DevOps Community of Practice
Operating rapidly changing resilient systems at scale
The DevOps Community of Practice (CoP) provides information technology and development staff and leadership throughout government the opportunity to share lessons learned, successes, benefits, and know how related to DevOps.
Government agencies are investing in cloud capabilities and are seeking to work more iteratively, improving their ability to support the public through their digital services. The DevOps CoP will allow agencies to share their innovations and successes, reducing the “cost of learning and innovating” across government.
DevOps is the practice of operations and development staff participating together in the entire service lifecycle operate rapidly changing resilient systems at scale.
Upcoming Meetings
Past Meetings
Recurring DevOps Tech Syncs
- We'll host recurring Tech Syncs on the first and third Tuesday of every month. These events will allow technologists in government an opportunity to hear from vendors in an open and transparent environment. Details here!
Join
Please join us on the DevOps public slack channel (#devops-public). You can join here: https://chat.18f.gov/
We also have two listservs available, one for Federal Employees, and one for all individuals:
- To join our federal government employee only Listserv, send an email from your official government email to: devops-today-subscribe-request@listserv.gsa.gov
- To join our public Listserv, perfect for federal employees, contractors, vendors, and academia to participate in the conversation, send an email to: devops-public-subscribe-request@listserv.gsa.gov
What We Do
The DevOps CoP will meet on the fourth Tuesday of each month for 30 minutes. In each meeting, a presenter will have the opportunity to share experiences for 15 minutes, followed by a 15 minute Q&A session.
We work towards the following:
This CoP allows technical staff and leadership from across government to share their experiences and lessons learned implementing DevOps and agile practices, as well as their efforts to migrate data and services to the cloud.
We aim to help reduce the learning curve associated with individual agencies, bureaus, and offices adopting cloud capabilities and DevOps practices. The DevOps CoP will allow agencies to learn from one another, sharing technical know-how. We also promote the adoption of DevOps, knowing that DevOps techniques and technologies can not only save time and reduce costs, but also be a vehicle for innovation. As the U.S. government procures cloud capabilities, there is an opportunity to reduce cost, improve performance, and improve the speed to which data and digital services are provided to the public. An opportunity also exists to improve the speed at which software can be delivered to users.
Who We Are
Community Co-Manager Brian Fox is currently a strategist with 18F. Prior to working as a member of the 18F Strategy team, he led systems development at USGS’s National Geospatial Technical Operations Center (NGTOC) where he oversaw development activity in support of The National Map. Brian has also supported the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency in a variety of roles, including joint military assignments in the United States and overseas.
Community Co-Manager Ken Kato is a Presidential Innovation Fellow (PIF). He is an entrepreneur, platform/cloud architect, change agent, and innovator; with a wide range of experience across highly regulated industries from finance, to healthcare, to defense. Most recently as a founding member of Kessel Run, Ken disrupted USAF’s technology. Working alongside industry innovators Pivotal to provide a cloud platform and help begin their cloud native journey. More on Ken here.
Community Conduct When participating in this Community, please respect your peers, use plain language, be patient, practice constructive criticism, and stay organized.