Foundational components for a strong software delivery model
When it comes to deploying and maintaining applications in production, I recommend using DevOps Research and Assessment’s (DORA’s) software delivery maturity model to help prioritize areas to focus on and aspects of your production deployment processes you should optimize.
Important note
The software delivery maturity model talks about four key areas—namely, Deployment frequency, Lead time for changes, Time to restore service, and Change failure rate, and these are categorized as Elite, High, Medium, and Low. You can read more about this in detail here in the State of DevOps 2021 report: https://dora.dev/publications/pdf/state-of-devops-2021.pdf. You can also register and view the rest of the reports at https://dora.dev/publications/ and https://cloud.google.com/devops/state-of-devops.
We will look at a couple of key components that help you create the right foundation to ensure you are able...
