28 DevOps and Continuous Delivery Reference Architectures

by Derek Weeks, vice president and DevOps advocate at Sonatype

People want to get going with DevOps or Continuous Delivery, but need a place to start.  Others are already on their way, but need some validation of their choices.

A few months ago, I published the first volume of DevOps and Continuous Delivery reference architectures which has now been viewed over 50,000 times on SlideShare (it’s free to download…no registration required).  Three things helped people in the deck: (1) the reference architectures, (2) links to the sources for each architecture attached to each slide, and (3) no marketing fluff.

Here is Volume 1: http://www.slideshare.net/SonatypeCorp/nexus-and-continuous-delivery

To continue to help people on their DevOps and Continuous Delivery journeys, I’ve now compiled Volume 2 of the reference architectures.  You can view the deck on SlideShare, download it (again…no registration required), and share it with others.  Have a look and let me know what you think.

Here is Volume 2: http://www.slideshare.net/SonatypeCorp/devops-and-continuous-delivery-reference-architectures 

Earlier this month, I moderated a discussion with Dave Farley, co-author of seminal book Continuous Delivery, and Curtis Yanko and Brian Dawson.  All three shared their views as experienced practitioners on why these reference architectures are resonating with the CD / DevOps community. Check it out when you get a minute: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=deQ_EcMXh7o

As I did with Volume 1, if you have a reference architecture that you would like to share, I would be happy to add it into Volume 2 with full attribution to you.  We have added 14 with the support of the DevOps community.  Just ping me in the comments section or reach out to me @weekstweets.

In early 2015, Derek Weeks led the largest and most comprehensive analysis of software supply chain practices to date across 106,000 development organizations (www.sonatype.com/speedbumps). Derek is also a co-author of the upcoming book “The DevOps Toolkit: Building the Software Supply Chain.” As a 20+ year veteran of the software industry, he has advised leading businesses on IT performance improvement practices covering continuous delivery, business process management, systems and network operations, service management, capacity planning and storage management. Derek is passionate about changing the way people think about software supply chains and improving public safety through improved software integrity. He fervently advocates applying proven supply chain management principles into DevOps practices to improve efficiencies, reduce costs and sustain long-lasting competitive advantages. Derek Weeks currently serves as vice president and DevOps advocate at Sonatype. Follow Derek on Twitter @weekstweets, LinkedIn at www.linkedin.com/in/derekeweeks, and read his commentary at http://www.sonatype.org/nexus/author/d-weeks/.