Think like DevOps in a big company
On August 29, at the office of RSHB-Intech (Moscow, Profsoyuznaya 125A) the RSHB Meetup was held: Think like DevOps in a large company, organized by RSHB.tsifra with the support of JUG Ru Group. We will briefly talk about how the meetup went and what the speakers talked about, as well as provide recordings of the reports and other materials from the event.
The RSHB.tsifra team holds meetups every quarter. We try to touch on as many areas as possible in which our specialists work and where we can share our own expertise with the community: DevSecOps, Backend Dev, QA, clouds, Data Integration, Identity Management and more.
This time the central topic was DevOps: how to turn yourself into a service, force developers to think alike and roll back database migrations. We collected almost 500 registrations for the meetup, of which about 70 people were present in person at the RSHB-Intech office in Moscow, the rest watched the meetup online and asked their questions in the chat Meetups RSHB.tsira on Telegram.
The event was organized with the support of our regular partners – JUG Ru Group. The presenter was Anton Chernousov, developer advocate from Yandex Cloud, with whom we also work not for the first time. Anton hosts his own podcast about development, The art of programming, and participates in other Russian podcasts, meetups and conferences. We were glad to see him as a presenter this time too.
The meetup included three reports: one from a speaker from RSHB-Intech and two from our guests – specialists from Pochtatech and IT Enduro.
The event was opened by a speech by Vasily Kutsenko, Head of the DevOps Department (Posttech). Vasily came with a report “Secrets of successful DevOps as a Service: Experience and recommendations.”
Everyone wants to talk about development platforms, DevOps portals and new magic ships. But we need to migrate into the vastness of the big theater: deal with legacy, convert hundreds of systems to a single form. Vasily shared the results, showed metrics, dashboards, and also told how the project team moved towards the platform and how the approach they chose helped.
The second speaker was Konstantin Belkin, SRE Team Lead at RSHB-Intech. Konstantin is one of the central participants in the App.Farm platform, which we talked about earlier, including from Keycloak. Konstantin came with a report – “How to implement CI/CD for all developers in the bank. CI/CD by App.Farm”.
How to get developers to think alike? What profit does business and development get from this? Konstantin looked at how the RSHB managed to build a unified approach to application development.
A transcript of the report is available here.
The meetup was completed by Alexey Romanov, Software Architect (IT Enduro), with the report “Deploying and rolling back applications and database migrations.”
Most people use Kubernetes to deploy applications to dev and prod environments. And if something goes wrong, you can easily roll back the application using Helm. But what to do with the database? Alexey told us how to roll back database migrations, how to automate this process, and what new difficulties this brings to development.
As part of the meetup, we encouraged offline and online listeners for their curiosity and activity. Guests and spectators received prizes for the best questions, as well as for feedback about the event.
All meeting materials are already publicly available. Presentations by speakers can be download herephotos from the meetup look here. If for some reason it is inconvenient for you to watch recordings of reports on Rutube, they are additionally uploaded to VK Video and Platform:
Vasily Kutsenko – “Secrets of successful DevOps as a Service: Experience and recommendations”
VK Video | Platform
Konstantin Belkin – “How to implement CI/CD for all developers in a bank. CI/CD by App.Farm”
VK Video | Platform
Alexey Romanov – “Deploy and rollback of application and database migrations”
VK Video | Platform
Catch announcements of future meetups in our Telegram channel, group on VKand also in chat Meetups RSHB.tsira on Telegram.
Enjoy watching and have a great day!
