DevOps Awareness (Entry Level)

Topics covered

• describe common DevOps metrics
• describe continuous delivery movement and what distinguishes it from continuous integration and continuous deployment
• describe continuous integration and the role it plays in the deployment pipeline
• describe DevOps, its purpose, and why it appeals to organizations
• describe how infrastructure configuration management can be applied to how infrastructure is managed
• describe the Agile development and Agile infrastructure movements and their impact on DevOps
• describe the dramatic nature of DevOps on optimizing flow
• describe the relationship between DevOps and organizational culture and identify the three patterns adopted by successful organizations
• describe the role and benefits of automating steps in the deployment pipeline
• describe the role of the postmortem and why it's important to avoid laying blame
• describe what's involved in transitioning to an innovation culture
• discuss build automation and its role in the deployment pipeline
• discuss how infrastructure as code helps to optimize flow
• discuss organizational culture and the importance of becoming a learning culture
• discuss popular tools used for automating the deployment pipeline
• discuss the concept of containerization
• discuss the influencers that brought about the DevOps methodology
• discuss the role of microservices in software deployment
• discuss the second pattern adopted by successful organizations, automate everything you can
• discuss the ultimate goals of DevOps
• explain the reasons why IT organizations need DevOps
• identify common tools used for configuration management of infrastructure
• identify problems as they occur
• identify the importance of pushing quality closer to the source
• identify the important benefits of infrastructure as code