The ways of DevOps, summarized from the book “The Phoenix Project”.

• From development to production.
• Know/visualize all committed work.
  • Business projects
  • Infrastructure projects
  • Planned changes
  • Unplanned work
• Release work at a rate the bottle neck can handle.
• Improve performance of/protect the bottle neck.
  • Any improvement not at the bottle neck is an illusion.
• Minimize work in progress (WIP).
• Automate environment deploys.
• Automate code deploys/pipelines.
• Small batch size deploys/changes, multiple times a day.

• Code reviews.
• Pair changes.
• Automate unit testing.
• Automate end to end testing.
• Metrics monitoring and KPIs (Key Performance Indicators) of business objectives.
• Make wait times visible.

• Improve daily work.
  • Increases stability/availability.
• Controlled failures to test resiliency.
• Practice deploys, incidents, events.