Summary

In this chapter, we discussed the concept of NoOps – no operations. We discovered that the term might be misleading, since NoOps doesn't mean that the enterprise will no longer need operations at all. NoOps is a concept that leverages automation to its maximum potential. By automating development, deployment, and operations, scarce IT talent can focus on new features, since NoOps will help them by identifying and solving issues in IT systems fast. We've learned that NoOps (like AIOps) uses AI and ML. But NoOps also means that enterprises will need to embrace the shift-left mentality.

We've also learned that NoOps requires a specific type of architecture for heuristic automation: applying iterative solutions, learning from these solutions, and continuously improving them. We also discussed the different components of heuristic automation. In the final section, we explored a possible roadmap from DevOps to NoOps. We concluded that we already have the...