Key DevOps Practices
The technical and cultural habits of high-performing teams.
Technical Practices
- Continuous Integration (CI): Merging code daily, automated testing.
- Continuous Delivery (CD): Automated release pipelines.
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Managing infra via git (Terraform/Ansible).
- Microservices: Loosely coupled architecture.
- Observability: Logging, Metrics, and Tracing.
Cultural Practices
- Blameless Post-Mortems: Focus on process failure, not human error.
- Shift Left: Testing and security early in the lifecycle.
- You Build It, You Run It: Devs carry pagers for their services.
- Psychological Safety: Safe to fail, safe to speak up.