Rootconf Mini 2024

Cloud computing benefits organizations in many ways. The benefits are so numerous that it makes it almost impossible not to consider moving business operations to a cloud-based platform. Easier said than done, multiple organizations get trapped in the pricing model – “Pay as you go”, and this not well understood, has resulted in wastages. As per Finops surveys, the key priorities for 2024 are as follows: more than 50% reported that the biggest priority for organizations is to reduce wastage.

To control this wastage, most organizations have a set of guidelines, which generally are not followed in complex product development settings. This is where the role of DevOps can be crucial, who can ensure these guidelines get transformed into guardrails and automated flows?

This talk will present key areas where DevOps can play a key role in ensuring reduced cloud costs and also possibilities of automating the controls, without really disrupting the velocity of innovation. They will understand centrally controlled vs distributed responsibilities and how various personas in the team should work together for more accountable decisions. It will cover a strategy to create a basic audit framework to record all decisions taken by teams.

For the sake of this, all demo and examples will be shown on Microsoft Azure, with mapping to GCP and AWS. For DevOps, we will use automated pipelines on GitLab.

Agenda:

• Accountability definitions and responsibilities – Developers vs Architects vs Managers vs Product owners.
• Cost Appropriate vs over Engineered cloud deployments
• Iterated Infrastructure planning – Selecting SKU aligned with Enterprise Agreements
• Strategy to claim discounts from Cloud providers.
• Planning for resource extensibility and flexibility in designs and workflows.
• Automation to create and track teams’ behavior.

Audience: Developers, Architects, Project management, Product owners.