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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)
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Section 1: Principles of DevOps and Agile
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Section 2: Developing and Building a Successful DevOps Culture
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Section 3: Driving Change and Maturing Your Processes
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Section 4: Implementing and Deploying DevOps Tools

Excessively focusing on tooling

So far, I have touched on the importance of the other aspects of DevOps before focusing on tooling. The dangers of putting too much focus on tooling are evident from numerous studies we can find online.

However, the reality is that we can focus on tooling too much compared to culture, people, and processes. Even after this point, you can excessively focus on tooling. This can damage your transformation efforts.

One of the most common areas of technology in DevOps is around automation. This could be automating your CI/CD pipelines or other processes, be it technical or business. From my experience, though, many organizations take the message of automation in DevOps to an extreme – one that is counterproductive and sometimes harmful to businesses. That begs the question, how much automation is too much? Let's have a look.

How much automation is too much?

It is important to understand how organizations get to this point. Let&apos...