So, what is DevOps exactly? DevOps is a term for a group of concepts that, while not all new, have catalyzed into a movement and are rapidly spreading. Like any new and popular term, people have different and sometimes contradictory perceptions of what it is. Currently, DevOps is more like a philosophical movement, and not yet a precise collection of practices, descriptive or prescriptive (e.g., CMM-I, ITIL, Agile, etc.). In his book The Phoenix Project, Gene Kim, an important DevOps influencer, describes a model how an IT organization can transition to a DevOps model to facilitate fast, rapid, reliable flow of features into production and, ultimately, into the hands of users. His model is called the 3 Ways of DevOps. The 3 ways describe the values and philosophies that frame the processes, procedures, practices of DevOps.

2. “Development
and Operations
collaboration”
What is DevOps?

3. DEV OPS
The first way (systems thinking)

4. DEV OPS
The second way (feedback loops)

5. DEV OPS
The third way (experiments)

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10. Technical Debt
Cloud Infrastructure
Our Own DevOps Journey

11. Plan
1 Monitor + Learn
ReleaseDevelop + Test
2
Development Production
4
3

12. • Troubleshooting performance and
availability is often difficult
• Operations cannot keep up with
development and release fast enough
• Agile methodologies speed up the
development cycle
• Prioritization of investments is not
based on real-world usage patterns
Development Operations

13. It starts with an idea – and a plan
how to turn this idea into reality …
Manage work
Develop + Test 1
Plan
Project starts
PlanTrack progress

14. Write Code
Unit Testing
2
Build
Version Control
Build Verification
Release
Once the iteration starts, developers
turn great ideas into features …
Develop + Test

16. Cloud
Load Testing
Integration testing
environment
Automated functional
testing environment
3
Pre-production
environment
Staging
environment
Monitor + Learn
When all tests pass, the build is deployed to testing
environments for each stage in the release process
Release

17. Learn and understand how users use your app, how it reacts
and quickly fix issues and bugs
Monitor + Learn
4
Monitor
Feedback
Plan the next iteration

18. TFS
Develop
Developer Workstation
Team Collaboration
Build&Test
Build/CI
Test
Deploy
Release
Monitor&Learn
Monitor
Microsoft
Ecosystem
Workstations - On-Premises | Hybrid | Cloud Monitoring - On-Premises | Hybrid | CloudServices - On-Premises | Hybrid | Cloud
DEV TEST QA
Environments - On-Premises | Hybrid | Cloud

19. Develop
Developer Workstation
Team Collaboration
Build&Test
Build/CI
Test
Deploy
Configuration
Monitor&Learn
Monitor
This graphic shows OSS and partner products that are
integrated with the Microsoft DevOps solution
Mixed
Ecosystem
Release

20. Plan
1 Monitor + Learn
ReleaseDevelop + Test
2
Development Production
4
3

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