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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

Resistance to change

Change happens – it is a frequent occurrence in any business. Sometimes, these changes are forced, while other times, they happen because of the need to change for the good of the business. Regardless of the scenario, in most organizations, we will likely come across resistance to change. If that resistance is not handled properly, our DevOps transformation can go off the rails before it's even begun.

Therefore, it is critical to perform a DevOps transformation to understand how to deal with organizational change, understand the roles involved, and the steps needed to make it successful.

Understanding the roles of organizational change

When navigating through DevOps transformation, for employees, this is a major change to the organization. When we are making any major change to how the organization operates, it is important to understand the roles of the two key players that make this happen successfully. These roles are management and human...