DevOps Essentials

Module 1: DevOps Awareness

• Why DevOps?
• What is DevOps?
• How Does DevOps fit with other initiatives, techniques, and frameworks?

Module 2: Culture and People •• Agile values and principles
• Focus on Business Outcome
• Team Organization Structure Options
• Team Skills & Training
• Creating environments for team success
• Leadership: Leadership characteristics that are required by DevOps
• Culture: based on collaboration, learning, innovation, trust, Blameless Post-mortem
• Challenges, Support, and back-out: letting teams create the solutions
• Ensuring liaison with the business to understand benefits

Module 3: DevOps Principles and Concepts

• Application Lifecycle Management
• Rapid Development: - Small Chunks - More Frequent Deployment
• Infrastructure as Code & Environments - S/W defined infrastructure
• Continuous Improvement
• Concepts of CI/CD - the Continuous Delivery Pipeline

4: Processes

• Service Level Management
• Financial Management
• Change Management
• Test Management
• Release Management
• Security Management
• Incident Management

Module 5: Automation and Tools

Module 6: Where to Start?

• Governance
• Assessment
• Selecting Projects
• How the team will operate
• Establish the anchor points
• When to begin scaling
• To reorg or not
• When and how to evaluate project success

Module 7: Feedback Loops, Continual Learning and Experimentation
• Telemetry
• Continuous Learning
• Injecting Failure

Module 8: A last look around