A look inside the DevOps movement

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  Start DevOps on the right path

  DevOps practices may be wholly new to your organization. Take these beginning steps to ensure adoption works for the long term. Read Now

1Benefits of the DevOps culture

Adopting the DevOps movement in your IT department can mean faster delivery, more collaboration between teams and better processes overall. These benefits extend both to cloud businesses and traditional enterprise data centers.

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  Collaborate and automate!

  Collaboration, automation and good processes result from a DevOps mindset, improving quality and delivery time.  Read Now

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  Cloud shop? You need to think in DevOps

  Cloud deployments are often less efficient than traditional data center operations, without clearly achievable benefits. DevOps can turn that around.  Read Now

2The tools of the DevOps trade

Once you understand what the DevOps movement is and how it can benefit the IT department, it's time to acquire the skills and tools required to succeed.

Start by evaluating the DevOps tool options out there and map these to your needs. Look into the major DevOps tool vendors as well as more specialized, open source and home-grown options for greater control.

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  Evaluating DevOps tools

  You have to know what models and implementation styles work for your IT team to select effective DevOps tools.  Read Now

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  Mapping tools to skills

  The best plan of attack for adopting DevOps is to know your IT strengths and weaknesses, and implement a tool chain to match.  Read Now

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  Declarative or imperative?

  The debate over DevOps tools isn't quieting down any time soon, with benefits in both the declarative and imperative camps.  Read Now

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  How to use the Puppet configuration management tool

  The other top-tier DevOps tool, Puppet, enforces policies in a framework. It's designed to eliminate manual services and the errors that can accompany them.  Read Now

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  10 more DevOps tools to consider

  Beyond Chef and Puppet, you have more options for DevOps tools, many of which are open source.  Read Now

3Test your workload automation knowledge

By now, you have a pretty good understanding of what DevOps is and what DevOps adoption can bring to the IT organization. Now, take this quiz to see how well you understand workload automation tools.

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  What do you know about workload management tools?

  Using workload management tools is a step toward an efficient data center. How well do you know your workload automation options? Read Now