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DevOps & Automation · Foundational

CALMS Framework

A DevOps maturity model covering Culture, Automation, Lean, Measurement, and Sharing.

Definition

CALMS is used to assess how well an organization has adopted DevOps. Culture covers collaboration and shared responsibility, Automation covers pipelines and IaC, Lean covers small batches and waste reduction, Measurement covers data-driven decisions, and Sharing covers knowledge and feedback across teams.

Example

A DevOps assessment finds strong automation but weak sharing because postmortems are never published outside the ops team.

Exam tip

Remember the acronym order and that the 'L' is Lean, not Logging.

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