Best practices for setting up your toolchain

As you have learned in this book, setting up all the tools and getting them all configured is an involved process. At this point, you should have all the tools configured, and your DevOps tools should be ready for your team to increase their collaboration and efficiency. Next are some best practices that you should consider when setting up your toolchain to ensure a smoother time setting things up:

• Define clear objectives: Before you start deploying your DevOps tools, figure out what it is you want to achieve. Many different DevOps tools do almost the exact same thing, and picking between them might not be trivial. This book focuses on Atlassian tools, but there are many different alternatives. If your company’s objective was to stay within the Atlassian ecosystem, then this book set you up to meet that objective.
• Select the right tools: With a clear objective in mind, you need to select the right set of tools. As mentioned...