Operational Excellence

Design Principle

• Perform operations with code

• Align operations processes to business objectives

• Make regular, small, incremental changes

• Test for responses to unexpected events

• Learn from operational events and failures

• Keep operations procedures current

Operation Excellence in the cloud consists of

• Preparation

  • Make use of CloudFormation, auto scaling, AWS Config, tagging

• Operation

  • Having Runbooks (daily routine), Playbooks (unexpected operational event handling)

  • CI/CD

• Response