DevOps Goal Examples
Need inspiration setting DevOps goals? Check out the examples below to get started.
Including contributions from The Managing Dev and Stack.io.
See more Engineering goalsEnsure your application is scanned for vulnerabilities on a regular basis
Automated scans for known or common vulnerabilities can protect us from many easy security flaws. Let’s ensure we’re keeping our system security up to date.
Ensure your internal network is hardened against network vulnerabilities
Audit your network to ensure only public endpoints are accessible from external networks within a sprint cycle.
Ensure your network is guarded against DDOS attacks by implementing a DDOS mitigation solution
More than one third of US businesses experienced DDoS attacks in the past 12 months. Let’s make sure we’re able to protect ourselves before the next one hits us.
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Implement a trending system to monitor key time series infrastructure data
In order to stay agile and scale our systems as needed, we first need to understand the trends within our systems.
Ensure 100% of critical public end points are monitored and alerted within a sprint cycle with basic protocol check
In case there is an issue with our systems, let’s ensure we’re the first to know about it.
Ensure 100% of critical systems are backed up nightly within a quarter
To mitigate against irreversible damage to our systems let’s ensure we have accurate and timely backups of critical systems to limit data loss.
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Shortened lead time between fixes
Things will break. Bugs will happen. However, let’s ensure we’re set up to rapidly fix issues as a team so we can deliver a great experience.
Faster mean time to recovery
As things fail or break, it’s important that we’re quick to fix things. Let’s work on improving our average time to recovery by the end of the quarter.
Lower failure rate of new releases
Our team is constantly releasing new features, deploying bug fixes, etc. Let’s ensure that, with an increase in releases, we focus on lowering our current failure rate.
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Improve deployment frequency
High-performing DevOps teams deploy often and with confidence. Let's build the muscle of frequent deployments to ensure pace and confidence remains high.
Improve your network outside of your team
Great people work here and you should meet them all. Reach out to people outside your team to grow your network and hear from the different perspectives from the people that are part of our company.
Continue to build your technical knowledge
Spend some time this quarter building on your technical knowledge by learning from others.
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Implement an APM system for our team
When 💩 hits the fan, a DevOps engineer is called into action to navigate the logs, monitors, and alerts to troubleshoot the issue. Application level tooling is paramount in the successful DevOps engineer stack and should be implemented this quarter.
Increase the data security and integrity of our products
Information security is incredibly important to a business and often overlooked in the early stages of development. Ensuring we have a best in class product experience from the bare metal out, starts with the protection of our data.
Increase application efficiencies
Our code can only run as fast as the hardware and support systems that it runs on. By keeping our tooling up-to-date with the latest patches and version bumps, we ensure we benefit from the community's efforts.
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