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

By : Paul Swartout
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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)

Encouraging and embracing collaboration

As you set out on your journey to adopt CD and DevOps, you will no doubt be working with the assumption that everyone involved wants to play ball and collaborate.

A large part of the business actively contributed to the elephant exposure exercise to capture and highlight the shortcomings of the incumbent business processes and ways of working, and did so in a very collaborative way. Surely, they would want to continue in this vein?

At first, this might be trueassuming there has not been an aforementioned delay; however, as time goes on, people will start to fall back into their natural siloed positions. This is especially true if there is a lull in the CD and DevOps adoption activityyou might be busy building/implementing technical tools or applying focus to certain areas of an existing process that are most painful. Either...