DevOps for Small Shops

A DevOps Guide for the Little Guys

Turn a 3‑person IT scramble into a smooth, always‑shipping engine—without enterprise budgets or endless consultants.

Your reality

  • You run a tiny IT team that does everything: laptops, servers, builds, releases, middle‑of‑the‑night fixes.

  • Legacy scripts, manual checklists, and tribal “don’t‑touch‑that” knowledge keep you in firefight mode.

  • New features stall, upgrades slip, burnout hovers.

Sound familiar? That’s the exact trench this book was written in.

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  • Learn the context where DevOps evolved and emereged

  • Understand how to leverage the common themes in DevOps to your advantage!

  • Review our section on what do when you hit challenges in your implementation.

  • "The best ideas survive because they are the strongest, the most adaptable, and the most able to thrive in a competitive environment."

  • "To learn and at due times to repeat what one has learned, is this not a pleasure?” - Confucius

  • "Memes are to culture what genes are to life. Just as biological evolution is driven by the survival of the fittest genes in the gene pool, cultural evolution may be driven by the most successful memes." Richard Dawkins

  • "The best way to predict the future is to create it." - Peter Drucker

What’s inside

  1. Why DevOps survived the hype cycle
    The evolutionary history that proves it works—and why it scales down, not just up.

  2. The Small‑Shop Playbook
    Lean, Agile, and DevOps boiled to first‑principles you can apply next sprint.

  3. Troubleshooting the usual nightmares
    Legacy change control, ticket backlogs, “but security said no”—step‑by‑step fixes.

Built for your constraints

  • No extra headcount required

  • Free/open‑source tool stack spotlighted

  • Case stories from teams with <10 engineers who cut incidents 70 % and doubled deploy frequency

Stop firefighting. Start shipping.

Grab your copy now—ebook or paperback—and give your small shop the same reliability and speed the big players pay millions for.

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Unleash big‑league flow on a small‑team budget.