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DevOps Culture and Practice with OpenShift

By : Tim Beattie, Mike Hepburn, Noel O'Connor, Donal Spring, Ilaria Doria
Book Image

DevOps Culture and Practice with OpenShift

By: Tim Beattie, Mike Hepburn, Noel O'Connor, Donal Spring, Ilaria Doria

Overview of this book

DevOps Culture and Practice with OpenShift features many different real-world practices - some people-related, some process-related, some technology-related - to facilitate successful DevOps, and in turn OpenShift, adoption within your organization. It introduces many DevOps concepts and tools to connect culture and practice through a continuous loop of discovery, pivots, and delivery underpinned by a foundation of collaboration and software engineering. Containers and container-centric application lifecycle management are now an industry standard, and OpenShift has a leading position in a flourishing market of enterprise Kubernetes-based product offerings. DevOps Culture and Practice with OpenShift provides a roadmap for building empowered product teams within your organization. This guide brings together lean, agile, design thinking, DevOps, culture, facilitation, and hands-on technical enablement all in one book. Through a combination of real-world stories, a practical case study, facilitation guides, and technical implementation details, DevOps Culture and Practice with OpenShift provides tools and techniques to build a DevOps culture within your organization on Red Hat's OpenShift Container Platform.
Table of Contents (30 chapters)
Free Chapter
2
Section 1: Practices Make Perfect
6
Section 2: Establishing the Foundation
11
Section 3: Discover It
15
Section 4: Prioritize It
17
Section 5: Deliver It
20
Section 6: Build It, Run It, Own It
24
Section 7: Improve It, Sustain It
27
Index
Appendix B – Additional Learning Resources

Stop the World

The Stop the World event or Andon Cord is another of our favorite practices that we use regularly in our engagements and is a DevOps superpower.

John Willis explained the origins of the word Andon in his ITRevolition blog post4 – in Japanese, it comes from the use of traditional lighting equipment using a fire-burning lamp made out of paper and bamboo. This idea was later translated for use in manufacturing in Japan. The Andon became used as a signal to highlight an anomaly (that is, a flashing light). This signal would be used to amplify potential defects in quality.

The Andon Cord and Psychological Safety

The first time I heard of the Andon Cord was when reading The Phoenix ProjectA Novel About IT, DevOps and Helping Your Business Win by Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, and George Spafford – if an employee on the car production line suspects a problem is happening...