DevOps For Dummies

Develop faster with DevOps

DevOps embraces a culture of unifying the creation and distribution of technology in a way that allows for faster release cycles and more resource-efficient product updating. DevOps For Dummies provides a guidebook for those on the development or operations side in need of a primer on this way of working.

Inside, DevOps evangelist Emily Freeman provides a roadmap for adopting the management and technology tools, as well as the culture changes, needed to dive head-first into DevOps.

• Identify your organization’s needs
• Create a DevOps framework
• Change your organizational structure
• Manage projects in the DevOps world

DevOps For Dummies is essential reading for developers and operations professionals in the early stages of DevOps adoption.

Table of Contents

Part 1: Demystifying DevOps

CHAPTER 1: Introducing DevOps

CHAPTER 2: Designing Your Organization

CHAPTER 3: Identifying Waste

CHAPTER 4: Persuading Colleagues to Try DevOps

CHAPTER 5: Measuring Your Organization

Part 2: Establishing a Pipeline

CHAPTER 6: Embracing the New Development Life Cycle

CHAPTER 7: Planning Ahead

CHAPTER 8: Designing Features from a DevOps Perspective

CHAPTER 9: Developing Code

CHAPTER 10: Automating Tests Prior to Release

CHAPTER 11: Deploying a Product

Part 3: Connecting the Circuit

CHAPTER 12: Implementing Rapid Iteration

CHAPTER 13: Creating Feedback Loops around the Customer

CHAPTER 14: DevOps Isn’t a Team (Except When It Is)

CHAPTER 15: Empowering Engineers

Part 4: Practicing Kaizen, the Art of Continuous Improvement

CHAPTER 16: Embracing Failure Successfully

CHAPTER 17: Preparing for Incidents

CHAPTER 18: Conducting Post-Incident Reviews

Part 5: Tooling Your DevOps Practice

CHAPTER 19: Adopting New Tools

CHAPTER 20: Managing Distributed Systems

CHAPTER 21: Migrating to the Cloud

Part 6: The Part of Tens

CHAPTER 22: Top Ten (Plus) Reasons That DevOps Matters

CHAPTER 23: Top Ten DevOps Pitfalls

About the author

Emily Freeman is a technologist and a storyteller who helps engineering teams improve their velocity. As the author of DevOps for Dummies, she believes the biggest challenges facing developers aren’t technical, but human. Her mission in life is to transform technology organizations by creating company cultures in which diverse, collaborative teams can thrive.

Emily is a Principal Cloud Advocate at Microsoft, where she manages modern operations advocacy, and her experience spans both cutting-edge startups and some of the largest technology providers in the world. Her work has been featured in outlets such as Bloomberg and she is widely recognized as a thoughtful, entertaining, and professional keynote speaker. Emily is best known for her creative approach to identifying and solving the human challenges of software engineering. It is rare in the technology industry to find individuals.