EXIN DevOps Foundation case studies
EXIN DevOps Foundation · Put your knowledge to work in context.
The EXIN DevOps Foundation certification is a Foundation-level credential designed to give IT and business professionals basic knowledge and understanding of DevOps. EXIN positions it as a stepping-stone to the EXIN DevOps Professional certification, and it confirms that a candidate understands the origins of DevOps and the benefits of DevOps principles and practices for the organization. The EXIN DevOps Foundation case studies are 5 cases and about 3,556 words.
1The Thursday CAB and the 23-Day Lead Time
Northwind Mutual, a life insurer, runs 14 application teams. A one-line pricing fix enters the change advisory board queue on Monday and is approved - or bounced - at the Thursday CAB meeting.
720 words, about 4 min2Four Teams, One STAGE-2 Slot
A retail platform has four teams - search, checkout, payments and mobile - sharing one integration environment, STAGE-2, which can host only one release candidate at a time. Each team wants a slot twice per sprint; the booking queue is currently 11 days.
702 words, about 4 min3Eighteen-Day Feature Branches
Twelve developers on a Java service use GitFlow. Feature branches live 18 days on average, and develop is merged to main every six weeks at release time.
699 words, about 3 min4The Incident Report With a Name in It
A payments provider suffered a four-hour outage after a configuration change to a database connection pool. At 02:14 the alert fired and the on-call engineer was paged; the runbook had no entry for the symptom, so escalation to the database team happened at 03:40 and they joined at 04:10.
709 words, about 4 min5The Pilot That Stayed a Pilot
A bank's DevOps programme has run for 14 months across a scope of 40 teams. A central platform team built a Kubernetes-based pipeline; six teams use it, the rest still deploy through the old release process.
726 words, about 4 min