DevOps Foundations: Planning and Implementing a DevOps Strategy
This course will teach you how to start and scale the DevOps journey inside your company.
What you'll learn
An overly-ambitious DevOps adoption plan can lead to frustration and loss of momentum. In this course DevOps Foundations: Planning and Implementing a DevOps Strategy, you’ll learn to start and scale your DevOps journey. First, you’ll explore what questions you need answers to before your DevOps pilot. Next, you’ll discover the most important practices and activities to use on your pilot effort. Finally, you’ll learn how to scale what you’ve learned to new teams and products. When you’re finished with this course, you’ll have the skills and knowledge to implement DevOps successfully.
Table of contents
- Overview 1m
- Challenges You Face When Adopting DevOps 2m
- What an Adoption Journey May Look Like 2m
- What to Prove in Your DevOps Pilot 3m
- Staffing Your First Team 9m
- Orienting Around Small Batches, Visual Systems, and Continuous Delivery 3m
- A DevOps Approach to Version Control 3m
- Tackling the Integration and Delivery Pipeline 2m
- Automation to Introduce in the DevOps Pilot 4m
- Building Awareness and Momentum in the Org 4m
- Overview 1m
- Challenges You Face When Scaling DevOps 2m
- Expanding Your Pool of Stakeholders 2m
- Skills Learned That Must Scale, and How to Fill the Skills Gap 6m
- Choosing Tech and Processes to Standardize On 3m
- Staffing and Structuring the Next Teams 2m
- The Purpose and Construction of a Platform Team 3m
- Shifting Left on Security 5m
- The Evolution of IT Roles as DevOps Scales 2m
- Publishing Metrics to Stakeholders 2m
- Increasing Your Chances of Sustained Success with DevOps 4m
About the author
Richard Seroter is a Director of Outbound Product Management at Google Cloud, with a master’s degree in Engineering from the University of Colorado. He’s also an instructor at Pluralsight, lead InfoQ.com editor for cloud computing, frequent public speaker, author of multiple books on software design and development, and former 12-time Microsoft MVP for cloud. Richard maintains a regularly updated blog on topics of architecture and solution design and can be found on Twitter as @rseroter.