How We Built a DevOps Dojo to Upskill Our Organization in Terraform

Learn how one company built a DevOps Dojo to implement Terraform and bring deployment times down from 6 weeks to 1 hour.

DevOps transformations are not as easy as they sound. There are many blockers along the way, from political, technical, and culture to name a few. This makes it challenging to deliver projects like infrastructure as code.

A dojo is a Japanese word for a hall or space for immersive learning or meditation. The term has traditionally been used in the field of martial arts, but it has been increasingly applied in modern software development organisations to build new or improve development automation, quality engineering, delivery, Lean, Agile, and DevOps muscles.

DevOps Dojos focus on a team goal or capability, cultivating cultural change and the new practices and technologies needed to achieve that goal or capability. Engineers join experts (coaches and masters) in a dedicated workspace to iteratively work through and improve product planning, development, automation, and delivery. Teams are empowered to take responsibility for quality while driving towards better, faster, and higher quality products.

»What You'll Learn

In this talk Brad McCoy will show how they solved these challenges by building a DevOps Dojo to implement Terraform into their organization to bring deployment times down from 6 weeks to 1 hour and uplifted the security of their infrastructure. He will show you how you can build your own Dojo in your organization.