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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

Key business benefits of DevOps

When it comes to DevOps transformation, buy-in from your executive leaders and senior management within your organization is fundamental. You will come up against serious challenges in your transformation without this support, and may even fail before you've really got started.

One way to ensure you have the required buy-in is by making sure that executive leaders and senior management understand what the business benefits of DevOps are. You cannot simply explain the technical or local benefits to individual teams or leaders. They will want to know why this is worth the money they will spend on implementing this new way of working and how it will help the business move faster.

In short, how can you ensure that DevOps addresses the key performance indicators (KPIs) and business goals of your organization?

Important note

When starting out with DevOps transformation, look to gain executive support early in the process; that way, you can...