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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

6. Open Technical Practices – Beginnings, Starting Right

So far, we have talked about the foundational culture and collaboration practices that support our discovery, options, and delivery Mobius loop. The next two chapters establish the technical practices that teams should implement to make the foundation even stronger.

Think of the Mobius loop as an engine turning from discovery through options generation and into delivery. This cycle continues by doing more delivery until we need to revisit the outcomes we've targeted. Delivery is where we take the concept and make it real. As we deliver, we will learn a lot and garner feedback from our stakeholders and our team. At some point in time, we will need to revisit the discovery side of the loop, either to adjust what we know or to realign what we deliver next.

Figure 6.1: The Mobius loop

Imagine we've done one iteration and built some new features for our product, such as a leaderboard...