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Re: The DevOps Checklist

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Post by Jemaclus »

Not sure why they chose to prefix this with "DevOps", because this seems like a great list of general engineering team principles and not DevOps-specific principles. Still, it's a great list.

I'm actually looking for some resources for my DevOps guy, and I was looking for a checklist but maybe something more practical. Something like:

[ ] Check X server config

[ ] Check Y DNS route

[ ] Check Z...

and so on for making sure he doesn't forget to do certain tasks when deploying major features.

I was hoping this was that, but it's not. Still, it's a good list and I enjoyed reading it.

Re: The DevOps Checklist

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Post by benjarrell »

Jemaclus wrote: post #2

Not sure why they chose to prefix this with "DevOps", because this seems like a great list of general engineering team principles and not DevOps-specific principles. Still, it's a great list. I'm actually looking for some resources for my DevOps guy, and I was looking for a checklist but maybe something more practical. Something like: [ ] Check X server config [ ] Check Y DNS route [ ] Check Z... and so on for making…

I see this checklist is exactly what "DevOps" is, as stated in the first question:

  DevOps is all about alignment. It was born out of frustration and trouble between the disparate priorities and incentives of Development and Operations teams. Alignment comes from unifying towards a common goal.
I see your checklist as only coming from experience and institutional knowledge shared by having developers and operations working together.

Re: The DevOps Checklist

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Post by signal »

Jemaclus wrote: post #2

Not sure why they chose to prefix this with "DevOps", because this seems like a great list of general engineering team principles and not DevOps-specific principles. Still, it's a great list. I'm actually looking for some resources for my DevOps guy, and I was looking for a checklist but maybe something more practical. Something like: [ ] Check X server config [ ] Check Y DNS route [ ] Check Z... and so on for making…

Thanks for checking it out! It sounds like what you're looking for is a Ops or deployment checklist (but really just deployment automation). DevOps really is about "general engineering team principles", one of them being 'DevOps is not isolated to a specific role in our organization.' aka 'Don't have a "DevOps guy"'. There's a lot of great material in the references section at the bottom if you'd like more information on the reasoning there, but I think some investment in automation would relieve the checklist issue and make your deployments quicker and more flexible as a result.

Re: The DevOps Checklist

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Post by signal »

benjarrell wrote: post #3
Jemaclus wrote: post #2

Not sure why they chose to prefix this with "DevOps", because this seems like a great list of general engineering team principles and not DevOps-specific principles. Still, it's a great list. I'm actually looking for some resources for my DevOps guy, and I was looking for a checklist but maybe something more practical. Something like: [ ] Check X server config [ ] Check Y DNS route [ ] Check Z... and so on for making…

I see this checklist is exactly what "DevOps" is, as stated in the first question: DevOps is all about alignment. It was born out of frustration and trouble between the disparate priorities and incentives of Development and Operations teams. Alignment comes from unifying towards a common goal. I see your checklist as only coming from experience and institutional knowledge shared by having developers and operations wo…

:) Yes exactly! Deployment automation to the rescue!
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