Kubernetes, You Rainbow-Infused Space Unicorn: What Leslie Knope Can Teach Us About DevOps
A presentation at DevOpsDays PDX 2021 by Matt Stratton
KUBERNETES, YOU RAINBOW-INFUSED SPACE UNICORN What Leslie Knope Can Teach Us About DevOps
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➤ DevOps ➤ It’s is ten years old still kind of new ➤ It’s not about where we have been but where we are going @mattstratton
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➤ You have problems others don’t ➤ Every snowflake has six sides ➤ Build on the shoulders of giants @mattstratton
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➤ We all want to be awesome ➤ Nobody wants to do bad work ➤ Many people haven’t had the chance to do good work for a long time @mattstratton
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➤ Don’t try to do this alone ➤ Community ➤ Also, is key waffles @mattstratton
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➤ Blah blah blah regulatory ➤ Blah blah blah compliance ➤ Most people yelling about both of those things don’t actually know what either mean. Get educated. @mattstratton
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➤ Find your allies ➤ If someone is an obstruction, sometimes you can go around them ➤ Perceptions with results @mattstratton can and will evolve
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➤ Empathy is a devops thing right? ➤ People mad about change are mad for a reason ➤ Figure out why they’re actually mad, and you’ll get further @mattstratton
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➤ Compromise ➤ But is helpful some things are not negotiable ➤ CCRBs are salad bars @mattstratton
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➤ Change doesn’t happen overnight ➤ You’ll have to make the same arguments again and again ➤ Perseverance it is annoying. @mattstratton pays off. Even though
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Leslie Knope inspired us all on the television show, “Parks and Recreation” to be better people and to care about our communities. Under the surface, Leslie was actually providing great insight into what DevOps is all about?
Leslie’s wisdom isn’t limited to the wonder of waffles and building better parks. In this Ignite, I will offer up some lessons that apply to the practice of building and operating software, as well as effecting change in your company. DevOps is about friends, waffles, and work. Or waffles, friends, and work. But work always comes third.
