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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)
1
Section 1: Principles of DevOps and Agile
5
Section 2: Developing and Building a Successful DevOps Culture
8
Section 3: Driving Change and Maturing Your Processes
12
Section 4: Implementing and Deploying DevOps Tools

How does tooling help the adoption of DevOps?

DevOps uses its relationship to Agile development and then looks to create a culture that fosters collaboration and value streams. This is achieved by combining trusted principles and practices such as Lean, Theory of Constraints, and the Toyota Production System with Agile development.

In order to achieve this, DevOps requires an organization to adopt cultural changes within teams and adopt technical principles such as automation, version control, and continuous integration and delivery. In a similar way to the manufacturing industry, the integration of the right tools is fundamental to fully realize the benefits of the technical practices within DevOps.

A word of caution, though: DevOps is not just about using tools – it's about the combination of everything we have learned so far and interaction with tools that properly realizes the benefits of DevOps.

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