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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

Understanding architectural and security requirements

When you're implementing anything in your organization, be that new tools or even technical processes or updates to existing tools, it is important to consider the impact this will have on the enterprise architecture and information security. These two groups are the cornerstone of IT organizations and working toward their defined goals, which will closely align with the business goals, will help you in your search for appropriate tooling.

To explore this further, it's important to understand the following:

  • Why is enterprise architecture important?
  • Why is information security important?
  • Understanding architectural requirements
  • Understanding security requirements

Let's look at these four points in more detail to get a better understanding.

Why is enterprise architecture important?

There are many benefits to enterprise architecture within an organization. The most obvious is the top...