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Why Your DevOps Team Should Have A Checklist And What Should It Cover?

  • Sujay Maheshwari Sujay Maheshwari
  • Saturday, Jul 11, 2020

DevOps is a culture that requires some set of practices; its common goal is unifying people and organizations around unique tasks and objectives.

The DevOps Checklist is neither unique nor static, there is no such hard and fast rule that describes the DevOps, but it should be adapted to the enterprise requirement, human interactions, and some other specific criteria.

DevOps Checklist that an organization must follow:

  • Develop a culture of continuous learning and experimentation
  • Cross-functional team to bring the change
  • Bring up the culture of customer-centric
  • proper alignment with organization’s goal
  • Source control
  • Automation for making life easy for developers and for faster deployment
  • Use Continuous Integration (CI) pipeline
  • Use Continuous feedback
  • Make a proper documentation

  • Develop a culture of Continuation learning and experimentation

So in our DevOps checklist, the first one is Continuous learning.

In this ever-changing world, where new Technologies or Ideas pop up every day. Your organization must need to keep on iterating, learning, and experimenting. Make sure to be up to date while keeping along with previous experiences in the new “mantra” for organizations. This is the foundational element that runs across entire Cloudanix individuals!

  • Cross-functional team to bring the change

A cross-functional team is people with a different set of expertise working together to fulfill a common set of objectives. The growth of the team helps to increase the decision-making processes and better structure among the organization. So always make sure to have a cross-functional team. Expertise in a wide range of things can lead an organization to the peak of success.

  • Bring up the culture of customer-centric

Only a customer knows how a product should be. To have a customer-centric approach, you just need to understand what product a customer wants and what are its pain points in this highly competitive market. Make sure to build a team of people who fit with the proper understanding of the customer and not only tell new products and releases.

Instead of making your product with the help of the latest technology, try to make the product according to customer perception, because in the end, customer matters. Nobody wants to build a product that is of no use to anyone.

  • Proper alignment with the organization goals

Make your team meet the goals of the organization. Connect with your team to share ideas, collaborate, build and work for a common goal because if your team is scattered, then it is going to affect the deliverables of your projects and ultimately lead to a decline in the company growth.

  • Source control

Source control plays a significant role in success. With the help of it, people can collaborate and accelerate release. Source control is tracking changes for the code repository. There are various other tools for the source code available in the market, like Mercurial, SVN, and Git. These tools help to increase productivity and secure collaboration with teams.

  • Automation for making life easy for developers and faster deployment

We are not working on the automation part if humans are still involved in that process. Build and deployment of code should not be the only job of the IT engineers; it is something that needs to be automated and make the life of developers easy and thus making the production process faster and better. With the help of tools like TeamCity, it has made it easy to automate builds.

Cloudanix is built with a vision that we want Cloud Ops teams to focus on their real business problems and let us handle the day-to-day grunt work and toil for them. We offer a generous free trial, so check out how we can help you and your DevOps teams.

  • Use continuous integration (CI) pipeline

Continuous Integration (CI) is a methodology where the developers can integrate the code into a shared repository from time to time. At every point in time, when you push the code onto the pipeline, automatic builds and tests can be easily run on your code.

If you have ever worked with the GitLab CI/CD pipeline, then you would know that we can automate the tests and builds so that we can find bugs at a very beginning stage, and our code stays deployment-ready now and then. Thus CI pipeline gives you the power to keep your software always deployment ready.

  • Use continuous feedback

A major significant factor that affects the growth of an enterprise is how strong its feedback aspect is, and how they react to the feedback, and what they do to overcome it. There is no point denying that no matter whether it will be software or human, feedback matters a lot, as it helps to improve.

In an IT enterprise, to achieve a high speed of workflow, the loop of feedback between the operation and development team must be so strong. Not only just limited to the DevOps, but the feedback loop must also be strong in every enterprise. A major factor for the growth of any organization is to get proper feedback and keep on working on it.

  • Make a proper documentation

What makes the major factor in our DevOps Checklist? Document Everything. Now you must be thinking about what everything is. All the processes, tasks, tools, changes that are done in the code, and in the code make sure that the meaningful comments are maintained so that anyone in the team can understand plays a major role.

So, here you go! Now that you understand and have a starting point to nurture DevOps culture in your organization – Go for it!

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