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DevOps Adoption Strategies: Principles, Processes, Tools, and Trends

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DevOps Adoption Strategies: Principles, Processes, Tools, and Trends

Overview of this book

DevOps is a set of best practices enabling operations and development teams to work together to produce higher-quality work and, among other things, quicker releases. This book helps you to understand the fundamentals needed to get started with DevOps, and prepares you to start deploying technical tools confidently. You will start by learning the key steps for implementing successful DevOps transformations. The book will help you to understand how aspects of culture, people, and process are all connected, and that without any one of these elements DevOps is unlikely to be successful. As you make progress, you will discover how to measure and quantify the success of DevOps in your organization, along with exploring the pros and cons of the main tooling involved in DevOps. In the concluding chapters, you will learn about the latest trends in DevOps and find out how the tooling changes when you work with these specialties. By the end of this DevOps book, you will have gained a clear understanding of the connection between culture, people, and processes within DevOps, and learned why all three are critically important.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
1
Section 1: Principles of DevOps and Agile
5
Section 2: Developing and Building a Successful DevOps Culture
8
Section 3: Driving Change and Maturing Your Processes
12
Section 4: Implementing and Deploying DevOps Tools

Chapter 9: Understanding the Technical Stack for DevOps

Adding tooling to your DevOps investments is key to making sure your adoption goes from good to great. There are many DevOps tools on the market today. Understanding what toolsets to implement for today and for tomorrow can be challenging. In this chapter, we look at the pros and cons of the main tooling involved in DevOps.

By the end of this chapter, you can expect to gain an understanding of the different families of DevOps tools as well as understanding how tooling helps in DevOps. You will also understand the benefits and obstacles of DevOps tooling.

In this chapter, we're going to cover the following main topics:

  • What are the families of DevOps tools?
  • How does tooling help the adoption of DevOps?
  • Understanding the benefits of DevOps tooling
  • Understanding the obstacles of DevOps tooling