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SAFe® for DevOps Practitioners

By : Robert Wen
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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

Emerging trends in DevOps

One of the themes that contributed to the success of the DevOps movement was the collaboration between two separate functions of an organization, Development and Operations, to achieve the greater goal of releasing products frequently but also allowing stability in the production environment.

As the movement grew, its success encouraged more imaginative efforts at collaboration to encourage other aspects besides increased deployment frequency and stability. Some of the reimagined efforts we will examine include the following:

  • XOps
  • The Revolution model
  • Platform engineering

Let’s begin our exploration into the potential future of DevOps.

XOps

The success of the DevOps movement has encouraged the inclusion of other parts of the organization with Development and Operations to allow for speed of other qualities in addition to development frequency and stability. Notable movements include the following:

  • DevSecOps: The...