Introducing DevOps Principles

Obey the principles without being bound by them.

– Bruce Lee

DevOps has numerous definitions, most of which are focused on culture and procedure. If you’ve gotten to the point where you have purchased this book as a part of your journey in the DevOps field, you have probably heard at least about 100 of these definitions. Since this is a book that focuses more on the hands-on, on-the-ground aspect of DevOps, we’ll keep those abstractions and definitions to a minimum, or rather, explain them through actions rather than words whenever possible.

However, since this is a DevOps book, I am obliged to take a shot at this:

DevOps is a series of principles and practices that aims to set a culture that supports the automation of repetitive work and continuous delivery of a product while integrating the software development and IT operation aspects of product delivery.

Not bad. It’s probably incomplete, but that’s...