DevOps Concepts and Assessment Framework

Once you have an innovation culture, even those who are not scientists or engineers - poets, actors, journalists - they, as communities, embrace the meaning of what it is to be scientifically literate. They embrace the concept of an innovation culture. They vote in ways that promote it. They don't fight science and they don't fight technology
- Neil deGrasse Tyson

In this chapter, we will discuss how to quickly get an understanding of DevOps from 10,000 feet, with best practices on how to prepare for changing a culture. This will allow us to build the foundations of the DevOps concepts by discussing what our goals are, as well as getting buy-in from organization management. Basically, we will try to cover DevOps practices that can make application life cycle management easy and effective.

It is very important to understand that DevOps is not a framework, tool, or technology. It is more about the culture of an organization. It is also a way people work in an organization using defined processes and by utilizing automation tools to make daily work more effective and less manual.

To understand the basic importance of DevOps, we will cover the following topics in this chapter:

• Need for DevOps
• How DevOps culture can evolve
• Importance of PPT—people, process, and technology
• Why DevOps is not all about tools
• DevOps assessment questions