DevOps Journey Map

Phase 1: Beginning the Chef Journey

Local Development

Code Collaboration

Multiple teams contributing code

Source control & code review

practices in place

Continuous Integration tools in

place

Standard Chef code deployment

jobs defined

Standard Chef code testing jobs

defined

Deployment reporting defined

Cookbook pipeline process

implemented

Packaged workstation binaries

created
Local development workflow
defined

Continuous Integration

Code repository layouts defined

Test -> Code -> Test practice

Chef Code Deployment

Quality reporting defined

Phase 2: The Road to DevOps

Application Deployment

Virtualization as a Service

Full Stack Automation

Application deployment process

defined

API-driven virtualization platform

implemented

Storage/Network automation
implemented

Dev -> Test -> QA -> Prod

environments consistent

Chef run lists defined as packaged

apps

End-to-end testing defined

End user interface driving packaged

app deployment

Smoke testing defined

Continuous Deployment

Application deployment pipelines

complete from Dev -> Test -> QA > Prod

Entire software/infrastructure stack

treated as one