About the author
Gene Kim is an award-winning person in several roles: CTO, researcher and writer. He was the founder of Tripwire and has served as CTO for 13 years. He has written two books, including "The Visible Ops Handbook", and he is currently writing the Phoenix Project:a novel about IT, DevOps, and helping Your Business Win "and" DevOps Cookbook ". Gene is a huge fan of IT operations, obsessed with improving operational processes-without impacting the current IT production environment, allowing developers to deliver more operational functionality to production rather than just completing code. He has worked with a number of top Internet companies to improve their release processes and improve the integrity of their IT operational processes. In 2007, Computer World placed gene in the list of "40 innovative it people under 40 years of age", and Purdue University awarded him an outstanding Alumni award to honor his achievements and leadership in the field of expertise.
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What is DevOps
What's the difference between devops and agility?
What is the difference between DevOps and ITIL and ITSM?
DevOps and visual Operation dimension
The basic principles of DevOps
The application field of DevOps model
The value of DevOps
How information security and QA are integrated into DevOps workflows
My favorite DevOps mode one
My favorite DevOps mode two
My favorite DevOps mode three
1. What is DevOps
The term "DevOps" usually refers to the emerging specialization movement, which advocates a high degree of synergy between development and IT operations, thus improving the reliability, stability, resilience and security of the production environment while completing high frequency deployments.
Why is development and it operational dimension? Because the typical value stream is between the business (definition requirements) and the customer (delivery value).
The origins of the DevOps movement are usually placed around the 2009, along with a number of movements that complement and promote each other-efficiency seminar campaigns, particularly the groundbreaking "10-day Deployment", the Infrastructure-code campaign, presented by John Allspaw and Paul Hammond (Mark Burgess and Luke Kanies, the Agile Infrastructure Movement (Andrew Shafer), the Agile Systems Management campaign (Patrick Debois), the "Lean Entrepreneurship" campaign (Eric Ries), Jez Humble's continuous integration and release campaign, And Amazon's "platform as a service movement" and other these movements are complementary and promote each other and developed.
DevOps's co-author, John Willis, wrote a very good post here
http://itrevolution.com/the-convergence-of-devops/