Integrate
TechCon 2021 GitLab Ultimate
with Instana for pipeline visibility
Fast feedback and MTTR
Hursley Virtual Summit
23 February 2022
Laurel Dickson-Bull, IBM DevOps Product Manager
Kurt Dusek, GitLab Solution Architect
IBM DevOps
Develop and deliver secure and reliable
software as fast as possible
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IBM DevOps: Mission
Improve development and delivery operations
Reduce security and compliance risk
Deliver reliable solutions faster
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IBM + GitLab
Ultimate
Enhanced through
collaboration with IBM
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GitLab: The DevOps platform
One platform and one partner for all
your DevOps capabilities
o Project planning
o Source code management
o Continuous integration
o Infrastructure configuration
o Incident monitoring
o Application security
o And so much more...
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The four phases of DevOps
01 BYO DevOps 02 BIC DevOps 03 DIY DevOps 04 DevOps platform
Disparate set of tools Standardized toolchain Custom integration Single application
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GitLab Ultimate: A complete DevOps platform
delivered as a single application
Manage Plan Create Verify Package Secure Release Configure Monitor Protect
Single interface
Single data store
Single permission model
Single conversation
Governance and security
Team collaboration
Lifecycle analytics
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GitLab Ultimate
Available for z/OS, too
GitLab Ultimate + Instana Observability
Idea Plan Dev Build Deploy Test Release Value
Security
Full DevOps platform: Instana observes the application
• Collaboration tools for planning • Automated discovery
• Dev tools • Alerts anomalies
• Continuous integration • Isolates root cause
• Security and code testing
• Continuous deploy
• Continuous testing
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Meantime to Recovery (MTTR)
Ideas
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Development Resolve
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Instana helps with observability
from four different perspectives
Automatic backend Front-end application Infrastructure (high Platform – Kubernetes,
tracking (website or mobile fidelity metrics for host, Cloud Foundry (now
application) cpu, memory and down VMWare Tanzu), and
to jvms, nodejs VMWare ESXI
processes, etc.)
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Instana Agent – easy install
The first challenge in adopting an observability
tool is how do you deploy the solution.
Instana is built around the idea that everything
should be as automatic as possible. This includes
the installation of the Instana Agent.
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Instana Discovery
Instana will automatically discover what is on
the host configure itself, based on what it
finds. It will also alert you of issues.
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Instana Analytics
Instana is an Application Performance Management (APM)
tool at heart. The application tracing capability using
Instana “AutoTrace” found in the Analytics area of the
solution allows you to quickly identify issues.
Capture a trace of every single request, from the end user’s Immediately understand the cause of a slow running service
browser through all microservices with Instana AutoTrace
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Instana – Pipeline feedback release marker
You can observe the application performance at
deployment time using the markers for your telemetry
data at infrastructure, service, and application
perspectives
Documentation
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Demo
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IBM Dev Ops: How it fits together
Ideas
Code to release
Stories Instantiation Release to change
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Development Resolve
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Deliver the right solution the first time
IBM DevOps: Innovation
and AI-powered automation
for software development
and delivery
Join the IBM DevOps
community
Improve delivery Reduce security and Deliver reliable
operations compliance risk solutions faster
Learn more: Apply data-driven delivery, Automate testing as early as Orchestrate automatically
https://www.ibm.com/cloud/instana then automate and augment possible and get insights from across multiple delivery
https://www.ibm.com/products/gitla as much of the delivery the relationships between pipelines.
b-ultimate lifecycle as possible. activities and data.
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