DevOps Foundations: Transforming the Enterprise

Course details

As your organization evolves, your IT practices can't remain stagnant. Growing organizations are faced with a variety of new and unique concerns: legacy programs, multiple vendors, and more. In this course, learn how to adopt and scale DevOps—a set of practices you may already be familiar with—in an enterprise environment. Instructor Mirco Hering explains what makes enterprise-level DevOps unique and steps through how to jump-start your own transformation. Learn how to analyze your application portfolio and identify a minimum viable cluster for your DevOps adoption. Explore value stream mapping and the different types of enterprise-level DevOps tools. Plus, learn how to include vendors in your DevOps journey, steer your transformation, and make a central DevOps team work for your business.

Learning objectives
Why DevOps at the enterprise level is different
Analyzing your application portfolio
Identifying a minimum viable cluster (MVC)
Creating and using value stream maps
Tooling at the enterprise level
Including vendors in your DevOps journey
Using the Deming cycle
DevOps organizational patterns

Concepts

Introduction

Transforming your organization

Why DevOps at the Enterprise level

Why is the enterprise level different
The role of corporate culture
The three dimensions of enterprise DevOps
Transformation is a continual process

Where to Start

Analyze your application portfolio
Find a minimum viable cluster (MVC)
Use the MVC to uplift capabilities

Value Stream Mapping

What is a value stream map (VSM)
Creating value stream maps
Using value stream maps

Tooling at the Enterprise Level

Types of DevOps tools
Making the right choices
Central vs. federated approaches

Vendor Management

Include vendors in the journey
Contracts and incentives
Implement engineering standards

Steering the Transformation

Use the Deming cycle
Transaction costs and batch sizes
A transformation scorecard

Organizational Structure

DevOps organizational patterns
Using a central team
How to make a DevOps team work for you

Conclusion

Next steps