.

Connect to Internet of Things (IoT) devices and build scalable apps and dashboards to learn from IoT data by using IBM Bluemix IoT, Data,
IoT and Cognitive services.

Build solutions that gather data from any type of source, including web and social. With those solutions, you can store, analyze, and report on
Data & Analytics data by using analytic engines to drive actionable insights and visualization.
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Garage Method
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Continuous Business Planning

Continuous Think Collaborative

Conceptualization Development
Customer Feedback & refinement, and
Optimization prioritization of
capabilities
Steer Code
Learn Generation,
Continuously learn enhancement,
based on outcomes optimization and testing
from experiments of features
DevOps
Culture
Continuous Develop/
Operate Foundational
Feedback Test
values and principles Continuous
Testing
Manage Deliver
Ongoing monitoring, Automated production
Continuous support, and recovery of and delivery of offerings
Monitoring offerings Deploy

Run
Services, options, and
capabilities required to
run in the Cloud

Continuous Release& Deployment

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Capabilities THINK
Business Strategy

Requirements
LEARN
User Experience
Usage Analytics
Plan & Track
Team Analytics
Think Architecture
Business Analytics
Conceptualization
MANAGE refinement, and Technical Design CODE
Business Validation prioritization of
Logging capabilities
Steer
Code Concept Validation Source Code Mgt
Learn Generation,
Monitoring Continuously learn enhancement,
& Metrics optimization and Construct
based on outcomes
testing of
Event Mgt.
from experiments
features Build & Continuous
DevOps
Culture
Integration
Continuous Develop/
Alert Notification Operate Foundational
Feedback Test Code Testing
Runbook
values and principles DELIVER
Automation Deliver Environment Artifact Mgt.
Manage
Ongoing monitoring, Automated production Provisioning
Root Cause Analysis and delivery of
support, and recovery Middleware
of offerings offerings Configuration
Deploy
Incident Mgt.
Run Application
Services, options, and Deployment
Change Mgt. RUN capabilities required Ops Tooling
to run in the Cloud Integration
Operational Testing Hybrid Connectivity
Security Tooling
Integration
Hybrid Security
A/B Deployment
Autoscaling
Deployment
Orchestration
Runtimes
Release Mgt.
Run Testing
Delivery Testing
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Overall Architecture - #1 Collaborative development

Collaborative development
Collaboration tools enable a culture of innovation.
Developers, designers, operations teams, and
managers must communicate constantly.
Development and operations tools must be
integrated to post updates and alerts as new
builds are completed and deployed and as
performance is monitored. The team can discuss
the alerts as a group in the context of the tool.

Cloud services
Slack

On-premises products
IBM® Connections™
IBM Verse™

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Overall Architecture - #2 Track & Plan

Track & Plan

As the team brainstorms ideas, responds to
feedback and metrics, and fixes defects, team
members create work items and rank them in the
backlog. The team works on items from the top of
the backlog, delivering to production as they
complete work.

Cloud services
GitHub Issues and Projects

On-premises products
IBM Rational Team Concert™

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Overall Architecture – #3 Edit Code

Edit code
Developers write source code in a code editor to
implement the architecture. They construct,
change, and correct applications by using various
coding models and tools.

Cloud services
Atom
Sublime
Web IDE

On-premises products
Eclipse
IBM Rational® Application Developer

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Overall Architecture – #4 Source Code

Source control
Developers manage the versions and
configuration of assets, merge changes, and
manage the integration of changes. The source
control tool that a team uses should support
social coding.

Cloud services
GitHub
Git hosted on Bluemix

On-premises products
GitHub Enterprise

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Overall Architecture – #5 Build, test, and continuous integration

Build, test, and continuous integration

Developers compile, package, and prepare
software assets. They need tools that can assess
the quality of the code that is being delivered to
source control. Those assessments are done
before delivery, are associated with automated
build systems, and include practices such as
code reviews, unit tests, code quality scans, and
security scans.

Cloud services
The Build & Deploy pipeline in IBM Bluemix
DevOps Services
Sauce Labs

On-premises products
IBM Rational Test Workbench
IBM Rational Team Concert™
IBM Rational Functional Tester
IBM Rational Performance Tester
IBM UrbanCode™ Build
IBM UrbanCode Deploy
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Overall Architecture – #6 Artifact management

Artifact management
Binary files and other output from the build are
sent to and managed in a build artifact repository.

