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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

The system team

The system team is the team on the ART that is responsible for the tooling and automation of the Continuous Delivery Pipeline. They work with the other teams on the ART to help in delivering valuable solutions.

The system team may follow one of several DevOps topologies. The system team may be set up as a DevOps team with an expiration date. They will set up the Continuous Delivery Pipeline and instruct the Dev and Ops personnel on its use before disbanding. Another model for the system team may be being set up as a DevOps advocacy team.

As custodians of the automation and development process, they have deep responsibilities to the other teams on the ART. These responsibilities are described as follows.

Building infrastructure for solution development

The system team will often be responsible for setting up the pre-build, continuous integration, and continuous deployment portions of the CI/CD pipeline and integrating the technology so it’s a seamless...