More examples of operating first#

The Operate First concept is doing more than just improving operations in application sofware. Read this list of other projects and project types that are benefiting from operating first:

  • Upstream and downstream - Kubevirt, CNV

  • Platforms - OpenShift, OpenStack

  • Features of those platforms - Istio, KubeVirt

  • Supporting services - ArgoCD, workloads

  • Cloud-native projects - Kubeflow, OpenDataHub

  • Workloads - community-hosted websites

  • Incubating community projects - SigStore, IBM Mesh-4-Data

  • Living reference architectures - MANUela edge demo

  • Software as a Service (SaaS) - RedHat Insights, Managed Kafka

  • Configuration data - deployment manifests

  • SRE content - SLI/SLOs, dashboards, scripts, and tools

  • Automation - bots, pipeline definitions

  • Operational data sets - logs, metrics, incidents

  • Architectural decision records - documents describing a thought process

  • Community building - enabling contribution and growing talent