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The DevOps Standard.The vendor-neutral model for the AI-driven world.

The common language DevOps has been missing. A global, connected system that brings DevOps capabilities, architecture, governance, and measurement together for modern, AI-enabled delivery.

From the DevOps community. For the DevOps community.

The DevOps Standard — The Vendor-Neutral Model for the AI-Driven World, the official DevOps Institute book
The DevOps Standard.The vendor-neutral model for the AI-driven world.
Who is it for?
01

Leaders and
executives

02

Practitioners and engineers

03

Consultants, assessors, auditors and educators

The DevOps challenge

Bringing modern DevOps together

01

DevOps is established. But it is not yet consistent.

DevOps is foundational to how modern organizations deliver software, yet it remains one of the least consistently defined disciplines in organizational technology. The result is uneven performance, difficulty in scaling, and an inability to measure outcomes with confidence.

02

Faster AI-generated code does not automatically mean better outcomes.

Cloud platforms, distributed architectures, and AI-assisted development have amplified both capability and risk. Without corresponding advances in validation, governance, and system-level design, greater speed does not translate into reliable outcomes.

03

The industry needs a shared global standard for DevOps.

Today’s DevOps landscape is fragmented across vendors, technologies, teams, and organizations. A unifying structure is necessary to close the gaps between intention and execution—and make DevOps work consistently at the level required by modern systems.

The answer

Introducing the DEVOPS INSTITUTE Model

The book introduces a connected system that brings DevOps capability and delivery architecture together, supported by automation, orchestration and continuous governance. It gives organizations a shared structure for understanding, assessing and improving delivery.

Shaped by expertise

From the Community.
For the Community.

The DevOps Standard brings together best practices and expertise from seasoned DevOps professional from around the globe.

Inside the book

Table of contents

The book includes 17 chapters, moving from the case for a shared DevOps standard to practical application, measurement, scale, and future-ready delivery.

  1. 01

    The state of DevOps today

  2. 02

    What DevOps is

  3. 03

    AI-native DevOps

  4. 04

    The DEVOPS INSTITUTE® Operating Model

  5. 05

    Leadership and Collaborative Culture

  6. 06

    Design for DevOps

  7. 07

    Continuous Integration and Continuous Testing

  8. 08

    Continuous Delivery and Continuous Deployment

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  1. 09

    Elastic Infrastructure and Platform Engineering

  2. 10

    Continuous Security

  3. 11

    Continuous Monitoring and Observability

  4. 12

    Assessing where you are

  5. 13

    The DEVOPS INSTITUTE® Transformation Playbook

  6. 14

    Measuring what matters

  7. 15

    DevOps at scale

  8. 16

    Future horizons: applying DevOps principles to emerging change

  9. 17

    Your next steps

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