Chapter 5: Avoiding Cultural Anti-Patterns in DevOps

Following on from learning about the specific challenges of breaking down silos between teams and understanding the importance of culture in DevOps, in this chapter, we will look at the challenges of building culture in DevOps – specifically, the anti-patterns that can be blockers to culture. This is not an easy task and requires careful planning and thought.

In this chapter, we're going to cover the following main topics:

  • Organizational alignment
  • Resistance to change
  • Difficulty scaling up
  • Excessively focusing on tooling
  • Legacy infrastructure and systems

Organizational alignment

Alignment across the organization is critical. Later in this chapter, we will talk about resistance to change, ...

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