Summary
In this chapter, you learned what DevOps is (and what it is not) and its relationship with Agile. Moving to a DevOps culture helps you break down conflicting targets for developers on one side and operators on the other. This empowers them to work together on continuously delivering value to your end users, organizing their work in a single backlog, and working off a single board, while respecting the differences in their ways of working. Organizing developers and operators in product-oriented teams is the next important step in creating like-minded, goal-oriented teams.
Moving to DevOps can bring many benefits and you now know how these can be measured so that you can continuously keep improving. Next, you learned about the DevOps habits and practices that many successful DevOps teams exhibit. Mastering these yourself and with your team will enable you to go through a DevOps evaluation. All this helps continuously deliver value to your users.
In the next chapter, we will discuss Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) and how it complements DevOps for managing the reliability and scalability of your application.