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We begin the book by discussing the background for DevOps. Part One begins by delving into the goals of DevOps and the problems it is intended to solve. We touch on organizational and cultural issues, as well as the relationship of DevOps practices to agile methodologies.
In Chapter 2, we explore the cloud. DevOps practices have grown in tandem with the growth of the cloud as a platform. The two, in theory, are separable, but in practice virtualization and the cloud are important enablers for DevOps practices.
In our final background chapter, Chapter 3, we explore operations through the prism of the Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL). ITIL is a system of organization of the most important functions of an ...
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