Sharing

In stark contrast to the previously accepted paradigm of software development, sharing is pivotal for a successful DevOps transformation. This means that teams should be encouraged to share code, concepts, practices, processes, and resources. A successful DevOps-oriented organization may even go so far as to embed an operations employees or QA resource in the development team in order to facilitate autonomy and collaborative teams. Some organizations may also have shared or overlapping roles. This may be realized through some modern development techniques (TDD, BDD and so on).

At the time of writing, there are hundreds if not thousands of DevOps-specific tools. Such tools are designed to make the lives of engineering organizations better or more efficient. While the tools aspect of DevOps is important, it is important to not let a given tool define your specific organization's DevOps process for you. Once again this implementation CANNOT be achieved without applying the CAMS model first. Throughout the course of this book, we will reference and tutorialize an array of different tools and technologies. For you, specifically, it's important that you select and leverage the right tool for the right job.