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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

Avoiding failed transformation projects

The reality is that projects fail. DevOps transformation is no different and, as with all projects, you should be prepared for this and wherever possible learn from others' mistakes, putting controls in place so that you not only learn from those mistakes but also prevent them from happening again.

The top five reasons for DevOps transformation projects not going as planned and often getting abandoned are outlined here:

  • Rooting DevOps initiatives within customer values
  • Poor management of organizational change
  • Failing to collaborate
  • Failing to adopt an iterative approach
  • Poor management of expectations in terms of DevOps initiatives

Let's understand these reasons better.

Rooting DevOps initiatives within customer values

Many companies across sectors are advised by the business side that they need to move faster to seek new opportunities and fight threats. You have this very real need for speed...