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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

What is a DevOps culture?

In previous chapters, we discussed a little bit about culture. Now, it's time to go into more detail. Culture has many meanings but for DevOps, when we talk about culture, we're really talking about a shared understanding between development and operations teams, as well as a shared responsibility for the applications they build. That then roughly translates to the following things:

  • Increasing transparency
  • Better communication
  • Collaboration across teams

Despite what some people think, there is much more to DevOps than technology. DevOps is not a technological evolution of your tooling or the platforms that you use within your organization.

Culture in DevOps is also not letting teams define their own destiny; it is about working together. Implementing these things can be scary, but I want to take you through four things that can help practice this and build up the right culture in your organization.

All the things we are...