What is DevOps
What DevOps is, the problems it grew out of, and the ideas behind it: the delivery lifecycle, culture, and measuring how a team delivers.
Beginner · 5 topics · about 15 minutes of reading
Step 1 of the DevOps engineer roadmap
Topics
- 014 min
What DevOps is
Development and operations working as one team, what DevOps aims for, where the name came from, and the jobs built around it.
- 023 min
Before DevOps
Separate teams, handovers and big releases, what went wrong with them, and how agile led to DevOps.
- 034 min
The delivery lifecycle
The stages a change goes through from an idea to production, the practices that automate them, feedback loops, and environments.
- 043 min
Culture and CALMS
Culture, automation, lean, measurement and sharing, owning what you build, and blameless postmortems.
- 053 min
Measuring delivery
The four DORA metrics, how to work each one out, and how teams use them.