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Continuous Delivery and DevOps ??? A Quickstart Guide - Third Edition

By : Paul Swartout
Book Image

Continuous Delivery and DevOps ??? A Quickstart Guide - Third Edition

By: Paul Swartout

Overview of this book

Over the past few years, Continuous Delivery (CD) and DevOps have been in the spotlight in tech media, at conferences, and in boardrooms alike. Many articles and books have been written covering the technical aspects of CD and DevOps, yet the vast majority of the industry doesn’t fully understand what they actually are and how, if adopted correctly they can help organizations drastically change the way they deliver value. This book will help you figure out how CD and DevOps can help you to optimize, streamline, and improve the way you work to consistently deliver quality software. In this edition, you’ll be introduced to modern tools, techniques, and examples to help you understand what the adoption of CD and DevOps entails. It provides clear and concise insights in to what CD and DevOps are all about, how to go about both preparing for and adopting them, and what quantifiable value they bring. You will be guided through the various stages of adoption, the impact they will have on your business and those working within it, how to overcome common problems, and what to do once CD and DevOps have become truly embedded. Included within this book are some real-world examples, tricks, and tips that will help ease the adoption process and allow you to fully utilize the power of CD and DevOps
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

All roads lead to culture

There are many people in the tech industrysome very influentialwho believe that the adoption of CD and/or DevOps simply amounts to implementing some technical tools and then making slight tweaks to existing heavyweight processes to potentially allow software to be released every few weeks/months.

Worse still, some see this as a bona fide reason to set up a new DevOps team inside the existing organization thatall things consideredspend their time building and implementing tools and processes that make little or no difference to successful delivery of quality software.

If you believe these views to be correct, then you are simply wrong at best and delusional at worst. Just to reiterate, CD and DevOps areput very simplyagile ways of working. The DevOps tools are just thattools. When we say ways of...