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SAFe® for DevOps Practitioners

By : Robert Wen
Book Image

SAFe® for DevOps Practitioners

By: Robert Wen

Overview of this book

Product development and release faces overlapping challenges due to the combined pressure of delivering high-quality products in shorter time-to-market cycles, along with maintaining proper operation and ensuring security in a complex high-tech environment. This calls for new ways of overcoming these challenges from design to development, to release, and beyond. SAFe® for DevOps Practitioners helps you use a DevOps approach with the Scaled Agile Framework and details how value streams help you resolve these challenges using examples and use cases. The book begins by explaining how the CALMR approach makes DevOps effective in resolving product development roadblocks. Next, you’ll learn to apply value stream management to establish a value stream that enables product development flow, measure its effectiveness through appropriate feedback loops, and find ways of improving it. Finally, you’ll get to grips with implementing a continuous delivery pipeline that optimizes the value stream through four phases during release on demand. This book complements the latest SAFe DevOps courses, and you’ll find it useful while studying for the SAFe DevOps Practitioner (SDP) certification. By the end of this DevOps book, you’ll have gained a clear understanding of how to achieve continuous execution and release on demand using DevOps and SAFe.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Free Chapter
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Part 1 Approach – A Look at DevOps and SAFe® through CALMR
8
Part 2:Implement – Moving Toward Value Streams
12
Part 3:Optimize – Enabling a Continuous Delivery Pipeline

Continuous Integration of Solution Development

After PI planning, the teams on the ART are set to work. They’ll look at the outputs of Continuous Exploration and the features selected for the PI and carry them to the next stage of the Continuous Delivery Pipeline, Continuous Integration (CI).

In this chapter, we will discover the following activities in the CI stage of the Continuous Delivery Pipeline:

  • Developing the solution
  • Building the solution package
  • Performing end-to-end testing
  • Moving the packages to a staging environment

We will also discover that the processes described in the Continuous Delivery Pipeline will meet up with automation in a CI/Continuous Deployment (CD) pipeline in the CI stage.

Let’s join the ART now as they develop a solution as defined by the features created during Continuous Exploration.