DevOps Maturity Assessment ⚙️
Evaluate your organization's DevOps capabilities across 5 critical dimensions and receive a personalized improvement roadmap.
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CI/CD Pipeline 1. How do you build and deploy code?
Manual builds and FTP/RDP deployments
Some CI automation (e.g., Jenkins, GitHub Actions) but manual deploy steps
Fully automated CI/CD with staging and production pipelines 2. How often do you deploy to production?
Monthly or less frequently
Weekly or bi-weekly releases
Multiple times per day with feature flags 3. What happens when a deployment fails?
Manual hotfix — all hands on deck, often takes hours
Rollback scripts exist but require manual execution
Automated rollback with canary/blue-green deployment strategy 4. How do you provision new environments?
Manually configured servers via console/SSH
Scripts and templates (CloudFormation, ARM) but not fully version-controlled
Full IaC with Terraform/Pulumi, version-controlled and peer-reviewed 5. How do you manage configuration and secrets?
Hardcoded in code or stored in plain text files
Environment variables with basic secrets management
Vault/AWS Secrets Manager with rotation policies and audit logging 6. Can you recreate your entire infrastructure from scratch?
No — too many manual steps and undocumented configurations
Partially — core services are automated but some manual setup needed
Yes — one command spins up a full environment with all dependencies 7. What monitoring do you have in place?
Basic health checks — we find out about issues from users
APM tools (Datadog, New Relic) with alerting on key metrics
Full observability stack — metrics, logs, traces, SLOs, and dashboards 8. How do you handle incident response?
Ad-hoc — whoever notices the problem starts debugging
On-call rotation with runbooks for common issues
Structured incident management with automated escalation, war rooms, and blameless postmortems 9. How quickly can you identify the root cause of a production issue?
Hours to days — requires manual log digging across systems
Under an hour — centralized logging and dashboards help
Minutes — distributed tracing pinpoints issues across microservices 10. When does security testing happen?
At the end (or not at all) — security is an afterthought
Periodic scans and penetration tests (quarterly/annually)
Shift-left — SAST, DAST, and dependency scanning in every PR 11. How do you manage container/image security?
We don't use containers, or images are pulled from public repos without scanning
Private registry with basic image scanning
Signed images, automated CVE scanning, and policy-as-code enforcement 12. Do you have compliance automation?
Manual compliance checks and documentation
Some automated compliance checks with manual reporting
Continuous compliance with automated evidence collection and audit trails 13. How is ownership structured between Dev and Ops?
Siloed — developers throw code over the wall to operations
Shared responsibility for deployments but separate teams
You build it, you run it — cross-functional teams own the full lifecycle 14. How do you share knowledge and document processes?
Tribal knowledge — key info lives in people's heads
Wiki/Confluence with some documentation, but often outdated
Living docs, ADRs, internal tech talks, and automated runbook generation 15. How do you approach failure and learning?
Blame-oriented — individuals are held responsible for outages
Post-incident reviews happen but actions rarely get completed
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