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The DevOps Standard: a free official book from DevOps Institute

DevOps has been widely adopted but never consistently defined. DevOps Institute now has an answer: The DevOps Standard, an official book that is free to download.

By Claudio Restaino ·

17Chapters
FreeDigital version
AI-nativeBy design

What it is

A vendor-neutral model for DevOps in an AI-driven world, written by and for the DevOps community. It is digital and free: you fill in a short form on PeopleCert’s DevOps Standard page and receive the download link by email.

What’s inside

  • The state of DevOps today, and what DevOps is
  • AI-native DevOps
  • The DevOps Institute Operating Model
  • Leadership and collaborative culture; design for DevOps
  • Continuous integration and testing; continuous delivery and deployment
  • Elastic infrastructure and platform engineering
  • Continuous security; monitoring and observability
  • Assessing where you are, a transformation playbook, measuring what matters
  • DevOps at scale, future horizons, next steps

The idea behind it

Writing code faster with AI does not by itself deliver better outcomes. The book adds validation, security, observability, evidence and human accountability to the delivery model.

Who should read it: leaders and executives, practitioners and engineers, and consultants, assessors, auditors and educators.

A date to note

Value Stream Management Foundation v1.0 vouchers could be bought until 30 September 2026. The last exam date, Take2 included, is 30 September 2027. Version 2.0 replaces it.

Questions people ask

Is The DevOps Standard really free?

Yes. The digital version is free after a short registration.

Is it the syllabus for DevOps Foundation?

No. It is a reference model. The certification exams have their own syllabi; see our DevOps Foundation exam guide.

Ready to certify?

Try free DevOps questions, then get your exam voucher.

Free mock exams
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