Foundational DevOps Patterns
Paulo Marques, Filipe F. Correia

TL;DR
This paper introduces four foundational DevOps patterns—Version Control Everything, Continuous Integration, Deployment Automation, and Monitoring—that are detailed, structured, and adaptable to help practitioners implement DevOps practices effectively.
Contribution
It provides a structured and detailed set of four foundational DevOps patterns designed for easy adoption and continuous improvement in industry practices.
Findings
Patterns are detailed and structured for practical use
Patterns include metrics for continuous improvement
Designed to be flexible for different contexts
Abstract
Adopting DevOps practices is nowadays a recurring task in the industry. DevOps is a set of practices intended to reduce the friction between the software development (Dev) and the IT operations (Ops), resulting in higher quality software and a shorter development lifecycle. Even though many resources are talking about DevOps practices, they are often inconsistent with each other on the best DevOps practices. Furthermore, they lack the needed detail and structure for beginners to the DevOps field to quickly understand them. In order to tackle this issue, this paper proposes four foundational DevOps patterns: Version Control Everything, Continuous Integration, Deployment Automation, and Monitoring. The patterns are both detailed enough and structured to be easily reused by practitioners and flexible enough to accommodate different needs and quirks that might arise from their actual…
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Taxonomy
TopicsSoftware Engineering Techniques and Practices · Advanced Software Engineering Methodologies · Software System Performance and Reliability
