DevOps (development and operations) describes a type of agile relationship between development and IT operations. The goal of DevOps is to improve this relationship by advocating better communication and collaboration between business units.

Adoption of DevOps can help your organization to:

• Deploy updates more frequently and efficiently to ensure faster time to market
• Lower the failure rate of new releases
• Improve mean time to recovery
• Shorten lead time

In this course, you will learn to approach DevOps as an IT mindset that encourages communication, collaboration, integration, and automation between software developers and IT operations in order to improve the speed and quality of delivering viable software solutions.

You will also learn to further streamline the movement of software change through the Analyze, Plan, Design-Build-Test, and Deploy-Maintain stages, while empowering cross-functional teams with full ownership of software applications—from design through production support

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Course Objective

• Understand the need for DevOps in today’s business, including the goals of DevOps and challenges that DevOps solves
• Realise the benefits of agile and DevOps methodologies over traditional waterfall development
• Determine what should be automated within an organization
• How to develop clear interdepartmental communication in order to break down silos and avoid the pitfalls and politics of the organizational culture
• Apply the tools that can be leveraged at each stage of the development process
• How to identify and map value streams
• How to optimize flow to ensure smooth transformation from current state to future state
• Application of a continuous integration/continuous delivery cycle to meet DevOps goals
• How to utilize cloud infrastructure to enable continuous testing and integration
• Understand the benefits of telemetry and automated feedback as it pertains to continuous delivery
• Importance of blameless post-mortems
• Best practices for expanding DevOps across the organization

Anybody interested in reducing IT costs, increasing IT quality, and decreasing time to market (in other words, adapting to change quickly and effectively) will benefit from taking DevOps Implementation Essentials. This includes personnel who perform the following job functions:

• DevOps: Application software engineers, automation engineers, DevOps engineers, DevOps managers, operations managers, programmers/developers, QA/testers, quality assurance managers, software solutions architects, solutions engineers, systems engineers
• Application and software development: Application development managers, scrum master
• Business operations: Business systems managers, product managers/owners
• Infrastructure, networking, and telecom: Infrastructure managers, network managers, technical services managers
• Cloud computing: Cloud solutions directors
• Cybersecurity: Risk managers

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Introduction to DevOps

• DevOps in my workplace
• Challenges that DevOps solves
• Waterfall vs. agile

Analyze

• Points of pain
• Stakeholders
• Tools

Plan

• Value stream
• Optimizing flow

Design, Build, Test

• Implementing continuous delivery
• Version control and collaboration
• Tools and practices for testing

Deploy and Maintain

• Deployment and maintenance tools
• Telemetry and automated feedback
• Blameless post-mortems

DevOps Best Practices and Next Steps

• Review DevOps best practices
• Next steps

Exercises:

• Exercise 1: DevOps in My Workplace
• Exercise 2: Identify Challenges that DevOps Solves
• Exercise 3: Choose a Methodology: Waterfall vs. Agile
• Exercise 4: Identify Points of Pain within an Organization
• Exercise 5: Identify Organizational Culture and Stakeholders
• Exercise 6: Identify Tools that Currently Exist within Your Organization
• Exercise 7: Map the Value Stream
• Exercise 8: Map Flow
• Exercise 9: Optimize and Implement
• Exercise 10: Utilize cloud Infrastructure for DevOps
• Exercise 11: Deploy and Maintain an Application
• Exercise 12: Perform a Blameless Post-Mortem