GitOps for the people

What if your product owners could approve and trigger deployments just by moving a Jira ticket? This talk shows you how.

#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.