{"id":6469,"date":"2014-02-11T05:55:07","date_gmt":"2014-02-11T13:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/exoblog\/?p=6469"},"modified":"2023-06-05T16:46:43","modified_gmt":"2023-06-05T14:46:43","slug":"devops-dark-knight-shadows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.exoplatform.com\/blog\/devops-dark-knight-shadows\/","title":{"rendered":"Devops Dark Knight, Out of the Shadows"},"content":{"rendered":"

Approximately 10 years ago at the OSSGTP<\/a> group, I met a guy, Benjamin Mestrallet<\/a>, who had just created eXo Portal, an implementation of the first Java Portlet Specification (JSR 168<\/a>). In 2009, I joined his company, eXo, to help to improve the quality of deliveries and the productivity of teams.<\/p>\n

\"01-OSS-GTP\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Since I joined the company the product has evolved a lot. When I arrived, eXo Portal and Jboss Portal were just getting married to become GateIn<\/a> (my first contribution was helping on its first release announced at JBoss World 2009<\/a>). On top of our former products (CMS, DMS, Forum \u2026) we built an integrated solution: eXo Platform<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\"02-Platform-Architecture\"<\/a><\/p>\n

From version 3.x to 4.x we greatly improved the user experience, the product performance and our ability to deliver more regularly, with an increasing level of quality. Recently, we took a step further, and announced our online service eXo Cloud<\/a> to complete our existing on-premise offer, which enables us to continuously deliver our platform.<\/p>\n

What you probably didn\u2019t see is how under the covers, our processes<\/b>, tools<\/b> and methods<\/b> also evolved to support all these changes.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m one of the actors of these changes and I can say that it\u2019s not an easy activity. Sometimes people may imagine you as a super-hero, called by his coworkers to solve some problems in the company, but often at the end of the day I\u2019m just this tired guy trying all day to juggle with many constraints to find the best compromise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"03-Dark-Knight\"<\/a><\/td>\n\"04-Arnaud\"<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

I would like to share with you this experience. Welcome, you are in DevOps<\/i><\/b><\/a> <\/i><\/b>land<\/i>. We are about to discuss development<\/b>, quality assurance<\/b>, and technology operations<\/b>.<\/p>\n

\"05-Devops\"<\/a><\/p>\n

When I arrived in 2009, my former coworker Dimitri Baeli<\/a> was initiating our teams to agile practices starting with SCRUM<\/i> for development teams and KANBAN<\/i> for support or transversal teams like OPs.<\/p>\n

On my side, I supported the process by setting up a software factory (forge) with all required services for our community:<\/p>\n