Your Practical Guide to Do Devops the Right Way

No doubt, DevOps is going big in the software industry, and every company wants to practice it. When companies start any new process, they need guidance and assistance in the beginning. Similarly, practicing DevOps needs proper advice and steps to follow. We can theoretically describe DevOps as a cultural shift in an organization but to do DevOps; you need practical knowledge, procedures, and tools. Hence, Shippable recently introduced a practical DevOps guide for the companies looking to practice DevOps. 

DevOps today:

• No clear definition of success and structured procedures

While every company wants to practice DevOps, but there are no any set of procedures to follow. Everyone has their set of rules to do DevOps, and this creates a chaotic state within the organization and hard to take further steps in achieving real DevOps.

• Fragmented tools to do DevOps

Using fragmented tools increases dependency on different tools and if some tool goes down, then the whole DevOps workflow effects. 

• Waste of developers time and effort in doing repetitive and mundane tasks

Most of the developers time is being spent in unproductive and repetitive tasks; this affects the overall productivity of the company and hence the product delivery to the market delays.

• No standard metrics to measure the DevOps score

Whenever you try implementing some new process, you need to know the success factors and a point (at least an approx. one) to know you are on the right path but DevOps until today has no such metrics and surprising to see no company has stressed on to create one.

DevOps Reality Score Matrix:

Without proper parameters, it is impossible to see the road ahead, and till now, there is nothing such you see to compare your DevOps effort and analyze if this is the right way to do it.

Hence you need this playbook, it has a do it yourself and step by step procedure to practice DevOps in your organization through 'DevOps Reality Score Matrix.'

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To gain DevOps maturity by zero-touch automation across the organization with all your applications from Dev to Prod.

The model estimates your level of DevOps maturity by determining what part of your software delivery workflow is automatic, i.e. how far you are from achieving the ideal Zero Touch Automation for the application. In the above example matrix, the DevOps maturity is 6/16, i.e. 37.5%.

You need to complete this exercise for all the apps in your organization and get the average; this will let you know the DevOps Reality Score and where you are in your DevOps efforts across the firm. 

Give a try and see your DevOps score. Do DevOps the right way.