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Continuous Delivery and DevOps: A Quickstart guide

By : Paul Swartout
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Continuous Delivery and DevOps: A Quickstart guide

By: Paul Swartout

Overview of this book

<p>For a while now, there has been a buzz around the IT industry regarding continuous delivery and DevOps. This book will provide you with some background information into these two new kids on the block and how they can help you to optimize, streamline and improve the way you work and ultimately how you ship quality software. <br /><br />"Continuous Delivery and DevOps: A Quickstart guide" will provide you with a clear and concise insight into what continuous delivery and DevOps are all about, how to go about preparing for and implementing them and what quantifiable business value they bring. Included within are some tricks and trips based upon real world experiences which may help you reduce the time and effort needed if you were to go it alone.<br /><br />In this book, you will be taken through a journey of discovery starting with real world successes, how you should prepare, plan for and implement CD and DevOps and what the pitfalls are along the way<br /><br />We will start looking at the evolution of a typical software house from fledgling start-up through the growing pains that comes with global success to a best of both worlds. We’ll delve into the many aspects of what they did to complete this evolution covering topics such as how they realized there was a problem to solve, how they set about preparing for and implementing continuous delivery and DevOps and what tools, techniques and approaches they used along the way – some technical and some not so. If you work within an organization that delivers software, you will be able to plot where you are on the evolutionary scale, understand where you need to do to be more effective, cherry pick the tools, techniques and approaches that work for you and realize the best of both worlds.<br /><br />"Continuous Delivery and DevOps: A Quickstart guide" will provide you with the background and information you need to realize the benefits within your own business</p>
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Continuous Delivery and DevOps: A Quickstart Guide
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Summary


So what new things have we learned?

  • There will be hurdles along the way; some you will see coming and some will take you by surprise

  • Put your energies into those who wish to progress and the rest will follow

  • Everyone is different and will react to what is going on around them in uniquely different ways

  • Keeping those outside of the inner circle in the loop might stop decisions being made which could scupper your progress

  • If things start to go wrong, take stock, look at the options, and move on

  • Red tape can cause problems but there will be ways around them if you persevere

  • Geography needn't be a problem if you look at simple ways to bring people closer

  • Repetition is a good thing

  • Hiring the right people may become trickier

There will no doubt be other hurdles, hazards, and potential blockers along the way but as long as you're prepared you will be successful. Talking of success, we'll now move onto the measurement of success and why it is so important.