Strategic DevOps

DevOps is not something you can buy or install, even if some product names might suggest otherwise. This book helps you connect the dots between DevOps culture, technical execution, and business value, offering a practical framework to scale your organization in a world increasingly shaped by rapid change and the growing influence of AI.

While DevOps principles apply broadly, we focus on the developer, operator, and business triad to keep things grounded and actionable. We explore how DevOps culture influences everything from planning and automation to testing, cybersecurity, and observability. Along the way, we take a step back from the technical, asking: what does value actually mean?, and how can DevOps culture create, protect, and scale it?

Scaling technology is easy. Scaling people and culture is the real challenge, and this is where DevOps shines. After reading this book, you will move from mindset to execution, tying culture, metrics, and value together to understand how technical and human systems shape an organization's success.

What you will learn

● Implementing DevOps culture principles.

● Fostering collaboration and breaking organizational silos.

● Automation to development, deployment, and maintenance of a product or service.

● Integrating cybersecurity via shift left/right, threat modeling, and Zero Trust.

● Establishing useful metrics and KPIs for data-driven continuous improvement.

● Implementing observability, monitoring, alerting, and post-mortems for system health.

● Enabling better decision-making in organizations and businesses.

Who this book is for

This book is for engineers, operators, and business leaders seeking to understand and scale value through DevOps culture. With a focus on why, those without a coding background can engage meaningfully, grasping most of the content. The book provides clear and actionable insights into how people, mindset, and culture shape organizational success.

Table of Contents

0. Navigation

1. Introduction to DevOps

2. Planning and Reacting to a Changing Organization’s Needs

3. Automation

4. Importance of Automated Testing

5. Security

6. Understanding Pipelines

7. Continuous Integration

8. Continuous Delivery

9. Pipeline Mastery

10. Trusting Our Metrics

11. Valuation, Bridging Management and Engineering

12. Observability

13. This Was Just the Beginning

Benjamin Abrams was born in San Diego, California, and later became a wandering nomad, traveling throughout the United States, Canada, and Thailand. Jay B. Abrams was born in Los Angeles, CA, and received an MBA from the University of Chicago, where he also took graduate courses in the department of economics.