DevOps and APIs: Great Alone, Better Together

Great Alone, Better Together
Jake Morgan – Solutions Consulting - MuleSoft
DevOps and APIs

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Agenda
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• Digital Pressures
• New Approach
• Center 4 Enablement (C4E)
• C4E + DevOps
• DevOps

IoT
Mobile
Big
Data & Analytics
Growth in digital technologies widen the IT delivery gap
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Demands on IT
Time
Cloud and SaaS
IT delivery
capacityToday
Delivery
gap
Deliverygap

A common project-based approach
Web app API
Aggregated
customer data
Order status Order history
On time and within budget
Limited opportunity for reuse
Tight coupling = brittleness
Difficult to govern
Meets business requirements?
10 Weeks by Central IT

Integration project
6 months later…
Aggregated
customer data
Order status Order history
mobile APIMobile API
Aggregated
customer data
Order historyOrder status
road to hell
Web app APIWeb app API
10 Weeks by Central IT
16 weeks by Outside Resources

Modern API: the core enabler of a new operating
model
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• Discoverable and accessible
through self-service
• Productized and designed for
ease of consumption
• Easily managed for security,
scalability, and performance

Modern APIs Have
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3 Parts
– Design
• Well defined
• Easy to Understand and Use
• Consistent and well documented
– Implementation
• Technology stack that meets business requirements AND company skills
• Security
– Management
• Policies
– Rate, Throttling, OAuth, SAML, etc
• Metrics
– Who, What, Where, and How Often
• Security

APIs Are Found To Be
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• Everywhere
– Legacy Modernization to Microservices to IoT
• Reusable Artifacts
– HTTP(S) + JSON, XML, Binary
• Addressing IT Delivery Gap
– Increases % of resources to Innovation

The API-led connectivity approach
System
APIs
Process
APIs
Experience
APIs
Customers
Web app APIMobile API
Orders
Salesforce
customers
SAP
customers
Shipment
status
Toll
shipments
UPS
shipments
Order
status
Order
history
10 weeks by Central IT3 weeks by Outside Resources

Reusable assets
and Enablement
A new way of working to close the delivery gap
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Demands on IT
Time
Self-service
and
innovation
New IT
operating
model
IT delivery
capacity
Today

C4E operating model emphasizes consumption
Production
Reusable
assets
Central IT / LoB IT
Consumption
Feedback and
usage metrics
LoB IT, developers
Discoverable
Self-service

Center 4 Enablement
Why and What

Why - Center for Enablement (C4E)
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• Drive Reusability Throughout the Enterprise
– APIs via API-led connectivity
– Patterns
– Artifacts
• Minimize the IT Delivery Gap via
– People
– Process
– Technology

C4E: Enabling Standard, Reusable Integration Assets
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Center for
enablement
(C4E)
• C4E measured on asset consumption and
organizational capability
• C4E ensures that assets are
– Consumable
– Consumed broadly
– Fully leveraged
Central
IT
LoBInnovation
teams

Center 4 Enablement
Roles and Responsibilities

C4E - People
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Roles – Core Team
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• API Architect
• Enterprise Architect
• Solution Architect
• SMEs/ICs/Developers/QA/Performance
• DevOps Engineer
• Operations Engineer
• Security Analyst
• Training Coordinator
Sponsor(s)/Lead

Why - Center for Enablement (C4E)
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• Drive Reusability Throughout the Enterprise
– APIs via API-led connectivity
– Patterns
– Artifacts
• Minimize the IT Delivery Gap via
– People
– Process
– Technology

Why - DevOps
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• Faster time to market
• Lower failure rate of new releases
• Shortened lead time between fixes
• Faster mean time to recovery

Bigger Picture
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• API Architect
• Enterprise Architect
• Solution Architect
• SME/IC
• DevOps Engineer
• Ops Engineer
• Security Analyst
Sponsor
CoreTeam
Center 4 Enablement
Think Tanks
Community 4 Enablement
• Knowledge Base
• Blogs, Videos
• What, Why, How
Think Tanks

Think Tanks
• Meetups (meetings, forums, roundtables) within the company to
focus on strategic topics relevant to a wide audience within the
organization.
• Opportunity for different groups within the company to talk about
their experiences and get feedback from others. It’s a forum
intended to be highly collaborative and open to new ideas and
approaches.
• MuleSoft participates, but ideally doesn’t lead. We are there to
facilitate the conversation, bring MuleSoft’s PPOV to the
conversation, and if needed educate about the Anypoint Platform.

DevOps is a practice: People. Process. Technology
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• You need technology that:
– helps remove waste and inefficiency
– integrates into your existing CI setup
– generates meaningful reports
• Technology supports a process  the
automation pipeline
– E.g. Jenkins, TeamCity, Bamboo, Cloudbees
• Your team needs the right culture
– E.g. embracing Agile, TDD, etc.
– E.g. robust safety net to enable incremental release
– E.g. Security + DevOps = SecDevOps
Increases speed to market
(& upgrades/ internal usage, etc.)
Enables the production of
high quality products
Serves as a competitive advantage for your
company
Reduces cost of development

Why Not Add
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• Issue and Project Tracking
– JIRA, Bugzilla, TFS, FogBugz, etc
• ITSM (Incident, Problem, Change)
– Remedy, ServiceNow, Zendesk, etc
• Performance Testing
– JMeter, Loadrunner, etc

DevOps and Anypoint Platform (A common scenario)
JUnit / MUnit
Build Automation
Describe how a Mule
application is assembled
- Connector configs
- DB configurations
- Test configurations
Automate that build
process every time a
change is made to the
app
Test Automation
Visually compose tests
while or BEFORE you
code (Test Driven
Development; TDD)
Test with mocked data,
not active connections
Validate unit or
application functionality
Version Control
Reliably download(pull),
change & commit code
Get instant visibility into
incompatible changes
Enables parallel team
development
Deployment
Automation
Describe how a Mule
application is deployed
- Scheduling
- Environments config
- Test/success criteria
Automate that deployment
across teams, projects and
environments

Additional Resources
Webinars
• Unsung heroes of digital transformation: An Architect’s role in the new IT operating
model, with Siemens
• DevOps and the API Lifecycle on Anypoint Platform [Part 1 and Part 2]
Whitepaper
• APIs and DevOps: Great alone, better together
Coming Soon
• Blogs, How-Tos, Additional Demos
• Static Analysis, Orchestration Templates

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