Simple Tweaks to be Relevant in a Cloud World

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1 Simple Tweaks to be Relevant in a Cloud World Rick Claus Cloud Advocate #ITDEVCONNECTIONS ITDEVCONNECTIONS.COM

2 Current state

3 Cloud Cloud Cloud Cloud Cloud Cloud Cloud It s time for The Cloud conversation Cloud Cloud Cloud Cloud Cloud Cloud Cloud Cloud

4 Progression towards the cloud Azure Migration SaaS Rehost Refactor Rearchitect Rebuild Replace On-Premises IaaS Containers PaaS/Serverless SaaS Container platform Application platform

5 Urgent capacity needs Software and hardware refresh Security threats Compliance Quickly integrate acquisitions Application innovation Datacenter contracts expiry Migration triggers Software end of support

6 Productive Hybrid Intelligent Trusted

7 Lets Review some Major Trends Mainframe & terminals The PC Terminal Emulator Software FAX Machines Client Server applications The Internet Directory Service wars Systems Storage Area Networks Distributed applications Virtualization (+server sprawl) Mobile computing BYOD? cloud

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9 How do you take these challenges and turn them into opportunities? pivot

10 What do Ops folks do today? Install server hardware Configure the network Install the OS Update, update, update and WORRY that you are not up to date Manage storage and backup Apply security policies Manage Virtual Machine Images Manage certificates Deploy applications Monitor application/os health and performance

11 Fundamental Infrastructure architecture You currently manage: Systems designed for fault tolerance Systems designed for high availability You already know: OS / Application install / optimization DNS name resolution IP subnetting Firewall Port configuration VPN networking Domain Controller architecture (Identity)

12 What s THE Problem..? I spend 80% of my time installing software across hundreds of different environments and just getting it to work Everything is so fragile that s why patching and software updates is hard things just break all the time We never have enough resources and time to do proper testing and so everything is a bit of a guess, based on worst possible case scenarios There s no time to be pro-active, we just re-act to system down situations

13 Inventory, Update and Translate your skills

14 Virtualization and OS images

15 Observations: Cloud means running at the speed of light and being able to deploy quickly. I can quickly create proof of concept for a project in half a day instead of weeks.

16 Observations: Infrastructure as Code Configuration files

17 Observations: SCALE: it s the biggest change for me and all the folks out there that are moving from an on-prem world to cloud scale. Like you said no shiny boxes with flashing lights, cable management, cooling, etc. Just run a script and hit go!

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20 Azure Region Announced Azure Region Edge Site ROUTE 50EXPRESS LOCATIONS 70,000MILES OF FIBER 130+GLOBAL EDGE NODES

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22 Observations: Security and Monitoring it s built in

23 Observations: I troubleshoot less because I don t care about monitoring or responding to hardware-level issues. That s what Azure engineers are for I experiment more often because it s easy to spin up isolated resources without having to order in hardware and I can shut it all down with no leftover hardware when I m done. Low impact on my budget. (Fast and cheap) I experiment more fearlessly because my demo environments in the Cloud are isolated from production, I can try new things and even test random scripts I find on the internet in a disposable environment I can easily rebuild if it all breaks.

24 Observations: In the past, you deploy an app, add backup and then maybe think about DR. With the cloud these concepts are already baked in whether it s IaaS/PaaS/SaaS. DR is simply part of the package. Five-ten years ago, this was an expensive add-on, with incredible complexity and cost Backup and DR are simply part of Azure.

25 Observations: Better to be a learn-it-all than a know-it-all Thinking I always had the answer made me miss out on learning experiences. In being eager to learn, I have been able to adapt quicker to address complex problems and find new passions in technology to explore.

26 Cloud Ops Advocacy August 1 st, 2018

27 The Team Anthony Bartolo David Blank-Edelman Jason Hand Jeramiah Dooley Marcelo Bellinaso Michael Bender Neil Peterson Phoummala Schmidt Rick Claus Pierre Roman Sonia Cuff Steven Murawski

28 Things we do Advocate to the product team on behalf of the community Technical guidance for IT/Ops teams to be successful on Azure Established members of our target communities

29 Takeaways Be the expert at bringing scalability, resilience, agility and innovation to your apps and services Shift from being a project constraint to an enabler Work on interesting, strategic, valued projects, not break-fix MAKE THE TIME to learn all the cool stuff We all have to embrace our inner geek after all

30 How to connect with Rick?