This course is targeted at architects designing software-intensive systems with a goal of adopting DevOps practices to enable continuous delivery of high quality and secure software. If you know nothing about DevOps, don’t fear. The course begins with a brief overview of DevOps and key concepts. If you attended last year, consider coming again since roughly half of the material is new. In addition to examples of designing for deployability from real projects, we have added deep dives and case studies that focus on variability options and the pros and cons of popular DevOps architectural patterns such as microservices, feature toggling, canary testing, and image baking. We also explore more deeply how to integrate static analysis tools into the deployment pipeline to minimize architectural drift and provide tips for how to get the best value from them. Practical takeaways include a template for specifying measurable deployability requirements and a handout with more than 20 architectural tactics successfully used on DevOps projects. To keep things interesting, we also include a facilitated discussion session on the role of the architect and Infrastructure as Code.
