DevOps Culture: The Goals of DevOps Flashcards
These flashcards cover the goals of DevOps, contrasting traditional models with DevOps culture, and emphasizing the importance of shared goals, collaboration, and accountability in achieving speed and stability in software development and operations.
What is the topic of this lesson in the DevOps Essentials course?
The goals of DevOps, particularly focusing on shared goals within the DevOps culture.
What is DevOps culture a response to?
It is a response to the traditional model where development and operations are considered separate entities with different and opposing goals.
What are the goals of the development team in the traditional model?
To deliver features into the hands of customers as quickly as possible, prioritizing speed.
What are the goals of the operations team in the traditional model?
To maintain the stability of the system and minimize downtime, prioritizing stability.
Why do the goals of development and operations teams often oppose each other in the traditional model?
Because deploying changes for new features introduces a risk of instability, which conflicts with the goal of maintaining system stability.
How do the goals function within a DevOps culture?
In DevOps culture, development and operations teams share the same goals of speed and stability, working together to achieve them.
What is time-to-market, and why is it important in DevOps?
Time-to-market is the time it takes to deploy finished code to production and is important for organizational success. DevOps aims to minimize time-to-market.
What is one of the shared goals of development and operations in DevOps?
Minimizing production failures to maintain system stability.
What is the significance of immediate recovery from failures in DevOps?
Immediate recovery reduces the impact of failures and ensures minimal disruption to customers, aligning with the goal of system stability.
How do roles in a DevOps culture differ from traditional development and operations roles?
In DevOps culture, roles tend to blur, with developers taking on more operational responsibilities and vice versa, fostering collaboration and shared accountability.
