Devops overview

Question 1

Devops?

Answer 1

Practives intented to reduce the time between commiting and producton

practice of operations and development engineers participating together

Question 2

What are the two main people in devops and what do they do?

Answer 2

Developpers - implement idea , want to push new features
operators - place in production, want to keep system avialable.

Question 3

What is the goal/motication of DevOps?

Answer 3

Organizations want to reduce the time to market for new features, without sacrificing quality.

Question 4

Five main points of DevOps

Answer 4

Treat operators as first class citizens

make dev more responsible for incident handling

enforce deployment practices uniformly across both dev and ops

Use continuous deployment

develop infrastructure code using same processes as application code.

Question 5

What are some other characteristics about the teams of Devops and their dynamics?

Answer 5

Speed up deployment by minimizing synchronous coordination among dev teams (meetings cost time cause everyone has to be there)

Teams must be small

Question 6

What are the advantages of small teams

Answer 6

Advantages: make decisions quickly, less coordination overhead, more coherent units