4.1 The DevOps Infinite Cycle

No doubt you’ve come across the DevOps steps illustrated as a sort of infinity symbols. This suggests that DevOps is an endless cycles of these steps.

  • Plan
  • Code
  • Build
  • Test
  • Release
  • Deploy
  • Operate
  • Monitor

As an IT professional you will find yourself in this cycle and more importantly you will often be problem solving in the middle of this cycle. It is a luxury to be neatly involved from the planning stage onward and even under these ideal circumstances you will soon find yourself troubleshooting throughout the process. This is the attraction of being a generalist!