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DevOps: Release practices

DevOps: Release practices

From the course: DevOps Foundations: Lean and Agile

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DevOps: Release practices

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- We were continuing to improve on delivering value with our Agile processes, but we couldn't forget the problems we had releasing our product to production. - Not that the other executives would let us forget, but it was a good reminder that you're not really delivering value if your customers can't use it. - We needed to add in technical discipline from DevOps as well. We hired an experienced release manager to help. She looked over what we were doing and identified the major things we needed to accomplish in order to move safely at high speed. - She told us we needed to do a couple of things. The first was to add more process gates around releases as a temporary step until we had more safety built into the entire release pipeline. - She implemented a per ticket sign off checklist to ensure peer reviews and testing had been done in each case, and set up a go no-go meeting for each release for a review of the team's confidence levels and to surface risks. - [Executive] The second and…

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