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.