Paul Swartout - Continuous Delivery and DevOps – A Quickstart Guide, 2nd Edition [2014, PDF/EPUB, ENG]

Preface
Chapter 1: Evolution of a Software House
A brief history of ACME systems
ACME systems version 1.0
ACME systems version 2.0
ACME systems version 3.0
ACME systems version 4.0
The evolution in a nutshell
Chapter 2: No Pain, No Gain
Elephant in the room
Defining the rules
Including (almost) everyone
Openness, transparency, and honesty
The great elephant disclosure
Chapter 3: Plan of Attack
Setting and communicating the goal and vision
Standardizing vocabulary and language
A business change project in its own right
The merits of a dedicated team
The importance of evangelism
Courage and determination
Understanding the cost
Seeking advice from others
Chapter 4: Culture and Behaviors
All roads lead to culture
An open, honest, and safe environment
Encouraging and embracing collaboration
Fostering innovation and accountability at grass roots
The blame culture
Building trust-based relationships across organizational boundaries
Rewarding good behaviors and success
Recognizing dev and ops teams are incentivized can have an impact
Embracing change and reducing risk
Being transparent
Chapter 5: Approaches, Tools, and Techniques
Engineering best practice
How many environments are enough?
Developing against a production-like environment
CD tooling
The cloud
Monitoring
When a simple manual process is also an effective tool
Chapter 6: Hurdles Along the Way
What are the potential issues you need to look out for?
Chapter 7: Vital Measurements
Measuring effective engineering best practice
Measuring the real world
Chapter 8: Are We There Yet?
Reflect on where you are now
Streaming
A victim of your own success
[P]lan, [D]o, [C]heck, [A]djust
Exit stage left
Rest on your laurels (not)
Chapter 9: The Future is Bright
Expanding your horizon
Expanding beyond software delivery
What about me?
What have you learned?
Appendix A: Some Useful Information
Tools
People
Recommended reading
Appendix B: Where Am I on the Evolutionary Scale?
Appendix C: Retrospective Games
The timeline game
StoStaKee
Appendix D: Vital Measurements Expanded
Code complexity – some science
Code versus comments
Embedding monitoring into your software
Index