1 The DevOps ingredients

This chapter covers

  • Defining DevOps
  • Introducing the CAMS model

It’s 11:30 p.m. on a Friday, when John, the IT operations manager, hears his phone ring. The ringtone is distinct, one that John has programmed so that he can instantly recognize a call from the office. He answers the phone, and on the other end is Valentina, one of the senior software developers at John’s office. There’s a problem in the production environment.

The last software release included additional functionality that changed how the application interacted with the database. But because of a lack of adequate hardware in the testing environments, the entire application couldn’t be tested prior to release. Around 10:30 this evening, a scheduled task ...

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