The DevOps Checklist
devopschecklist.comNot sure why they chose to prefix this with "DevOps", because this seems like a great list of general engineering team principles and not DevOps-specific principles. Still, it's a great list.
I'm actually looking for some resources for my DevOps guy, and I was looking for a checklist but maybe something more practical. Something like:
[ ] Check X server config
[ ] Check Y DNS route
[ ] Check Z...
and so on for making sure he doesn't forget to do certain tasks when deploying major features.
I was hoping this was that, but it's not. Still, it's a good list and I enjoyed reading it.
Thanks for checking it out! It sounds like what you're looking for is a Ops or deployment checklist (but really just deployment automation). DevOps really is about "general engineering team principles", one of them being 'DevOps is not isolated to a specific role in our organization.' aka 'Don't have a "DevOps guy"'. There's a lot of great material in the references section at the bottom if you'd like more information on the reasoning there, but I think some investment in automation would relieve the checklist issue and make your deployments quicker and more flexible as a result.
I see this checklist is exactly what "DevOps" is, as stated in the first question:
I see your checklist as only coming from experience and institutional knowledge shared by having developers and operations working together.DevOps is all about alignment. It was born out of frustration and trouble between the disparate priorities and incentives of Development and Operations teams. Alignment comes from unifying towards a common goal.:) Yes exactly! Deployment automation to the rescue!