Cloud services
IBM Bluemix DevOps Services

On-premises products
IBM Rational Asset Manager
IBM UrbanCode Deploy

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Overall Architecture – #7 Release management

Release management
The release is scheduled. The team needs tools
that support release communication and
managing, preparing, and deploying releases.

On-premises products
IBM UrbanCode Release

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Overall Architecture – #8 Deployment orchestration

Deployment orchestration
The team coordinates the manual and automated
processes that are required for the solution to
operate effectively. The team must strive towards
continuous delivery with zero downtime. A/B
deployments can help to gauge the effectiveness
of new changes.

Cloud services
The Delivery Pipeline service on Bluemix
IBM Active Deploy
IBM Globalization Pipeline

On-premises products
IBM Cloud Orchestrator
IBM UrbanCode Deploy

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Overall Architecture – #9-11 Application, Runtimes, Security
Security
The team must ensure that all aspects of the
application and its supporting infrastructure are
secured.

Cloud services
IBM Access Trail
IBM Application Security on Cloud
IBM Single Sign On

Application
The team must understand the application and
the options for the application’s runtime
environment, security, management, and release
requirements.

Runtime and containers

Depending on the application requirements, some
or all of the application stack must be considered,
including middleware, the operating system, and
virtual machines.

Cloud services
Bluemix runtimes (Node.js, Java, Liberty, & more)
IBM Auto-Scaling for Bluemix
IBM Containers
OpenStack virtual machines 18
Overall Architecture – #12 Monitoring and metrics & #13 Alerts

Monitoring and metrics

The team plans, configures, monitors, defines
criteria, and reports on application availability and
performance. Predictive analytics can indicate
problems before they occur.

Cloud services
IBM Alert Notification
IBM Bluemix Availability Monitoring
IBM Mobile Quality Assurance
IBM Monitoring and Analytics for Bluemix
New Relic

On-premises products
IBM Application Performance Management

Alert notifications
The right people on the team or systems are
notified when issues occur.

Cloud services
IBM Alert Notification
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Overall Architecture – #14 IT service management

IT service management
The team manages the process for responding to
operations incidents, and delivers the changes to
fix any incidents. For more information, see the
Cloud Service Management architecture.

Cloud services
Runbook Automation

On-premises products
IBM Control Desk
ServiceNow

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Overall Architecture – #15 Usage analytics

Usage analytics
The team uses analytics to learn how users
interact with the application and measure success
through metrics.

Cloud services
Google Analytics

On-premises products
IBM Digital Analytics

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Overall Architecture – #16 Application Consumers & #17 DevOps
Application consumers
When users interact with the application, they can
provide feedback on their requirements and how
the application is meeting them, which is captured
by analytics as well.

DevOps engineers
DevOps engineers manage the entire application
lifecycle while they respond to feedback and
analytics from the running application.

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Overall Architecture – #18 Transformation and connectivity
& #19 Enterprise User Directory
Transformation and connectivity
The enterprise network is protected by a firewall
and must be accessed through transformation
and connectivity services and secure messaging
services.

Cloud services
IBM API Connect
IBM Secure Gateway

Enterprise user directory

The security team uses the user directory
throughout the flow. The directory contains
information about the user accounts for the
enterprise.

On-premises products
IBM Security Directory Server

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The Ecosystem
Runtimes
Continuous Business Planning

Think
Conceptualization
Collaborative
refinement, and Development
prioritization of
Continuous capabilities Code
Steer
Learn Generation,
Customer Feedback Continuously learn enhancement,
optimization and
& Optimization based on outcomes
testing of
from experiments
features
DevOps
Culture Develop/
Operate Continuous
Foundational
valuesFeedback
and principles Test

Manage Deliver
Automated
Ongoing monitoring,
support, and recovery production and Continuous
Continuous of offerings delivery of offerings Testing
Deploy
Monitoring Run
Services, options,
and capabilities
required to run in the
Cloud

Continuous Release and Deployment

AWS DevOps: Code Pipeline
AWS CodeCommit AWS CodeDeploy AWS CodePipeline
Store Code in Private Git Repositories Automate Code Deployments Release Software using Continuous Delivery

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Key Resources
Communities Resources in Box External Pages Others
IBM DevOps Community Assets by Sales Play IBM developerWorks Bluemine

IBM Cloud community Assets by Campaigns IBM DevOps Client Success Central

IBM Competitive Project Office Analyst Research IBM Cloud DevOps Transformation

IBM Systems Middleware Event Calendar DevOps Build Automation Cop

IBM z Systems Community Subject Matter Experts DevOps Competetive Guide

DevOps Enterprise Systems Assets by Products Institute of Business Value

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