DevOps as an emerging university discipline
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This document discusses the proposal for a new Master's program in DevOps engineering at a Bulgarian university. It notes the changing technology landscape and need for DevOps skills in both industry and education. The proposed two-year program would take a use-case driven approach, focusing on practical skills like Linux, programming, automation tooling, containers, virtualization, and cloud computing. The first year introduces fundamental DevOps concepts and technologies. The second year emphasizes continuous integration, delivery, and infrastructure/platform as a service. The goal is to help bridge the gap between development and operations and prepare students for modern software engineering roles.
DevOps as an emerging university discipline
- 1. DevOps as an emerging university discipline Nikolay Milovanov New Bulgarian University
- 2. Driving forces • Agile - Automating the movement of code so that the value is quickly delivered to the end user – The way we developer and deliver software has changed • Before focus was on application development and delivery • Now is on service development, continuous improvement and deployment • Cloud is here, environments are not what they were
- 3. Why DevOps Source – David Linthicum slides on DevOps and cloud
- 4. That wall of confusion lead to simply not good stuff
- 5. We need a new way of thinking Source – David Linthicum slides on DevOps and cloud
- 6. There is an old and a new way Source – David Linthicum slides on DevOps and cloud
- 7. Tooling and environments are changing too
- 8. At the same time… • University and education industry is a bit stalled • There are a lot of classical educational programs with their roots in either electrical engineering or computer science • Development is well represented • Use cases for deployment, testing, continuous integration, automation tooling, cloud are “useful” stuff that is almost “entirely” missing • Ops is also almost missing – here and there are courses mostly structured around ITIL – … but is a framework defined by a kernel 20+ years ago a good way of doing Ops nowadays???
- 9. At the same time… • IT sector is an increasing % of Bulgarian GDP • There are a lot of software houses • There are well established OPS and service houses offering services across the globe – HP, IBM, Unify • Many of the devs or the ops would actually have direct benefit from a devOps university master’s program
- 10. University discipline • Bachelors is for studding core technology stuff • Masters is for adding some quality on top of what has been already learned • Masters works best if you start it with some prior working experience in your pocket • So the most suitable format looks like a master’s in DevOps engineering
- 11. How would such program should look like? • Use case driven!!! -> It is more important how do you study and not really what • Technology as technology comes and goes what stays is our way of thinking, solving problems finding solutions. • The context will be DevOps, cloud, virtualization, Linux • The tooling will be the current DevOps tooling • The use cases will be the stuff that we as engineers see nowadays in our work
- 12. Semester 1 • DevOps as an emerging university discipline • Linux and bash scripting • Data Center engineering • Python for devOps engineers (E) • Operation support systems/Business support systems (E) • Data center networking (E)
- 13. Reasoning behind the first semester • You will study how did the world changed and why the need of devOps engineers has arisen • We will define what devOps might mean, and what the devOps should do and more importantly how should they do it • We will learn to define context, stakeholders and key architectural drivers in devOps context • Will cover also some technology aspects like: – data center design (electricity, cooling, spacing, building, structural cabling etc) – Linux OS – data center networking – OSS/BSS – Some programming
- 14. Semester 2 • Continuous integration • Automation tooling and frameworks • Containers and virtualization • Infrastructure as a service or how does a cloud looks from inside (E) • Windows system administration (E) • Platform as a service (E)
- 15. Reasoning behind the second semester • This semester will be the “salt” of the program • After the base that we got we will go a bit deeper into topics like continuous integration • In parallel there will be a lot of focus on cloud and virtualization where we will touch topics as kvm, containers, IAAS, PAAS • As some electives might appear some more programming or for example an windows system administration course
- 16. Semester 3 • Continuous deployment • Ansible for devOps engineers (E) • Methodologies for software and IT project management (E) • Methodologies for IT service management (Е)
- 17. Reasoning behind the third semester • It is time not only to test but also to deploy and continuously manage our services (yea applications melt into that nowadays • Will also play a bit with some devOps tooling and will learn how to use it in context • Finally will focus on the process point of view either in service management and/or process management
- 18. Some thoughts on timing • If we start working on the program now It will happen in an year • First students will graduate in 2.5-3 years • The impact of the program to the industry will be visible in 5-10 years • So the proper feedback will come in 5+ years • Could it happen faster, well maybe but 2a from RFC 1925 • Education is not an easy stuff…. – If you get it right is extremely powerful – If you get it wrong impact on society could be devastating
- 19. Current issues • Teachers and professors – In order to take accreditation (e.g to be legible to print Bulgarian ministry of education and science diplomas in the end) up to 75 % of the lecturers have to be academic people at least with a PhD – There are ways to relax that pattern but still it is not easy to find people with the right knowledge – Those that know and have the use cases are exactly the opposite • Industry people, some even without diploma, generally busy and not really willing to investigate significant % of their time for education initiatives • Administration – It is not easy to administrate an educational program – It is a full time job for at least one person • Infrastructure – Labs and environments – For luck we have that OpenStack@NBU – It is not sufficient but is a good base
- 20. EVERYBODY WHO WANTS TO HELP IS MORE THAN WELCOME!
- 21. As a final – What is DevOps? Source wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DevOps
- 22. Why it is needed • Make stuff more agile • Put some glue in the current gaps? • Shift the mindset • Change the culture • Make the industry more sustainable • Give to people live long living perspective in IT • Do stuff in a better way • Have fun
- 23. Thanks for your time Nikolay Milovanov [email protected]
Editor's Notes
- #9: We continue to deliver mostly classical educational programs based on classics either from computer science or electrical engineering Some more focused programs exist either in network or telecom engineering People has high intentions so also a bunch of programs with “management” or “innovation” kind of wording also exists… All that is good for Bachelor’s programs but why should we do so in the Master’s one?
- #19: (2) No matter how hard you push and no matter what the priority, you can't increase the speed of light. (2a) (corollary). No matter how hard you try, you can't make a baby in much less than 9 months. Trying to speed this up *might* make it slower, but it won't make it happen any quicker.
- #22: DevOps is a culture, movement or practice that emphasizes the collaboration and communication of both software developers and other information-technology (IT) professionals while automating the process of software delivery and infrastructure changes.[It aims at establishing a culture and environment where building, testing, and releasing software can happen rapidly, frequently, and more reliably.