Kubernetes, You Rainbow-Infused Space Unicorn: What Leslie Knope Can Teach Us About DevOps

A presentation at DevOpsDays PDX 2021 in September 2021 in by Matt Stratton

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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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