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DevOps Culture and Practice with OpenShift

By : Tim Beattie, Mike Hepburn, Noel O'Connor, Donal Spring, Ilaria Doria
Book Image

DevOps Culture and Practice with OpenShift

By: Tim Beattie, Mike Hepburn, Noel O'Connor, Donal Spring, Ilaria Doria

Overview of this book

DevOps Culture and Practice with OpenShift features many different real-world practices - some people-related, some process-related, some technology-related - to facilitate successful DevOps, and in turn OpenShift, adoption within your organization. It introduces many DevOps concepts and tools to connect culture and practice through a continuous loop of discovery, pivots, and delivery underpinned by a foundation of collaboration and software engineering. Containers and container-centric application lifecycle management are now an industry standard, and OpenShift has a leading position in a flourishing market of enterprise Kubernetes-based product offerings. DevOps Culture and Practice with OpenShift provides a roadmap for building empowered product teams within your organization. This guide brings together lean, agile, design thinking, DevOps, culture, facilitation, and hands-on technical enablement all in one book. Through a combination of real-world stories, a practical case study, facilitation guides, and technical implementation details, DevOps Culture and Practice with OpenShift provides tools and techniques to build a DevOps culture within your organization on Red Hat's OpenShift Container Platform.
Table of Contents (30 chapters)
Free Chapter
2
Section 1: Practices Make Perfect
6
Section 2: Establishing the Foundation
11
Section 3: Discover It
15
Section 4: Prioritize It
17
Section 5: Deliver It
20
Section 6: Build It, Run It, Own It
24
Section 7: Improve It, Sustain It
27
Index
Appendix B – Additional Learning Resources

Why Is It Important?

Culture refers to shared customs or behaviors among members of a group of people. Open culture refers to the custom of defaulting to open principles of transparency, collaboration, community, inclusivity, and adaptability. Studies have shown that high-performing teams need psychological safety, and open culture reinforces the behavior patterns that allow for this.

What do we mean by psychological safety? William Kahn introduced this term in 1990,1 explaining Psychological Safety was experienced as feeling able to show and employ one's self without fear of negative consequences to self-image, status, or career. Dr Amy Edmondson provided further explanation in her 1999 paper,2 where she stated, Psychological safety is a belief that one will not be punished or humiliated for speaking up with ideas, questions, concerns, or mistakes. This was taken from her 1999 paper that got picked up by the Google Project Aristotle in 2013. That Google study found that...