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From YouTube: Keynote: What It's Like to Bring DevOps to a Software Factory in Central America - Alvin Estrada
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Keynote: What It's Like to Bring DevOps to a Software Factory in Central America - Alvin Estrada, Cloud Architect, GuateGeeks
Speakers: Alvin Estrada
In 2020, lots of companies around the world realized that most of their technology and methodologies were already obsolete. 10 years ago, that started a race inside those companies to keep alive the business while designing, building, and improving online platforms.
This opened a big necessity of the misnamed "DevOps," a being that handles the knowledge to deploy anything to the Cloud with "Dockers" (or at least that's what most of the people think it is).
In this talk, Alvin will share his experience helping a Software Factory Company to reach the goal of a DevOps Culture.
A
But
what
about
small
companies
in
Central
America?
Is
that
even
possible
in
this
context?
Was
it
already
been
done
before?
Well,
let's
take
a
look,
but
first,
let's
see
what
is
what's
Central
America
is
results
that
it
is
a
geographic
region
between
North
and
South
America,
confirmed
by
seven
countries,
Guatemala
El,
Salvador,
Honduras,
Nicaragua,
Costa,
Rica
and
Panama,
with
a
summarized
GDP
just
below
Colombia
and
with
English
level
lowest
most
of
the
countries
in
Latin
America
affecting
the
access
to
information
and
education.
A
A
But
this
digital
transformation
is
at
the
speed
of
light
as
in
2020.
In
a
matter
of
weeks,
everything
changed
companies
around
the
world
was
in
a
hurry
to
move
their
business
to
remote
and
online
first.
There
was,
of
course,
a
challenge
having
in
mind
that
most
of
those
companies
have
never
built
a
proper
e-commerce
before
the
necessity
for
engineers
and
experienced
people
increase,
local
banks
and
retailers
had
to
duplicate
their
capacity
on
online
and
mobile
platforms.
Themes
and
Technology
was
already
was,
of
course,
not
prepared
for
that.
The
necessity
for
a
digital
transformation
was
evident.
A
Sadly,
the
necessity
for
a
cool
transformation
was
not
that
evident.
Teams
inside
local
companies
had
to
learn
on
record
time
how
to
improve
performance,
Implement,
automatization,
scalability
observability
and
improve
their
English,
because,
of
course,
you
need
to
read
the
commentation
what's
due
to
videos
and
did
and
deal
with
cloud
provider
supports,
because,
of
course,
there
is
usually
no
Spanish,
L2
or
L3
support
available
as
a
remote
jobs
was
so
popular
as
strong
human
capital
flight
start
as
well,
and
it
is
not
a
secret
for
anyone
that
high
Remote
open
a
lot
of
opportunities.
A
Companies
start
to
hire
more
strong
on
this
area
and
most
of
the
experienced
Engineers
start
working
with
International
companies,
but
did
also
affect
companies.
Here.
As
now,
it's
getting
harder
to
hire
Tech
roles
as
the
market
demands
for
skill
engineers
waiting
as
Market
demands
for
a
skill.
Injury
for
skill
Engineers
is
increasing,
but
offer
is
too
low
to
satisfy
it,
and
it's
usual
to
find
new
comments
like
this.
On
post
jobs
with
those
skills
you
better
get
a
job
for
a
foreign
company
company.
A
You
can
earn
a
lot,
but
also,
but
it's
it's
also
common,
that
the
adoption
for
me
for
new
technology
usually
starts
by
someone
experiencing
experimenting
with
something
he
looked
at.
A
tech
talk
or
a
cultural
disruption
usually
starts
by
a
small
group
of
people,
and
that's
why
the
community
movement
is
so
important
here
before
2020
the
community
was
growing
with
every
meet.
There
was
a
number
of
moments
and
Community
sharing
about
AWS,
Azure,
Docker
and
Google
was
all
over
the
place,
even
the
kubernetes
meetups.
A
A
So
if
you're
looking
at
this
talk-
and
you
are
wondering
if
there
is
a
cncf
community
in
your
country-
please
take
a
look
at
community.cncf.io.
Probably
you
can
help
the
movement
or
never
start
a
chapter
in
yourself
being
part
of
the
community,
helps
you
to
know
people
and
can
be
crucial.
Part
of
your
formation,
I
will
say
big
part
of
the
cultural
and
Tech
adoption
in
Latin.
America
has
been
done
thanks
to
to
the
community
forums.
A
I
can
tell
this
because
I
was
there
giving
an
online
an
online
talk
about
devops,
with
Homer
as
main
character
at
the
community,
the
kubernetes
community
at
work
on
Guatemala,
when
one
of
this
instance
contact
me
say
that
the
company
he
was
working
just
to
start
with
a
digital
transformation
and
required
help
to
adopt
and
automate.
There
was
some
stuff
already
running
on
cloud.
The
company
has
changed
his
technology
director
just
eight
months
ago,
and
the
digital
transformation
was
online.
They
offered
me
a
position
to
help
with
the
cloud
adoption
as
a
devops
engineer.
