Thread by @ankyitm

Seven core principles to achieve a #DevOps culture (Thread)

Implementing a DevOps culture is challenging at the beginning and may face high resistance. These seven core principles can make the journey effective

1. Create a highly collaborative environment:
- #teams work together can achieve any tasks easily
- Silos may end up in confusion and failures
- Collaborative environment provides a unified process and continues improvement toward business goals

2. Automate when possible:
- Repeated automated tasks can lead teams to focus on innovation
- Automation means rapid #development, #testing, and deployment
- Automation may include integration, reviews, testing, security, deployment, and monitoring - Check for the right tools

3. Focus on customer needs:
- A customer-first mindset is the key to driving the development
- With #automation and customer-focused delivery improves higher satisfaction
- Post-product #delivery #monitoring (#observability) should be considered

4. Develop small and release often:
- Adopt modern #development practices
- Build loosely coupled components

5. Include security at every phase:
- Add #secure application development as a foundation
- Use automated tools and reviews process to include security validation at each phase
- Educate each development and operations team to embed security

6. Continuously experiment and learn
- Add #innovation as part of the company culture
- Experiment with new technology/services that can improve the customer experience

7. Continuously Improve
- Implement metrics to help teams to monitor and evaluate processes and tools
- Use value stream mapping to validate and check for the #improvement