Chapter 1
Introducing DevOps
IN THIS CHAPTER
Surveying the main tenets of DevOps
Understanding DevOps values
Seeing how your organization benefits
DevOps has transformed the way engineering teams collaborate to create and ship software. It’s a broad and encompassing philosophy that inspires diverse implementations across the industry.
I define DevOps as an engineering culture of collaboration, ownership, and learning with the purpose of accelerating the software development life cycle from ideation to production. DevOps can enable you to reduce interpersonal friction, eliminate bottlenecks, improve collaboration, increase job satisfaction through engineer empowerment, and accelerate team productivity. DevOps is no silver bullet, but it can have massive impact on your organization and your products.
In this chapter, I emphasize the importance of culture over process and tooling, discuss the principles and values of DevOps, and dive into how your organization will benefit from a DevOps approach.
What Is DevOps?
This book has no exact DevOps prescription for you — because none exists. DevOps is a philosophy, one that that prioritizes people over process and process over tooling. ...
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