2. Introducing DevOps and Some Tools

What Does It Mean to Be DevOps in a Container World? People have different perceptions about DevOps, what it means, and how it works.

In this chapter, we are going to explain our view on DevOps and the bottlenecks and challenges that DevOps focuses on addressing. We will introduce the idea of a value chain in software product delivery and how we can use different techniques from lean, agile, and DevOps communities to optimize and speed up the value chain.

We will also introduce some tools, such as the Mobius Loop and the Open Practice Library that we will use to navigate our way through the many practices utilized in the rest of the book.

DevOps is a bit of a buzzword at the moment! It seems that for every decade in technology, there is a new buzzword associated with it.

Throughout the 2010s, Agile was that buzzword—This is going to be an Agile project, or We're going to use Agile to deliver this, or We're going...