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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

Defining owners and processes for tooling

For tooling to be effective, it really needs two fundamental things. The first is an owner for that tool, while the second is for processes to be defined and documented for that tool.

The owners of your tooling are responsible for defining how the tool is used, what scenarios it helps resolve, defining processes for how to use parts of the tool, and providing ownership in terms of the infrastructure and any costs behind it. You may split tool ownership between business ownership to manage the costs, infrastructure required, or license costs and a technical owner who looks after the knowledge articles and processes for how to use the tool.

Considerations should be made regarding the tool's life cycle at this point as well. While talking about test tooling, the following article from Cania Consulting (https://cania-consulting.com/2019/10/25/software-testing-tool-basics/#Testing_tool_life_cycle) provides a good explanation of the tool...