Embracing DevOps Release Management: Strategies and tools to accelerate continuous delivery and ensure quality software deployment

Unlock the power of DevOps release management to elevate your software development with early quality checks, testing, automation, and QA integration, reshaping your software delivery life cycle for excellence

Key Features

• Understand the SDLC and the most popular release management models
• Learn what makes DevOps unique and how CI/CD pipelines enforce good DevOps release management
• Drive a culture-driven release management initiative in your organization that breaks down silos
• Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free PDF eBook

Book Description

At the core of software development lies the imperative of swiftly and reliably releasing new features and updates, emphasizing the vital role of release management in the DevOps methodology. Discover how software development teams can elevate their processes by incorporating quality checks and shifting left, moving testing, automation, and QA procedures much earlier into the SDLC. However, release management is still tasked with application monitoring, overseeing infrastructure components, and managing change orders and schedules.

This book offers insights into the essence of DevOps Release Management, illuminating its nuances and providing basic strategies for its implementation. You’ll explore how CI/CD pipelines enforce good DevOps release management and master techniques to optimize them. You’ll also learn how to foster a culture of cross-functional product development that minimizes waste and maximizes value to the customer.

By the end of the book, you’ll have gained a comprehensive understanding of DevOps release management, its benefits, and practical implementation strategies. Equipped with this knowledge, you’ll be able to assess your own development processes and identify areas for improvement, ultimately leading to increased efficiency, collaboration, and value creation.

What you will learn

• Discover the significance and anatomy of the SDLC
• Understand the history of release management and how various models work
• Grasp DevOps release management and basic strategies to implement it
• Construct optimized CI/CD pipelines capable of early issue detection
• Implement the shift-left approach to enhance value delivery to customers at record speed
• Foster a culture of cross-functional collaboration in your team
• Make DevOps release management pragmatic and accessible
• Overcome common pitfalls in DevOps release management

Who this book is for

This book is a comprehensive introduction for those who are new to DevOps release management, but it's also valuable for DevOps engineers and release managers looking to enhance their skills and knowledge. If you’re looking to adopt key practices to shift left, this book will enable you to build high-quality products in record time.

Table of Contents

1. Understanding the Software Development Life Cycle
2. A Brief Introduction to Release Management
3. What Are the Various SDLC Release Management Models?
4. What Problems Does DevOps Release Management Try to Solve?
5. Understanding What Makes DevOps Release Management Unique
6. Understanding the Basics of CI/CD
7. A Practical Pipeline for Technical Release Managers
8. How CI/CD Pipelines Enforce Good DevOps Release Management
9. Developing a Culture of DevOps in Your Organization's Release Management Strategy
10. What Does Receiving Support from Leadership and Stakeholders Look Like?
11. Overcoming Common Pitfalls in DevOps Release Management

Joel Kruger is a DevSecOps engineer and Solutions Architect with 10 years of experience building CI/CD pipelines in commercial and federal sectors. He is also an expert in employing container orchestration systems for automating computer application deployments at scale. He is a proponent of building CI/CD pipeline configurations as downloadable and self-serve software factories. He operates his own corporation, dynamicVSM, a consultancy for DevOps and Value Stream Management. Joel is a very hands-on and customer service oriented person who loves to solve a challenge. Technology excites him, from cloud computing to embedded raspberry pi projects. He loves being creative with tech and is not afraid to get some hot solder in his shoe laces.