# Create DevOps Playbook for Common Scenarios
Act as an Engineering Director creating a DevOps playbook.
## DevOps Playbook Overview
**Purpose**: Standardize DevOps practices and procedures across teams
**Scope**: [Infrastructure, deployment, monitoring, operations]
**Audience**: [DevOps engineers, SREs, platform engineers]
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## 1. Infrastructure Provisioning
### Cloud Infrastructure Setup
**Infrastructure as Code**:
- [ ] Use [Terraform/CloudFormation/etc.]
- [ ] Version control infrastructure code
- [ ] Review infrastructure changes
- [ ] Test infrastructure changes
**Environment Creation**:
- **Development**: [Setup procedure]
- **Staging**: [Setup procedure]
- **Production**: [Setup procedure]
**Resource Tagging**:
- [ ] Standard tags: [List]
- [ ] Cost allocation tags
- [ ] Environment tags
- [ ] Owner tags
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## 2. Deployment Procedures
### CI/CD Pipeline
**Pipeline Stages**:
1. [ ] Build: [What happens]
2. [ ] Test: [What happens]
3. [ ] Security scan: [What happens]
4. [ ] Deploy to staging: [What happens]
5. [ ] Integration tests: [What happens]
6. [ ] Deploy to production: [What happens]
**Deployment Strategies**:
- **Blue-Green**: [Procedure]
- **Canary**: [Procedure]
- **Rolling**: [Procedure]
- **Feature Flags**: [Usage]
**Deployment Checklist**:
- [ ] Code review approved
- [ ] Tests passing
- [ ] Security scans clean
- [ ] Documentation updated
- [ ] Rollback plan ready
- [ ] On-call notified
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## 3. Monitoring & Observability
### Monitoring Setup
**Metrics to Monitor**:
- [ ] System metrics (CPU, memory, disk)
- [ ] Application metrics (latency, errors, throughput)
- [ ] Business metrics (revenue, user activity)
- [ ] Custom metrics (application-specific)
**Logging Strategy**:
- [ ] Log aggregation: [Tool]
- [ ] Log retention: [Duration]
- [ ] Log levels: [Configuration]
- [ ] Structured logging: [Format]
**Alerting Configuration**:
- [ ] Alert thresholds defined
- [ ] Alert routing configured
- [ ] On-call escalation setup
- [ ] Alert fatigue prevention
**Dashboards**:
- [ ] System health dashboard
- [ ] Application performance dashboard
- [ ] Business metrics dashboard
- [ ] Custom dashboards as needed
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## 4. Security Practices
### Security Hardening
**Access Control**:
- [ ] Principle of least privilege
- [ ] Multi-factor authentication
- [ ] Regular access reviews
- [ ] Secrets management
**Security Scanning**:
- [ ] Dependency scanning: [Tool/schedule]
- [ ] Container scanning: [Tool/schedule]
- [ ] Infrastructure scanning: [Tool/schedule]
- [ ] Penetration testing: [Schedule]
**Incident Response**:
- [ ] Security incident playbook
- [ ] Security team contact
- [ ] Isolation procedures
- [ ] Reporting requirements
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## 5. Cost Management
### Cost Optimization
**Resource Management**:
- [ ] Right-size resources
- [ ] Use reserved instances where appropriate
- [ ] Auto-scaling configured
- [ ] Idle resource cleanup
**Cost Monitoring**:
- [ ] Cost allocation tags
- [ ] Budget alerts
- [ ] Regular cost reviews
- [ ] Cost optimization recommendations
**Cost Reporting**:
- [ ] Monthly cost reports
- [ ] Cost per team/service
- [ ] Cost trends analysis
- [ ] Budget planning
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## 6. Disaster Recovery
### Backup & Recovery
**Backup Strategy**:
- [ ] Database backups: [Schedule]
- [ ] Configuration backups: [Schedule]
- [ ] Code backups: [Version control]
- [ ] Backup verification: [Schedule]
**Disaster Recovery**:
- [ ] Recovery Time Objective (RTO): [Target]
- [ ] Recovery Point Objective (RPO): [Target]
- [ ] Failover procedures: [Documented]
- [ ] Recovery testing: [Schedule]
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## 7. Capacity Planning
### Scaling Strategy
**Auto-Scaling**:
- [ ] Horizontal scaling: [Configuration]
- [ ] Vertical scaling: [Configuration]
- [ ] Scaling policies: [Defined]
- [ ] Scaling metrics: [Monitored]
**Capacity Planning**:
- [ ] Resource growth projections
- [ ] Peak usage analysis
- [ ] Capacity reviews: [Schedule]
- [ ] Scaling recommendations
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## 8. Documentation Standards
### Documentation Requirements
**Required Documentation**:
- [ ] Architecture diagrams
- [ ] Runbooks for common tasks
- [ ] Deployment procedures
- [ ] Troubleshooting guides
- [ ] API documentation
**Documentation Maintenance**:
- [ ] Update after changes
- [ ] Review quarterly
- [ ] Keep versioned
- [ ] Make accessible
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## 9. Operational Excellence
### Best Practices
**Reliability**:
- [ ] Service Level Objectives (SLOs): [Defined]
- [ ] Error budgets: [Configured]
- [ ] Reliability reviews: [Schedule]
**Change Management**:
- [ ] Change approval process
- [ ] Change windows
- [ ] Rollback procedures
- [ ] Change documentation
**Incident Management**:
- [ ] Incident response procedures
- [ ] Post-incident reviews
- [ ] Action item tracking
- [ ] Continuous improvement
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## 10. Team Collaboration
### DevOps Culture
**Cross-Functional Collaboration**:
- [ ] Regular sync meetings
- [ ] Shared on-call rotation
- [ ] Knowledge sharing sessions
- [ ] Blameless postmortems
**Continuous Learning**:
- [ ] Tool training
- [ ] Best practice sharing
- [ ] Conference attendance
- [ ] Internal tech talks
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## Success Metrics
**DevOps Metrics**:
- Deployment frequency
- Lead time for changes
- Mean time to recovery (MTTR)
- Change failure rate
**Goals**:
- [ ] Increase deployment frequency
- [ ] Reduce lead time
- [ ] Improve reliability
- [ ] Reduce change failure rate