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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
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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
12
Section 4: Implementing and Deploying DevOps Tools

Legacy infrastructure and systems

Of course, DevOps is not just for the cloud; it can be for hybrid environments and, of course, on-premises. DevOps is arguably easier with cloud environments, but legacy infrastructure, systems, and thinking can be real blockers to DevOps.

Legacy infrastructure causes several issues when it comes to DevOps adoption since these systems are not designed for the continuous processes that come with DevOps. Releasing in iterations with legacy infrastructure is also very difficult and, in some cases, impossible. This breaks the whole DevOps ethos and starts to introduce challenges we need to overcome.

Legacy modernization

One of the ways we deal with technical debt from legacy infrastructure is to go through a modernization process. This represents a journey from traditional infrastructure to more modern services, for the most part in a public cloud provider.

Modernization has many benefits for businesses looking to scale as it helps reduce costs...