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

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Agile has transformed the way software development is done today. Digital organizations and startups have embraced and reaped the benefits of agile and DevOps. However, the infrastructure and cloud operations world has largely remained untouched by the agile movement. The infrastructure and operations world has largely continued using IT service management and ITIL for running scale operations.

There are many best practices that can be adopted for operations, namely, agile, DevOps, site reliability engineering (SRE), lean, ITIL, IT4IT; however, there is no guidance available on how to use these processes in the IT infrastructure world. Similarly, there are tools available for running these processes, but there is no guidance available on how to use these tools for running operations.

With the advent of cloud computing, it has become equally important to understand the benefits of IaaS, PaaS, or SaaS for enterprises. There has been a shift from a monolithic to microservices architecture to improve the availability and up time for environments and applications.

There are numerous agile methods like Scrum, Kanban, and scrumban and different scaled agile frameworks such as SAFe, Spotify, LeSS, and Nexus, DAD. Enterprises find it difficult to decide which agile framework and method to adopt. They can be easily adopted for operations both for on-premise and the cloud.

This book is a hands-on guide on how to adopt agile, DevOps, and SRE practices; how to build a roadmap for them; and how to select the most suitable processes for your organization to achieve higher reliability, agility, and lower costs while running cloud and infrastructure operations.

We welcome you to this exciting journey of discovering new ways of running IT operations by leveraging various processes, methods, and techniques to create an efficient, cost-effective, and agile model that serves the needs of modern digital enterprises.

We will also be creating content and best practices on a continuous basis that you can view on the companion site at www.AgileInfraOps.com .

To my family, Shweta and Soumil, for always being there by my side and sacrificing their time for my intellectual and spiritual pursuits. This and other accomplishments of my life wouldnt have been possible without your love and support.

To my mom and my sister: for their love and support as always; without your blessings, nothing is possible.

To my co-authors, Raminder and Udita: thank you for the hard work and quick turnarounds to deliver this book. It was an enriching experience, and I am looking forward to working with you again soon.

To my team at HCL, who have been a source of inspiration with their hard work, ever-engaging technical conversations, and technical depth: Raminder, Udita, Piyush, Amit, Sarvesh, Subramani, Praveen, Sagar, Amit Dwivedi, Sandeep, Shakuntala, Vasand, Punith, Nitin, Vivek, Gaurav Bali, Arvind Gautam, and Inderpal.

Thank you to Celestine, Aditee, and the entire team at Apress for turning our ideas into reality. It has been an amazing experience authoring with you, and over the years, the speed of decision-making and the editorial support have been excellent.

Thank you, goddess Saraswati, for guiding us to the path of knowledge and spirituality.

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(Asato Ma Sad Gamaya, Tamaso Ma Jyotir Gamaya, Mrityor Ma Amritam Gamaya)

Lead us from ignorance to truth, lead us from darkness to light, lead us from death to immortality.