DevOps checklist for bootstrapping new projects

Starting out a new project? Make sure you add these into your DevOps workflow as your project grows. This may also be a good starting point if you just started learning DevOps.

Dev automation

• Environment setup for local development

Pull request automation

• Automated unit test running with code coverage
• Linting
• Automated security scanning
• Automated E2E test running
• Ephemeral environments: for PR Reviewers, QA, Designers, PMs
• Notifications to PR Author/Reviewers

Deployment automation

• Continuous Staging: Mirror prod environment for QA, Designers, PMs
• Zero downtime deployment: Blue-Green deployments/Rolling deployments
• Feature flagging/Canary deployments
• Roll back mechanism
• Autoscaling

Application Performance Management (APM)

• Log aggregation: e.g. Logstash + ElasticSearch + Kibana
• Metrics: e.g. Prometheus
• Error tracking: e.g. Sentry
• Monitoring: Take the metrics and logs and convert them into health metrics e.g. Grafana
• Uptime status: e.g. Pingdom
• Alerting: e.g. PagerDuty