Challenge 1 (Establish your plan)

Challenge Your challenge is to organize your team and establish a high level view of the workflow that you will implement during the rest of the event to achieve zero downtime deployment.

Based on your knowledge of the application and its architecture, your team must establish the fundamental processes that need to be followed in order to go from code to production. You are expected to focus only on a basic integration and deployment mechanism that takes into consideration the architecture of the application.

Get familiar with the basic building blocks of a successful DevOps workflow and be aware that your current plan may change over the course of the event.

This is a good time to think of the following aspects:

Each API will potentially have a different life cycle. Your process should aim at minimizing the time it takes to deploy a feature into production. You want to be able to prioritize your tasks. Small changes are easier to deploy. Success Criteria Present your workflow and initial organization of the team that you have collectively agreed on to your coach. Take time to explain in detail how you aim to validate one phase before you move to the next one.

Be ready to answer the following questions:

What aspects of DevOps are you implementing? How are you splitting the work amongst the team? How do you keep track of your work in progress? How will you communicate amongst the team (Verbal, Teams, Slack, etc.)?