CompTIA Cloud Essentials+ (CLO-002)Management and Technical OperationsMedium
A company is considering implementing a DevOps culture and CI/CD pipelines in their cloud environment. They aim to reduce lead time for changes, decrease deployment failure rates, and improve mean time to recovery (MTTR). Which of the following is a primary cultural shift encouraged by DevOps to achieve these goals?
- AIncreased reliance on manual approval processes for all deployments.
- BStrict separation of development and operations teams with distinct responsibilities.
- CPrioritizing individual team performance metrics over end-to-end system performance.
- DEmphasis on collaboration, automation, and shared responsibility between development and operations.
Show answer & explanationAnswer & explanation
Correct answer: D. Emphasis on collaboration, automation, and shared responsibility between development and operations.
DevOps promotes a cultural shift towards greater collaboration and communication between development and operations teams, coupled with extensive automation throughout the software delivery lifecycle. This shared responsibility and automation are key to reducing lead time, failures, and improving recovery.
Why the other options are wrong
- A. DevOps advocates for automation to streamline deployments, reducing the need for manual approvals, especially in lower environments.
- B. DevOps actively breaks down silos between Dev and Ops, promoting integration, not strict separation.
- C. DevOps emphasizes end-to-end system performance and business value, rather than isolated team metrics, to avoid sub-optimization.
DevOps Culture
A set of practices that combines software development (Dev) and IT operations (Ops) to shorten the systems development life cycle and provide continuous delivery with high software quality.
- Emphasizes collaboration, communication, and integration.
- Automates processes across the software delivery lifecycle.
- Focuses on shared responsibility and continuous improvement.
Memory trick: Culture of collaboration, automation's embrace, shared responsibility, and a continuous race.