Managing infrastructure as a flexible resource

Finally, a successful DevOps team treats its servers and infrastructure as cattle, not as pets. This means that infrastructure is spun up when needed and disregarded as soon as it is not needed anymore. The ability to do this is fueled by configuration and infrastructure as code. This might even go so far as creating a new production environment for every new deployment and just deleting the old production environment after switching all traffic from the old environment to the new one.

Besides keeping these DevOps practices and habits in mind, there are certain stages that you will go through while trying to move to a DevOps culture in your organization. The next section will take you through it.