9. Other Ilities

As a child my family’s menu consisted of two choices: take it or leave it.

—Buddy Hackett

9.1 Introduction

In Part Two of the book, we discussed the major functionalities of the continuous deployment pipeline, such as build, test, and deployment. There are other DevOps operations that resemble a process-like pipeline such as error detection, diagnosis, and recovery. In this chapter, we use the word DevOps pipeline to represent all aspects of DevOps.

If you are a software architect, you probably know the word “ility” is used to describe quality concerns other than those that focus on the basic functionalities and their correctness. In terms of DevOps, ilities correspond to questions such as: How well are these functionalities ...

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