Tech Infrastructure

Support project for other projects directly tied to the mission of OpenUp

Objectives

• Ensure OpenUp is in a position to use technology that enables a project to succeed or be more effective than it would have been otherwise

  • We have access to people with the right skills

  • We are aware of best practises for specific needs

  • We are aware of appropriate tools for specific needs

• Ensure we maintain tools that people rely on, or find them a home where they will be sustained

Tech Infrastructure vs Devops

DevOps brings the deployment and management of systems closer to the software development.

Spending on Tech Infrastructure should be minimised - all expenditure that can be allocated to a particular project should be done as part of that project. Tech Infrastructure should only be doing the work that enables technology work to be done effectively on specific projects.

The role Tech Infrastructure is to do the work that can not be directly tied to a project, for example

• Replacing a DBMS that hosts databases for many projects

• Exploring a general strategy or tool for how we might do things

• Documenting standard operations

Related work that would fall under the project might be

• Creating a database

• Configuring an application on a server

• Setting up load-balancing for a particular application