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approximately 16,000 students in Colorado. The staff

and educators work to ensure that all students have

the knowledge, skills, and attitudes needed for present

and future competence and success. As part of this

commitment, the district sought to create an online

computing environment that leveraged a virtual desk2ndensuring

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failure. After looking at other solutions that could take

up to 30 days to deliver, the district needed help

sooner and decided on Tegile Systems.

Tegile assessed the needs of the district quickly and

implemented a solution in the middle of the outage.

Tegile delivered the hybrid solution within days of

placing the order.

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Table of Contents

School District 27J provides educational services to

approximately 16,000 students in Colorado. The staff

and educators

work to

Introduction

. . . .ensure

. . . . . . . . .that

. . . . . .all

. . . students

. . . . . . . . . . . .have

. . . .1

the knowledge,About

skills,

and

attitudes

needed

for

present

This Book ........................................................................ 1

and future competence

and

success.

As part of this2

Icons Used in This

Book

............................................................

Beyond

the Book ........................................................................

commitment, the

district

sought to create an online2

computing Chapter

environment

leveraged

1: What Is that

DevOps?

. . . . . . . . . .a

. . virtual

. . . . . . . . . desk. . .3

top infrastructure,

ensuring

thatNeed

teachers

access

Understanding

the Business

for DevOpshad

......................

3

to their districtRecognizing

resources

at allValue

times,

which

allowed

the Business

of DevOps

...........................

4

Enhanced

customer experience

....................................

5

them to fully support

students

both inside

and outside

Increased capacity to innovate ...................................... 5

the classroom.

Faster time to value ......................................................... 6

Seeing How DevOps Works ....................................................... 6

The district launched

itsand

virtual

desktop

infrastructure

Develop

test against

production-like

systems ..... 6

(VDI) environmentDeploy

withwith

a 100-desktop

program

repeatable, reliablepilot

processes

................. 7

Monitor

and

validate

operational

quality

.....................

with the expectation that it would later scale to 800 8

Amplify feedback loops................................................... 8

desktops. As the system went live on the first day of the

2: Looking at

DevOps

Capabilities

. . . . . . . . . . .9logschool year,Chapter

the resulting

boot

storm

from teachers

DevOps Adoption

.......................................................

ging in crashedPaths

thetobackend

of the

infrastructure ¡ª 9the

Plan ............................................................................................ 10

SAN was undersized

and basically wasn¡¯t going to work.

Develop/Test ............................................................................ 11

Collaborative

development

..........................................

12

The CIO of the school

district

scurried

for other storContinuous testing ........................................................ 13

age options that

could

quickly overcome the hardware

Deploy

.......................................................................................

13

Operate......................................................................................

14

failure. After looking

at other solutions that could take

Continuous monitoring ................................................. 14

up to 30 days to deliver,

the district needed help

Continuous customer feedback and optimization .... 14

sooner and decided on Tegile Systems.

Chapter 3: Adopting DevOps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15

Tegile assessedKnowing

the needs

of the district quickly and

Where to Begin ......................................................... 15

implemented a solution

inbusiness

the middle

of the outage.

Identifying

objectives....................................

16

Identifying

bottlenecks

in the within

delivery pipeline

Tegile delivered the

hybrid

solution

days........

of16

People in DevOps ..................................................................... 17

placing the order.

DevOps culture .............................................................. 17

DevOps team .................................................................. 19

Process in DevOps ................................................................... 19

DevOps as a business process ..................................... 19

Change management process ...................................... 20

DevOps techniques ....................................................... 21

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