In the rapidly evolving landscape of software delivery, understanding your team's DevOps maturity isn't just helpful—it's strategic. Enter the DevOps Maturity Assessment, an open-source tool designed to quantify and improve development workflows through standardized evaluation. Available as both a CLI utility and web application, it offers organizations a consistent framework to benchmark their practices against industry standards.

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Why DevOps Maturity Matters

DevOps transformations often stall without clear metrics. Teams struggle to identify bottlenecks in their CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure automation, or collaboration practices. This tool addresses that gap through the DevOps Maturity Specification—a set of community-driven best practices that form the backbone of all assessments. Unlike subjective audits, it generates quantifiable scores and visual badges, enabling teams to:

  • Track progress across multiple assessments
  • Pinpoint specific improvement areas
  • Align stakeholders with objective benchmarks

Features That Drive Actionable Insights

The tool's dual-interface approach caters to different workflows:

  • Terminal Power: Developers launch interactive assessments directly via CLI (pip install devops-maturity followed by dm assess), receiving instant scores and maturity levels. shows the CLI's guided workflow.

  • Visual Dashboard: The web interface (launched locally via nox -s preview) provides historical tracking, visualizations, and team collaboration features. OAuth integration with GitHub and Google simplifies access management.

Core capabilities include customizable evaluation criteria, allowing organizations to adapt questions to their unique stack, and open extensibility via Python. The project's badges (like the PASSING shield) offer shareable proof of compliance.

The Open-Specification Advantage

By building on a standardized specification, the tool avoids vendor lock-in while promoting industry alignment. Teams can:

  1. Compare scores against peer organizations
  2. Contribute back to evolving criteria
  3. Integrate assessments into existing toolchains

The Apache 2.0 license further encourages adoption and modification, with community contributions actively welcomed.

Getting Started with Purpose

Initial setup takes minutes—install via PyPI (


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) for CLI use or clone the repo for web deployment. For teams beginning their DevOps journey, the tool offers more than a report card; it creates a roadmap for incremental improvement. As one contributor noted: "Maturity isn't a destination—it's the consistency of iteration." By making assessment accessible and actionable, this project reframes DevOps evolution from an abstract goal to a measurable practice.