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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)

Summary

Throughout this chapter, you learned that capturing data and measurements is important, as this gives you a clear indication of whether things are working and progressing in the way you planned and hoped for. Whether you're interested in the gains in software quality over time, reduction in bugs, performance of your software platform, or number of environmental issues in the past quarter, you need data. Lots of data. Complementing this with business-focused and real-world data will only add value and provide you with more insight into how things are going.

You are striving to encourage openness and honesty throughout the organization (see the Chapter 4, Culture and Behaviors); therefore, sharing all of the metrics and data you collect during your CD and DevOps implementation will provide a high degree of transparency. At the end of the day, every part of any business...