DevOps Foundation

Explore calms pillars of culture, automation, lean, measurement, and sharing, the central model's three ways, the full stack, accelerators like Lean and Agile, and the barriers to adoption.

Map the flow of work from development to customer, identify bottlenecks with lean value stream mapping, and boost flow through visibility, work-in-progress limits, small batches, and fewer handoffs.

The second way emphasizes fast, actionable feedback from right to left across the value stream, fostering communication, automation, and learning to build safer, more resilient systems.

Cultivate a culture of continual experimentation across teams. Break away from silo culture, embrace failure as a learning opportunity, and drive creativity, growth, and continuous improvement in the organization.

Deliver high quality products quickly by linking automated builds, tests, and deployments in a continuous delivery pipeline with CI, automated quality checks, and testing from unit to user acceptance testing.

Explore the full stack of DevOps—people and culture, processes and practices, and technology and automation—and learn how transformational leadership, lean and agile principles enable continuous delivery.

Explore how culture, collaboration, and transformational leadership drive DevOps change, examine organizational structures and barriers, and learn how teams align to DevOps culture, processes, and technologies to deliver services efficiently.

DevOps culture emphasizes collaboration, cross-functional teams, and delivering customer value. It requires guiding change by breaking silos, addressing barriers to communication, transparency, trust, and accountability.

Drive devops success through open collaboration and shared priorities that dissolve silos between development and operations, embracing a generative culture of experimentation, learning, and responsible failure.

Lead organizations by applying transformational leadership, fostering high-trust generative cultures, encouraging experimentation and cross-silo collaboration, and implementing tools that boost productivity and shorten deployment lead times toward a shared vision.

Explore Hackman's continuum from manager-led to self-governed teams and learn how self-organizing and self-directed structures empower DevOps, enable autonomy, and align with transformational leadership.

Explore organizational models from vertical and matrix to product and adaptive, highlighting DevOps culture, autonomous teams, and the move toward integrated, value driven collaboration rather than silos.

Explore the three-stage evolution of DevOps teams—from bridging dev and ops to forming a dedicated team, then to cross-functional, self-managed units enabling end-to-end delivery.

Explore how DevOps evolved from lean and agile roots and centers on 15 essential practices spanning culture, processes, and automation, including ATM accelerators, transforming service, project, and software development workflows.

Explore how IT service management and ITIL 4 foundations support DevOps by aligning IT services with business needs, integrating agile and lean practices, and enabling digital transformation.

Learn lean practices to deliver more value, eliminate waste, and improve IT services by mapping value streams, creating flow, implementing just-in-time pull, and pursuing kaizen.

Explore how the agile manifesto frames four values and twelve principles that prioritize individuals and interactions, working software, customer collaboration, and embracing change.

Drive business value with DevOps by speeding delivery while reducing waste and increasing reliability, through 15 essential practices that align development and operations and enable continuous delivery and deployment.

Balance utility and warranty to deliver reliable, secure value in DevOps. Capture voice of the customer through end-to-end feedback, identifying must-haves (critical to quality) and internal customers.

Enhance collaboration between IT and internal business stakeholders by applying business relationship management as facilitators to identify business value and ensure mutual understanding and shared value.

Lean process optimization uses value stream mapping to define, control, and measure processes. It classifies work into value, necessary non-value, and non-value-added, targeting muda, mura, and muri to improve flow.

Apply value stream mapping to reveal end-to-end value, identify waste and bottlenecks, and guide improvements by measuring total cycle time, process time, wait time, and lead time.

Foster knowledge management as a people-centric DevOps practice by sharing insights across teams, leveraging the DIKW model, mentoring, cross-functional collaboration, and Kanban boards to break down silos.

Explore visual management to make work visible and improve flow with Kanban boards. Compare pull and push; physical and virtual Kanban; WIP limits; transparency and continuous improvement.

Explore agile project management and scrum, contrast with waterfall, and learn how sprints, product backlog, roles, events, and artifacts drive iterative delivery.

Shift left in DevOps emphasizes early testing and feedback with unit and integration tests. Test driven development delivers clarity and simplicity, with refactoring to maintain quality as agile releases evolve.

Adapt change management for DevOps by embedding lightweight ITIL controls into agile ceremonies, treating standard changes as pre-authorized, and using sprint planning and reviews to protect value.

Define and manage configuration items across development, testing, staging, and production, then automate with infrastructure as code using definition files, version control, and continuous testing for safe, scalable deployments.

Explore how DevOps ties release management to continuous integration, continuous delivery, and continuous deployment through automated pipelines, infrastructure as code, and blue-green deployment for faster, safer releases.

DevOps incident management adapts traditional model to foster collaboration and shared accountability, with developers involved in incident procedures, emphasizing continuous learning and improvement while distinguishing incidents as symptoms from problems.

Adopt a DevOps problem management approach with shared accountability and kaizen-driven, root-cause analysis, integrated changes into the development pipeline via the dmaic cycle.

Identify bottlenecks in software delivery and standardize improvements with the CSI register and Scrum backlog, making continual service improvement a daily DevOps practice aligned with ITIL, lean, and agile.

Explore how anti-fragility turns disruptions into growth by leveraging chaos engineering, exemplified by Netflix's chaos monkey and the simian army, to build stronger, more reliable production systems.

Explore 15 essential DevOps practices that form the backbone of continuous delivery and deployment, linking flow, feedback, and learning to the values of calm's, culture, automation, lean measurement, and sharing.

Explore the benefits of automation and the DevOps toolchain, covering continuous integration, automated builds, automated testing, automated provisioning, automated deployment, and how cloud and virtualization enable continuous delivery.

Automate the deployment pipeline with a connected toolchain to speed delivery, reduce bottlenecks, and improve feedback through continuous integration, automated testing, and safe feature toggles.

Explore how cloud technology enables on-demand self-service, broad network access, resource pooling, rapid elasticity, and measured service, transforming IT operations and DevOps practices.

Organize DevOps teams around products with a decoupled microservices architecture, using containers to run independently scalable services. Gradually replace the monolith with microservices via the strangler pattern and a dispatcher.

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