Why is this important?
- Does ITIL make sense in an era of continuous delivery and integration?
- Will the volume of applications and sites overwhelm the management methodology?
- Distributed IT is not well versed in ITIL
- Does DevOps include formal review? Shouldn’t Tier 0 sites and apps get reviewed for changes?
Survey results
- Almost all respondents have a formal Change process and board
- Divided on if PaaS/SaaS need formal change reviews
- Some said that changes are only managed for major changes
- Most respondents not mature yet with DevOps practices
- Some groups doing agile development, but not all
Harvard working on trying to reinvent ITIL in the cloud environment – since it’s all software now, release management practices are more appropriate than change management.
Would be good to have changes (even pre-approved ones) logged in ServiceNow so incidents could be correlated with changes.
In new cloud deployments people aren’t patching, but blowing machines away and deploying new ones. How does change process handle that?
Notre Dame trying to eliminate human access to the cloud console for production systems
Nobody in the room is doing continuous deployments to ERP systems
Cornell – with self-healing infrastructure they may not even know there’s an outage.
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