FREE DEVOPS CHECKLIST

DevOps Audit
Checklist & Quick Diagnostic

Start with six business-focused questions, work through the 168-item online checklist, or request the separate 49-check PDF. Choose the depth that fits your next decision.

What's Inside:

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168 online checks across 10 categories
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Six-question diagnostic with immediate next steps
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Detailed coverage of IaC, CI/CD, Security & Compliance
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Evidence prompts for gaps and unknowns
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Separate project and ongoing support options
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Separate 49-check PDF across 8 categories
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Online Checks
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Quick Questions

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Six questions to find your next DevOps priority

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1. Have you restored a backup and checked how long recovery takes?
2. Can you identify who has production access and remove it when someone leaves?
3. Can your team deploy and roll back without depending on one person?
4. Do customer-impacting alerts reach a named person with a response plan?
5. Can you explain the largest cloud charges and detect unexpected increases?
6. Does your infrastructure work have an owner and a prioritized backlog?

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Items you have verified

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Checked items reflect your own review, not a maturity rating or certification. Some practices may not apply to your systems. Prioritize by business risk and evidence, not the number checked.

Areas to Review

Verify the basics
  • • Set up automated backups
  • • Enable MFA for production access
  • • Implement basic monitoring and alerting
  • • Create infrastructure documentation
Plan bounded improvements
  • • Migrate infrastructure to IaC
  • • Implement comprehensive CI/CD pipeline
  • • Set up log aggregation
  • • Perform security audit
Review ongoing operations
  • • Test deployment and rollback behavior
  • • Implement disaster recovery plan
  • • Optimize cloud costs
  • • Establish SRE practices

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Receive the separate 49-check PDF by email. It covers 8 categories and is a reusable worksheet, not a personalized report.

InstaDevOps Can Help

Discuss the gaps that affect your business, then agree a project or ongoing support scope.

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Close Critical Security Gaps

Implement best practices for security and compliance

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Automated CI/CD Pipelines

Automate releases and test rollback against agreed requirements

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Understand Cloud Spending

Review cost drivers and test improvements against your workload

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Set Reliability Targets

Agree service objectives and verify recovery paths

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Comprehensive Monitoring

Know what's happening before your users do

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Expert DevOps Team

Agree scope, availability, and ownership before work starts