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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
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Part 2:Implement – Moving Toward Value Streams
12
Part 3:Optimize – Enabling a Continuous Delivery Pipeline

Continuous Deployment to Production

As we continue our journey through the Continuous Delivery Pipeline, we have designed features to test a benefit hypothesis during Continuous Exploration. Implementation of these features happened during Continuous Integration where we created stories, developed changes and tests, and put our changes through the build and test process. Ultimately, our change is placed in a staging environment.

With Continuous Deployment, we complete the journey of the change to the production environment. However, the activities don’t end with the deployment to production.

In this chapter, we will take a look at the practices that enable the following actions in Continuous Deployment:

  • Deploying a change to production
  • Verifying proper operation of changes in the production environment
  • Monitoring the production environment
  • Responding to and recovering from production failures

It’s important to remember that we separate...