BevOps

“BevOps applies DevOps principles to brewing to improve repeatability, observability, and continuous improvement while preserving the creativity and experimentation that make homebrewing enjoyable.”

Brew → Iterate → Improve → Enjoy

Overview

BevOps is a framework that applies DevOps-inspired principles to brewing in order to improve repeatability, observability, and continuous improvement while preserving the creativity that makes homebrewing enjoyable.

The purpose of BevOps is not to eliminate creativity from brewing. The purpose of BevOps is to document creativity so it can be repeated, improved, and shared.

Core Concepts

• Beer Development Life Cycle (BDLC)
• Semantic Fermentioning (SemFer)
• Release Notes
• Service Level Indicators and Objectives (SLI/SLO)
• Brewing Operations Reliability Assessment (BORA)
• Incident Reports

Documentation

• Philosophy
• Beer Development Life Cycle
• Semantic Fermentioning
• Release Notes
• SLI/SLO
• BORA
• Incident Reports
• Infrastructure Roadmap
• Observability & Metrics
• Glossary

Current Version

v0.1.0-alpha

Status

Active development.

Philosophy

Readers should take the principles documented in BevOps as guidelines and not hard, fast rules. The goal of BevOps is to establish principles at a high level while leaving room for flexibility in how they are implemented.

For the full handbook, start with the documentation links above.