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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 why organizations move to DevOps

In Chapter 1, Introducing DevOps and Agile, we discussed the goals of DevOps, as well as some of the values of DevOps and the challenges that DevOps will help us solve. What about why organizations move to DevOps? This is a question we will now look at in more detail.

According to the 2019 DORA State of DevOps Report (https://cloud.google.com/devops/state-of-devops), top performers in DevOps deliver code faster, have fewer bugs, and resolve incidents more quickly. Some of the highlights from that report include the following statistics backing up the previous statement:

  • 208 times more frequent code deployments
  • 106 times faster lead time from commit to deploy
  • 2,604 times faster time to recover from incidents
  • 7 times lower change failure rate

Organizations that embrace DevOps practices simply get more done. By utilizing a single team comprising cross-functional members all working in collaboration, DevOps organizations...