Chapter 1
A Lightbulb Goes Off
The value of DevOps is not very well understood in IT today because there are very few examples of it being applied effectively to infrastructure. This is the reason this book exists, and what makes it unique. This chapter illustrates the value of DevOps applied to IT infrastructure. Later chapters provide you with the code, tools, and processes required to apply DevOps to IT infrastructure and, hopefully, get the DevOps lightbulb to go off.
Enterprise IT as a Source of Risk to the Business
Network administration has not drastically changed in 30 years. It still remains mostly a manual process. When a task needs to be accomplished, a problem fixed, or a customer issue resolved, an operator takes their hands, places ...
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