DevOps and its Philosophy : Education Matters!
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DevOps processes comply with principles and offer practices with main objective to support efficiently the evolution of IT systems. To be efficient a DevOps process relies on a set of integrated tools. DevOps is the first required competency together with Agile Method required by the industry. DevOps processes are sharing many aspects with microservices approaches especially the modularity and flexibility which enables continuous change and delivery. As a new approach it is necessary to developp and offer to the academy and to the industry training programs to prepare our engineers in the best possible way. In this chapter we present the main aspects of the educational effort made in the recent years to educate to the concepts and values of the DevOps philosophy. This includes principles, practices, tools and architectures, primarily the Microservice architectural style. Two experiences have been made, one at academic level as a master program course and the other, as an industrial training. Based on those two experiences, we provide a comparative analysis and some proposals in order to develop and improve DevOps education for the future.
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