Hands-On Guide to AgileOps: A Guide to Implementing Agile, DevOps, and SRE for Cloud Operations

Chapter 1: Introduction

Chapter Goal: Understanding the agile journey and the need to bridge development and operations area

No of pages 17

Sub -Topics

1. Agile History

2. Evolving software teams

3. Bridging the gap

4. Complementing Agile

5. Agile in InfraOps

6. Agile Manifesto

Chapter 2: Traditional Infrastructure Operations

Chapter Goal: Quick brief on traditional ITSM approach and the need to transition to Agile Operations.

No of pages: 20

Sub - Topics

1. ITSM and its phase

2. Drawbacks

3. Need to change

Chapter 3: Agile and DevOps

Chapter Goal: Introduce core concepts to Agile and DevOps and understand its relevance in the product lifecycle.

No of pages: 13

Sub - Topics:

1. When to adopt Agile

2. Agile principles and values

3. Scaling Agile with DevOps

4. When to adopt DevOps

5. DevOps in product lifecycle

Chapter 4: Factors leading to Agile Operations

Chapter Goal: Get to learn the factors that are motivating organizations to transition their infrastructure operations to agile operations

No of pages: 29

Sub - Topics:

1.Shift towards Agile

2.Benefits with Agility

3.Cloud Computing

4. Microservices

5. Deployment patterns

6. Shift left testing

7. Changes in architecture

Chapter 5: Introduction to Agile Methods

Chapter Goal: Introduce agile methods, roles, ceremonies and best practices

No of pages: 40

Sub - Topics:

1. Scrum

2. Kanban

3. Scrumban

Chapter 6: Introduction to Agile Frameworks

Chapter Goal: Introduce agile frameworks, roles, and study their comparison.

No. of pages: 47

Sub - Topics:

1. Agile ITSM

2. IT4IT

3. Lean IT

4. SAFe

5. Spotify

6. LeSS

7. Nexus

8. DAD

9. Site Reliability Engineering

Chapter 7: Using Agile for Infrastructure Operations

Chapter Goal: With the basic understanding on agile, this chapter focuses on the strategy for adopting agile in infrastructure operations space.

No. of pages: 22

Sub - Topics:

1. Adopting the right agile method

2. Identify the right tools

3. Upskill teams

4. Redefine roles and responsibilities

5. Continuously monitoring team performance

6. Pilot-Expand-Sustain

Chapter 8: Infrastructure as Code

Chapter Goal: Learn how to leverage agile methods while implementing infrastructure as code pipelines and extend its integration with development pipelines.

No. of pages: 21

Sub - Topics:

1. Getting started with Scrum

2. Estimating stories

3. Defining acceptance criteria

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