This document discusses different team topologies for DevOps organizations. It identifies nine types of effective topologies and several "anti-types" that are ineffective. The types range from embedded collaboration between Dev and Ops to dedicated DevOps teams to infrastructure-as-a-service models. There is no single right approach, as the optimal topology depends on the individual organization and needs.

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(effective team topologies)
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2. http://devopstopologies.com/

4. Anti-Type A – Separate Silos
Dev$ Ops$

5. Anti-Type B – Separate DevOps Silo
Dev$ Ops$DevOps$

6. Anti-Type C – “We Don’t Need Ops”
Dev$ Ops$DevOps$

7. Anti-Type D –
‘DevOps’ team as another Dev team
Dev$ Ops$
DevOps$

8. Anti-Type E –
DevOps as the new SysAdmin team
Dev$ Ops$DevOps$

9. Anti-Type F –
Ops embedded in a Dev Team
Dev$
Ops$
HT:$MaS$Franz$
(@seclectech)$
DevOps$

10. Anti-Type G – Dev-DBA gap!
Dev$ Ops$DBA$

11. Financial services
Online payments
Software tools
Publishing
Car hire
Legal software
Where?

13. Type 1 – Smooth Collaboration
Dev$ Ops$[DevOps]$

14. Type 2 – Fully Embedded
Dev$ Ops$

15. Type 3 – Infrastructure-as-a-Service
Dev$ Ops$[DevOps]$

16. Type 4 – DevOps-as-a-Service
Dev$ Ops$[DevOps]$

17. Type 5 – Temporary DevOps Team
Dev$ Ops$DevOps$

18. Type 6 – ‘Facilitating’ DevOps Team
Dev$ Ops$DevOps$

19. Type 7 – SRE Team (Google)
Dev$ Ops$
[DevOps]$
SRE$HT: @kwdhinde

20. Type 8 – ‘Just run my Containers’
Dev$ Ops$[DevOps]$
HT: @jascbu

21. Type 9 – DB capability in Dev
Dev$ Ops$DBA$
[DevOps]$
DB$Dev$

22. Type 9 – DB as a Service
Dev$ Ops$DBaaS$
[DevOps]$
DB$Dev$

23. Enterprise – multiple types
HT: @EricMinick, IBM

24. https://twitter.com/EricMinick/status/517335119330172930

25. There is no ‘right’ team topology,
but several ‘bad’ topologies for
any one organisation

26. http://devopstopologies.com/

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28. Matthew Skelton
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