Quick Byte - DevOps bare-bones

Bare-bone structure of DevOps:


1. Values - CAMS
                       i.  Culture
                       ii. Automation
                      iii. Management
                      iv. Sharing
2. Principles
                        i. Systems Thinking - Dev to Ops - Overall System
                        ii. Amplifying Feedback Loops
                        iii. Continuous Experimentation and Learning
3. Methods
                        i. People Over Process Over Tools
                        ii. Continuous Delivery
                        iii. Lean Management
                        iv. Visible Ops Change Control
                        v.  Infrastructure as Code
4. Practices
                        i. Incident Command System
                        ii. Developers on Call
                        iii. Status Pages
                        iv. Blameless Postmortems
                         v. Embedded Teams (Ops person working with the developers)
                         vi. The Cloud (API driven so can work on Infra as code)
                        vii. Andon Cords (To notify and stop a buggy code from going into prod)
                       viii. Dependency Injection (Inversion of Control - Web Framework model)
                         ix. Blue/Green Deployment
                          x. Chaos Monkey (Remember NetFlix)
5. Tools
                          i. Programmable (Not just UI driven)
                         ii. Verifiable
                        iii. Well Behaved

References & Resources to explore the subject further:
1.  https://devops-research.com/
2.  https://puppet.com/solutions/devops
3.  https://puppet.com/blog/what-is-devops
4.  https://puppet.com/resources/ebook/devops-and-you-advice-for-building-your-career
5.  https://puppet.com/blog/devops-tools-support-your-devops-initiatives       
6.  https://puppet.com/blog/what-a-devops-engineer
7.  http://www.amazon.in/Devops-Handbook-World-Class-Reliability-Organizations/dp/1942788002
8.  https://martinfowler.com/bliki/DevOpsCulture.html     
9.  https://martinfowler.com/bliki/ContinuousDelivery.html
10.https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/blogs/c914709e-8097-4537-92ef-8982fc416138/entry/devops_in_practice_best_practices_for_adopting_continuous_delivery?lang=en