Skills

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

Start with What DevOps is

Topics

  1. 01

    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.

    4 min
  2. 02

    Before DevOps

    Separate teams, handovers and big releases, what went wrong with them, and how agile led to DevOps.

    3 min
  3. 03

    The delivery lifecycle

    The stages a change goes through from an idea to production, the practices that automate them, feedback loops, and environments.

    4 min
  4. 04

    Culture and CALMS

    Culture, automation, lean, measurement and sharing, owning what you build, and blameless postmortems.

    3 min
  5. 05

    Measuring delivery

    The four DORA metrics, how to work each one out, and how teams use them.

    3 min