A
The
opportunity
to
live
my
own
Phoenix
project
was
in
front
of
me
and
two
months
later,
I
was
there
about
to
know
how
we
said
to
bring
devops
to
a
server
Factory
in
Central
America.
But
honestly,
I
was
more
or
less
like
Omar
here
so
once
in
the
company,
I
was
involved
in
a
lot
of
meetings.
They
present
me
as
a
devops
I
was
going
to
help
teams
with
new
standards,
security
and
Cloud
adoption,
and
please
add
the
devops.
A
If
you
need
help,
if
you
need
help
deploying
to
the
club,
of
course,
I
had
the
support
of
the
entire
team.
Having
in
mind
that
that
I
was
in
a
new
role
just
created
because
of
a
necessity
coming
from
teams
on
my
first
month,
I
was
inviting
to
knowledge
tracker
meetings.
One
of
the
engineers
was
leaving
the
company,
so
there
was
a
needing
to
understand
his
assassination
and
application
he
was
involved.
A
I
will
never
forget
that
when
I
present
that
when
I
was
presented
and
the
team
mentioned
that
I
was
there
to
help
with
the
devil
side
option,
he
said
good
luck
with
that.
With
that,
don't
you
know,
and
it
was
evident
he
was
already
exhausted
and
looking
for
a
child
for
a
change,
as
you
may
think,
I
have
tons
of
of
other
meetings
sitting
dirt
with
devs
to
understand
its
workloads,
building,
containers
together
and
explaining
more
about
what
I
do
and
what
devops
pretends.
A
It
was
clear
that
most
of
the
knew
it
had
something
to
do
with
Automation
and
Cloud,
but
not
sure
about
what
else.
The
development
team
had
decided
to
work
for
Java
for
JavaScript
for
JavaScript,
first
and
the
main
development
language.
This
was
because
of
its
popularity
number
of
tools
and
a
good
number
of
developers
on
the
market,
the
teams
for
new
products.
What
was
designed
to
be
confirmed
by
a
school
Master,
a
software
architect,
a
team
lead
and
a
team
of
developers
and
Qaeda
analysts.
A
A
The
user
Story
start
to
be
well
defined
with
stories
with
a
set
of
atomic
features
and
well-defined
scenarios.
If
you
are
guessing
which
tools
are
we
adopting?
Basically,
our
services
are
done
with
node.js
from
an
application
will
react
with
code
scanned
by
sonar.
That's
done
with
just
Serenity
and
podman.
Together
with
the
cloud
adoption,
an
agile
methodologies,
the
software
Factory
was
refactoring.
The
QA
process
I
learned
a
lot
helping
the
team
to
implement
QA
tools
on
the
pipeline.
A
It
requires,
of
course,
a
training
for
the
QA
Engineers
to
adopt
technology,
as
most
of
them
was
manual
tester
with
a
low
or
not
technical
skills.
Deployment
into
the
cloud
are
now
done
with
kubernetes
and
Helm
charts.
Our
on-premise
deployments
on
Linux
are
now
done
with
ansible
and
podman.
Just
because
we
want
to
be
coolant.
A
The
monitoring
and
operation
is
done
using
Prometheus,
istio
and
boy
grafana,
and
integrated
Cloud
tools,
not
into
fancy.
During
the
implementation
and
Adoption
of
new
technology,
a
new
elite
team
emerge
and
start
to
help
teams
with
adoption
as
well,
some
of
them.
Some
of
them
have
never
interact
with
a
Linux
terminal.
Before
and
now
they
are,
configuring,
nginx,
deploying
containers
and
moving
around
with
almost
no
problem.
The
documentation
was
crucial,
as
they
are
now
helping
our
service
team
to
get
in
touch
with
platform
and
perform
configuration
tasks
on
production
environments.
A
We
have
also
started
with
trainings
across
the
entire
organization
to
cope
with
methodology,
adoption
explaining
the
problems
we
want
to
attend
and
why
devops
is
important.
I
made
my
talk
about
devops
with
the
Simpson
installing,
with
the
same
problem
we
had
on
his
journey
to
devops,
with
a
strong
exception
of
core
of
devops
equals
culture,
of
course,
but
with
a
great
power
comes
great
responsibility.
We
adopt
a
number
of
technology
and
create
a
number
of
con
of
ownership
calls.
A
I
cannot
share
a
lot
of
info
about
the
company,
but
this
is
something
I
can
share.
The
company
now
moved
from
10
percent
of
loads
on
Cloud,
on
2019
to
almost
80
percent
of
loads,
on
2020
time
required
to
develop
and
test
a
single
feature
move
from
two
weeks
to
a
single
day,
not
just
because
the
process
and
Tech
is
better
but
because
the
feature
definition
improved
and
them
and
teams
above
answer
a
couple
things
we
learned
things
need
to
be
done
in
the
right
way.
Small
teams
are
easier
to
transform
and
manage.
A
Digital
transformation
means
team
transformation.
Team
transformation
requires
investment,
the
transformation
must
spread
across
an
entire
organization,
and
there
is
no
such
thing
as
a
silver
bullet
and
I
also
have
a
message
for
all
my
folks
for
all
my
fault
here
that
are
still
getting
if
it's
possible
estamos
foreign.