Before you do ANYTHING, you MUST have buy in from both the business operators and the dev team. If anyone doubts the the positive impact this updating will do, the effort will sour. This is the part of 'DevOps' that is often overlooked. Culture and faith are just as important as tools and process.
As the Agile Manifesto states it:
Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
Working software over comprehensive documentation
Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
Responding to change over following a plan
That being said. I have done exactly what you are talking about. I would take it a step further and deploy the application images to DEV, then Stage, then Production. I am a big supporter of environmental parity. Deployment to Dev is the same as Stage is the same as Prod.
Also, 100% agree with @goyo
; the team has to understand what the tech is doing being using fancy GUI's. Learn the tool, master the tool, abstract the tool.
If you would like any assistance, I am looking for some gig work ;).
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Before you do ANYTHING, you MUST have buy in from both the business operators and the dev team. If anyone doubts the the positive impact this updating will do, the effort will sour. This is the part of 'DevOps' that is often overlooked. Culture and faith are just as important as tools and process.
As the Agile Manifesto states it:
That being said. I have done exactly what you are talking about. I would take it a step further and deploy the application images to DEV, then Stage, then Production. I am a big supporter of environmental parity. Deployment to Dev is the same as Stage is the same as Prod.
Also, 100% agree with @goyo ; the team has to understand what the tech is doing being using fancy GUI's. Learn the tool, master the tool, abstract the tool.
If you would like any assistance, I am looking for some gig work ;).