The DevOps Handbook: How to Create World-Class Agility, Reliability, and Security in Technology Organizations by Gene Kim (PDF)

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Increase profitability, elevate work culture, and exceed productivity goals through DevOps practices.More than ever, the effective management of technology is critical for business competitiveness. For decades, technology leaders have struggled to balance agility, reliability, and security. The consequences of failure have never been greater―whether it’s the healthcare.gov debacle, cardholder data breaches, or missing the boat with Big Data in the cloud.And yet, high performers using DevOps principles, such as Google, Amazon, Facebook, Etsy, and Netflix, are routinely and reliably deploying code into production hundreds, or even thousands, of times per day.Following in the footsteps of The Phoenix Project, The DevOps Handbook shows leaders how to replicate these incredible outcomes, by showing how to integrate Product Management, Development, QA, IT Operations, and Information Security to elevate your company and win in the marketplace.

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Reviews from Amazon users which were colected at the time this book was published on the website:

⭐This book is a worthy sequel to The Phoenix Project, a kind of novel that illustrated the principles of DevOps in a similar fashion that Goldratt’s The Goal explained a generation ago the principles behind lean manufacturing and the theory of constraints. It used a fictional story to help the reader understand the “why” of DevOps and what a successful end state looks like. In The DevOps Handbook the same set of authors continue where they left off, this time explaining the “how” of DevOps, how the three Ways (flow, feedback, continuous learning) are implemented in practice. This book lets you see through the current hype around DevOps, much of it coming from tool vendors positioning their various “solutions” as silver bullet, putting the technology in its rightful place beside people and process. While in the Flow section there is plenty on continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) that for most people is what first comes to mind when they think of DevOps, since so much has been written about this elsewhere I don’t think this is the most useful part of the book. To me the most valuable section, because it’s not covered so well elsewhere, is the one on the principles of feedback, how information flows back from production environments to development via telemetry and A/B testing. But perhaps what is most useful and by itself makes this book more than worth its price are the various case studies from the companies with the most mature DevOps practices, what problems they were struggling with at first and how they got to where they are now. The book ends on a great note with the appendix, which elaborates on the lean principles on which the theoretical framework behind DevOps is built, a how to guide on “blameless postmortems”, and an extensive list of references, most of them with URLs, so that the reader can drill down on all the subjects covered.

⭐Agility and continuous improvement : how to become a truly technology driven company. This is not a step-by-step handbook on creating a DevOps culture (Continuous integration, continuous deployment and a test driven environment) but an insightful guide as to how modern IT operations are run and operate. The reason why Amazon is so hard to beat is because they update and deploy new code every single second (and further accelerate this pace) – some e-commerce businesses I work with barely manage an update every week, despite their much smaller size. Their managers never heard of DevOps – if they would have read this book they will understand why their survival depends on them adapting DevOps culture and methodology.

⭐Not so much as a handbook as more hype about DevOps. I mean DevOps is great and all that, but this book is not going to be much help implementing it.

⭐Great culmination of various works into one read. Highly recommend. This book provides a strong conceptual overview with a large degree of DevSecOps coverage, as well as numerous case studies, but don’t expect specifics or how-to details. Honestly, that would require this book to be a volume series. Technical and non-technical audiences can derive value from the book, although the book doesn’t shy away from some technical aspects. Consider this a capstone book with various other books to provide the details. If your new to DevOps, or want to get a vision for it’s potential, as well as strong indicators for how to implementing it (without the implementation minutia), this is one of the best books I’ve found to date.

⭐This book is pretty much mandatory reading for modern organizations who either don’t understand or know what DevOps is, or are in the midst of implementing it. Same book is used in the ASPE ICP-FDO class because it’s pretty much the DevOps gold standard explaining how to make scalable and fast reacting IT possible, while simultaneously reducing risk to the business. Yeah it’s full of bold ideas and it takes dedicated and competent people at your organization to implement, and don’t expect to get it right the first time. But it starts with small changes and snowballs into huge gains as time progresses, given a trusting management team.

⭐I guess reading is fundamental. I should have noticed that the reviews were 95% business types. If you are a business type, this book might be helpful. If you are technical and trying to get a handle on how your job might change or how you might change to keep your job – not so much.

⭐Having worked in teams where DevOps is practiced and those where it is not, I can tell you from experience: This is the way to manage a software enterprise.”The DevOps Handbook” offers a comprehensive picture of DevOps practice, giving just enough detail on each topic to know where to begin and what it looks like when you’re doing it right. Examples are multitude, and the style is clear.I highly recommend this book for any one looking to improve their teams’ ability to coherently problem solve.

⭐Great product, great value, and fast shipping.

⭐This is a manifesto and not a handbook. Over 90% of the content is spent on explaining the problems that devops solves without actually defining what devops is. Frustratingly it contains case studies stating the efficiencies gained by using devops but without actually explaining how. I think any content which could be considered a “handbook” could be condensed into a short chapter.

⭐This is the best book I’ve read on DevOps and it follows on nicely from Gene Kim’s other book The Phoenix Project.It’s quite easy to think that DevOps practices are just something that dev teams deal with and the value is simply just an increase in throughput, but the book provides clarity on the colossal value that adopting a DevOps culture and the principles can have on teams, the business, and customers.Throughout the book, Gene echoes the importance of having the whole product team (product manager, designer and several engineers)) involved in the transformation, as well as focusing on outcomes, and to achieve outcomes you need to collect data and learn through experimentation which is covered in the book too.Gene gives good advice that it’s important to avoid funding projects and instead you should fund services and products: “A way to enable high-performing outcomes is to create stable service teams with ongoing funding to execute their own strategy and road map of initiatives”.This is the most comprehensive and practical DevOps guide out there and the layout makes the content easy to digest. The book covers:– History leading up to DevOps, and Lean thinking– Agile, and continuous delivery– Value streams– How to design your organisation and architecture– Integrating security, change management, and complianceThe principles and tech practices of:1. Flow2. Feedback3. Continual Learning and Experimentation“Our goal is to enable market-oriented outcomes where many small teams can quickly and independently deliver value to the customer”

⭐This book, make no mistake, is not the successor to the phoenix project. It’s a much dryer review of everything good in DevOps today.If you’re looking at this book 3 years after it has been out I would tell you to save your money and find something more recent. But for now, until the technologies and principals it mentions are considered outdated it is likely the best review of modern DevOps practices.Buy it, read it and improve upon it

⭐Perfect companion to the Phoenix Project (as it shares one of the same authors and is more of an entertaining ‘horror story with a happy ending’ about how badly managed IT projects can fail!) which I also bought at the same time. Agile infrastructure and lean IT, in the future people will look back on the history of IT management and DevOps and wonder how and why we ever delivered infrastructure and software projects using individual team silos, just throwing barrels of code down the waterfall without talking back to whoever started throwing them! If you really want to get ahead, start with the third section for practical implementation advice.

⭐I read this book after it was recommended during a LinkedIn hosted training course (DevOps Fundamentals). Unsurprisingly, it’s tightly aligned with the advice in that course, but the book is exceptional in being easy going and a “light” read despite the serious topic. It uses cases studies with an usual degree of honest insight (many of the case studies being major companies including FaceBook, LinkedIn, Etsy, NetFlix.A great read for anyone wanting to “catch up” on modern DevOps (even from scratch). I’m off to buy it’s accompanying novel, The Phoenix Project…

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