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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

Designing metrics for your team

Now that we understand the key metrics that are involved in DevOps, it is next important to understand where those metrics can be used and in which scenarios. You can have too many metrics that you track in an organization, and these can then be counterproductive.

Knowing which metrics to use depends on many different parameters. However, we will now look at some example scenarios, describe what the goal of their DevOps transformation is, and look at the metrics that will help them identify their success.

Scenario 1: Small organization with a dedicated DevOps team

For small organizations, one thing that is common between them is their ability to become more agile and break down silos that exist between teams. Smaller teams allow for faster feedback loops and cycle time. In fact, most small organizations have fewer silos overall, and some may have no silos.

In this scenario, let's imagine we have a dedicated DevOps team at our organization...