DevOps in practice

Getting your DevOps strategy and implementation right depends largely on how well you can think through the importance and value-added of each practice, and convince the senior leaders and other stakeholders to share the same point of view. Without having stakeholder buy-in, some of the initiatives may not get the desired and required attention. As DevOps is a combination of people, processes, and technology, it is the people aspect that offers the most challenge when it comes to enterprise change management.

The goal of this section is to provide some ideas, tips, and recommended guidance around some of the key practices that are relevant for API-centric solutions. We shall make use of the Packt Insurance Inc. case study as a reference for the examples shared.

Note

In this section, the focus is to provide implementation-related guidance without going deeper into explaining the fundamental concepts. You are advised to review the additional reading materials...