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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

Summary

In this chapter, we have looked at DevOps culture and understood why culture is important in DevOps. We have discussed the need for increased transparency and better communication and the need to maintain a strong culture. Finally, we discussed the need to break down silos in your organization and the importance of this in DevOps.

In the next chapter, we'll explore anti-patterns in DevOps and discuss how to avoid them.

Questions

Let's now recap some of what we have learned throughout this chapter:

  1. What are the key pillars of culture?

    a) Roles and responsibilities, rules of engagement, and retrospectives

    b) Teamwork and collaboration

    c) Great social life with colleagues and retrospectives

    d) Completing work as quickly as possible and pushing other teams hard

  2. How can you promote better communication in your organization?

    a) Have developers take time off.

    b) Take everyone on team-building courses.

    c) Have developers perform releases.

    d) Let your operations...