One day Mickey was at the coffee shop when he saw Minnie on the street
Mickey – Hey Minnie
Minnie – Hi Mickey, How are you?
Mickey – I am good, what are you doing here?
Minnie – I came to get some books on DevOps, you see I keep on hearing this word a lot and now I need to understand in real terms what exactly is DevOps
Mickey – Okay, Do you want to hear a real interesting story of DevOps
Minnie – Wow, Yes, Please tell me
Mickey – Let’s go to the coffee shop then
Minnie – Sure, Let’s go
(Mickey starts the Story)
Mickey – Once upon a time there was Tom and Jerry
Minnie – I know them
Mickey – Wait! The story has just begun. In our story, Tom is a boy and Jerry is a girl
Tom and Jerry worked in a company. Tom was a developer and Jerry was a System Admin in the Operations team
Minnie – So Tom was Dev and Jerry was Ops
Mickey – Yes
So Tom (dev) writes code and Jerry (ops) is responsible to deploy code into production and maintain servers, configuration, etc
Minnie – I am getting this
Mickey – Tom & Jerry have separate departments, separate cubicles and they do not talk to each other often
Minnie – That’s True
Mickey – So they have very little contact and often do not know what is happening in each other’s life or work
Now whenever there was a deployment, there were issues like the code did not work on prod env or the env configuration was not as per the code, etc. etc.
Minnie – I see that every time there is a deployment
Mickey – With this there were a lot of trust issues between Tom and Jerry
Tom always said that he tested and the code works in Dev environment and Jerry said that the configuration of your env is different from production and many such things
Minnie – I can completely relate to this
Mickey – One day Tom saw Jerry in the company’s food court. He decided to approach and talk to her
Minnie – A turning point in the story!
Mickey – Tom offered coffee to Jerry to which Jerry hesitantly agreed
Minnie – huh! Attitude
Mickey – Slowly and gradually they started to talk and open up
Minnie – Now this is getting exciting
Mickey – While talking Jerry just mentioned that last production deployment failed due to some values in the configuration file that was as per dev env and stressed that it took her entire night to figure out and fix that
To this, Tom said, hey you could have called me, it was a few min job for me
Minnie – Really
Mickey – Yes, and similarly they talked on many such instances and issues in the past that could have easily resolved, if they collaborated in a better way
Minnie – Yes, I know that happens everywhere, even in personal life, You need to sit and talk and discuss calmly and resolve issues
Mickey – Can we come back to Tom and Jerry
Minnie – Yes!
Mickey – So after their long discussion Tom and Jerry decided to work together and collaborate with each other, share knowledge and responsibilities
Minnie – Nice twist in the story
Mickey – Yes, they became friends and met every day in the office food court and discussed work and issues. They started talking often and build very good communication
Minnie – Great
Mickey – They started to meet out of the office and spent a lot of time with each other
Minnie – A new beginning
Mickey – One day Tom said they could keep a separate configuration file for every environment and can save a lot of time and unnecessary issues. Jerry agreed happily
Another day Jerry suggested having the Dev env mimic Production configuration, which could help them to catch all possible deployment issues much earlier and Jerry could do that in minutes. To this Tom agreed happily
Minnie – I know where this is going
Mickey – Climax is yet to come. Wait and listen
Minnie – Okay, now I will keep quiet till the end
Mickey – So the friendship kept growing and very soon most of the Dev(coding) and Ops(deployment) issues became very less, The deployments were faster and efficient
Tom and Jerry started spending a lot of time together, discussing work, issues and thinking about more and better ways to make the software development and delivery process better, efficient and faster
One day over coffee, Tom suggested automating the testing of the code that will save a lot of time. Jerry agreed and suggested to have automated deployment after automation testing is a Pass
They then searched and found the right tools to automated the testing and deployment processes
Then they thought of processes and tools to automate other workflows and monitoring processes
This collaboration continued and Tom (Dev) and Jerry (Ops) kept working together and this resulted in the most efficient process of Software Delivery
Minnie – WOW
Mickey – So this is DevOps
Efficient collaboration between Dev and Ops to improve the quality, process, speed, accuracy, monitoring, and feedback process of software delivery
It is a process, not a tool or technology
It is a process of collaboration, communication, working together, automating and improving the processes in the life cycle of the Delivery Process
Minnie – I can see a Tom and Jerry in every organization
Mickey – Yes, This story is inspired by true lives and real events
Minnie – Everyone needs to know this story. I will share this with All
Mickey – Please do
Minnie – I will never forget this. You are my best friend Mickey and will always be
Mickey – I am always here for you 🙂
