The concept of "modern" in government IT involves managing and improving inherited legacy systems, not just using the latest serverless technology.
The Ministry of Justice manages over 7,000 services across on-premise servers, virtual machines, and Kubernetes clusters, prioritizing stability and security.
A strategy to modernize legacy systems involves a lofty goal of cloud migration which drives incremental improvements like automation and documentation across three core platforms.
Centralized platform teams provide core tools and infrastructure, allowing individual service teams the autonomy to own and configure their applications effectively.
Simply building a superior technical platform is not enough; you must proactively market it to product owners and budget holders to secure adoption.
A centralized platform allows a single improvement, like a security patch or feature upgrade, to benefit all hosted services simultaneously, increasing efficiency.
True DevOps is a culture of empathy and knowledge sharing between developers and infrastructure engineers, which requires deliberate investment in cross-training.
The Ministry of Justice operates in the open, with public code on GitHub, strategy blog posts, and open roles for those interested in their work.
The speaker answers audience questions about the scope of DevOps, the empathetic culture towards legacy systems, career advice for women, and how the organization adapts to external changes.
ROSEN Technology and Research Center GmbH
Lingen (Ems), Germany
35:06Nevelina Aleksandrova
58:40Christian Strack
26:16Graziano Casto
34:46Bruno Amaro Almeida
40:40Den Prysukhin
44:31Martin Beránek
50:23Andrew Holway
50:06Jens Happe
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