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DevOps Adoption Strategies: Principles, Processes, Tools, and Trends

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DevOps Adoption Strategies: Principles, Processes, Tools, and Trends

Overview of this book

DevOps is a set of best practices enabling operations and development teams to work together to produce higher-quality work and, among other things, quicker releases. This book helps you to understand the fundamentals needed to get started with DevOps, and prepares you to start deploying technical tools confidently. You will start by learning the key steps for implementing successful DevOps transformations. The book will help you to understand how aspects of culture, people, and process are all connected, and that without any one of these elements DevOps is unlikely to be successful. As you make progress, you will discover how to measure and quantify the success of DevOps in your organization, along with exploring the pros and cons of the main tooling involved in DevOps. In the concluding chapters, you will learn about the latest trends in DevOps and find out how the tooling changes when you work with these specialties. By the end of this DevOps book, you will have gained a clear understanding of the connection between culture, people, and processes within DevOps, and learned why all three are critically important.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
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Section 1: Principles of DevOps and Agile
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Section 2: Developing and Building a Successful DevOps Culture
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Section 3: Driving Change and Maturing Your Processes
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Section 4: Implementing and Deploying DevOps Tools

What is continuous improvement and feedback?

Continuous improvement is the process of ongoing effort required to improve services, products, or processes. This process can be done in an iterative manner over a period or all at once. How this is done is dependent on the degree of change we are looking to make.

Continuous feedback has many different uses, including the ability to provide feedback to employees on their performance. You can also use continuous feedback in product development to gain valuable insights into the performance of your product. The systematic way that strengths and weaknesses of employee performance are discussed translates well to the product world and DevOps as well.

Let's now look at continuous improvement in more detail.

Building a continuous improvement culture

The concept of DevOps is primarily built around continuous everything. Lots of terminology in DevOps also includes it in the name, such as continuous integration, and continuous deployment...