The DevOps Handbook, Second Edition: How to Create World-Class Agility, Reliability, and Security in Technology Organizations

  • 8h 46m
  • Gene Kim, Jez Humble, John Willis, Nicole Forsgren, Patrick Debois
  • IT Revolution Press
  • 2021

This award-winning and bestselling business handbook for digital transformation is now fully updated and expanded with the latest research and new case studies!

“[The DevOps Handbook] remains a must-read for any organization seeking to scale up its IT capability and expand DevOps practices across multiple departments or lines of business.” ―Mike Perrow, TechBeacon

For years, The DevOps Handbook has been the definitive guide for taking the successes laid out in the bestselling The Phoenix Project and applying them in any organization. Now, with this fully updated and expanded edition, it's time to take DevOps out of the IT department and apply it across the full business.

Technology is now at the core of every company, no matter the business model or product. The theories and practices laid out in The DevOps Handbook are tools to be used by anyone from across the organization to create joy and succeed in the marketplace.

The second edition features 15 new case studies, including stories from Adidas, American Airlines, Fannie Mae, Target, and the US Air Force. In addition, renowned researcher and coauthor of Accelerate, Dr. Nicole Forsgren, provides her insights through new and updated material and research. With over 100 pages of new content throughout the book, this expanded edition is a must read for anyone who works with technology.

About the Author

Gene Kim is a best-selling author whose books have sold over 1 million copies. He authored the widely acclaimed book "The Unicorn Project," which became a Wall Street Journal bestseller. Additionally, he co-authored several other influential works, including "The Phoenix Project," "The DevOps Handbook," and the award-winning "Accelerate," which received the prestigious Shingo Publication Award. His latest book, “Wiring the Winning Organization,” co-authored with Dr. Steven Spear, was released in November 2023.

Jez Humble is the coauthor of Accelerate and The DevOps Handbook

In 2009 he coined the word devops by organizing the first devopsdays event. He organized conferences all over the world to collect and spread new ideas. As a pioneer he is always on the look out for new ideas to implement and explore. Currently in the media sector where he is guiding broadcasters with the transition to enter into a dialogue with it's audience as a closed feedback loop.

John Willis has worked in the IT management industry for more than 35 years and is a prolific author, including "Deming's Journey to Profound Knowledge" and "The DevOps Handbook." He is researching DevOps, DevSecOps, IT risk, modern governance, and audit compliance. Previously he was an Evangelist at Docker Inc., VP of Solutions for Socketplane (sold to Docker) and Enstratius (sold to Dell), and VP of Training & Services at Opscode where he formalized the training, evangelism, and professional services functions at the firm. Willis also founded Gulf Breeze Software, an award winning IBM business partner, which specializes in deploying Tivoli technology for the enterprise. Willis has authored six IBM Redbooks for IBM on enterprise systems management and was the founder and chief architect at Chain Bridge Systems.

Nicole Forsgren, PhD, is Partner at Microsoft Research. She is author of the Shingo Publication Award-winning book Accelerate, and is best known as lead investigator on the largest DevOps studies to date. She has been a successful entrepreneur (with an exit to Google), professor, performance engineer, and sysadmin. Her work has been published in several peer-reviewed journals.

In this Book

  • Note from the Publisher on the Second Edition
  • Foreword to the Second Edition
  • Foreword to the First Edition
  • Introduction
  • Introduction
  • Agile, Continuous Delivery, and the Three Ways
  • The First Way: The Principles of Flow
  • The Second Way: The Principles of Feedback
  • The Third Way: The Principles of Continual Learning and Experimentation
  • Conclusion
  • Introduction
  • Selecting Which Value Stream to Start With
  • Understanding the Work in Our Value Stream, Making it Visible, and Expanding it Across the Organization
  • How to Design Our Organization and Architecture with Conway’s Law in Mind
  • How to Get Great Outcomes by Integrating Operations into the Daily Work of Development
  • Conclusion
  • Introduction
  • Create the Foundations of Our Deployment Pipeline
  • Enable Fast and Reliable Automated Testing
  • Enable and Practice Continuous Integration
  • Automate and Enable Low-Risk Releases
  • Architect for Low-Risk Releases
  • Conclusion
  • Introduction
  • Create Telemetry to Enable Seeing and Solving Problems
  • Analyze Telemetry to Better Anticipate Problems and Achieve Goals
  • Enable Feedback So Development and Operations Can Safely Deploy Code
  • Integrate Hypothesis-Driven Development and A/B Testing into Our Daily Work
  • Create Review and Coordination Processes to Increase Quality of Our Current Work
  • Conclusion
  • Introduction
  • Enable and Inject Learning into Daily Work
  • Convert Local Discoveries into Global Improvements
  • Reserve Time to Create Organizational Learning and Improvement
  • Conclusion to Part V
  • Introduction
  • Information Security is Everyone’s Job Every Day
  • Protecting the Deployment Pipeline
  • Conclusion
  • A Call to Action: Conclusion to the Devops Handbook
  • Afterword to the Second Edition
  • Bibliography
  • Notes
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