SAFe® for DevOps Practitioners: Implement robust, secure, and scaled Agile solutions with the Continuous Delivery Pipeline

Discover how the DevOps approach with Scaled Agile Framework helps you develop and deliver high-quality, secured solutions with a reduced risk of production failures with this step-by-step guide

Key Features

• Explore the five elements of the CALMR approach to avoid product development challenges
• Use value stream management to introduce systems thinking and flow for product development
• Demonstrate how the CD pipeline combines practices and technology to optimize your value stream
• Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free eBook in the PDF format

Book Description

Product development and release faces overlapping challenges due to the combined pressure of delivering high-quality products in shorter time-to-market cycles, along with maintaining proper operation and ensuring security in a complex high-tech environment. This calls for new ways of overcoming these challenges from design to development, to release, and beyond. SAFe® for DevOps Practitioners helps you use a DevOps approach with the Scaled Agile Framework and details how value streams help you resolve these challenges using examples and use cases.

The book begins by explaining how the CALMR approach makes DevOps effective in resolving product development roadblocks. Next, you'll learn to apply value stream management to establish a value stream that enables product development flow, measure its effectiveness through appropriate feedback loops, and find ways of improving it. Finally, you'll get to grips with implementing a continuous delivery pipeline that optimizes the value stream through four phases during release on demand. This book complements the latest SAFe DevOps courses, and you'll find it useful while studying for the SAFe DevOps Practitioner (SDP) certification.

By the end of this DevOps book, you'll have gained a clear understanding of how to achieve continuous execution and release on demand using DevOps and SAFe.

What you will learn

• Understand the important elements of the CALMR approach
• Discover how to organize around value using value stream mapping
• Measure your value stream using value stream metrics
• Improve your value stream with continuous learning
• Use continuous exploration to design high-quality and secure features
• Prevent rework and build in quality using continuous integration
• Automate delivery with continuous deployment
• Measure successful outcomes with Release on Demand

Who this book is for

This book is for IT professionals such as DevOps and DevSecOps practitioners, SREs, and managers who are interested in implementing DevOps practices using the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) approach. Basic knowledge of DevOps and agile software development lifecycle and methodology will be helpful.

Table of Contents

1. Introducing SAFe® and DevOps
2. Culture of Shared Responsibility
3. Automation for Efficiency and Quality
4. Leveraging Lean Flow to Keep the Work Moving
5. Measuring the Process and Solution
6. Recovering from Production Failures
7. Mapping Your Value Streams
8. Measuring Value Stream Performance
9. Moving to the Future with Continuous Learning
10. Continuous Exploration and Finding New Features
11. Continuous Integration of Solution Development
12. Continuous Deployment to Production
13. Releasing on Demand to Realize Value
14. Avoiding Pitfalls and Diving into the Future

Robert Wen is a DevOps consultant at ReleaseTEAM. He specializes in Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment, Value Stream Management, and Agile Development. He has over 20 years of experience in hardware and software development, working in industries such as defense, aerospace, healthcare, and telecommunications. During his career, he has been a coach as the Scrum Master for several Agile projects and a trainer for courses on the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe). He holds the following standings and certifications: SAFe Program Consultant (SPC), Atlassian Certified Expert, Certified CloudBees Jenkins Platform Engineer, GitLab Professional Services Engineer, and Flow Framework Professional.