In 2023, watch out for these 7 Devops related trends.

Since its ideation, most of us have already recognized that DevOps has unique potential and will revolutionize the tech industry.

The DevOps industry is supposed to grow at a CAGR of 24.7% from 2019 to 2026, reaching a value of $ 20.01 billion so DevOps in digital transformation?is bound to bring revolutionary changes in various industries.

DevOps enables open communication, transparency, increased customer experience, improved quality, and faster-to-market project delivery. Caseless transformation, new trends, and practices are making DevOps an exciting place to be right now and also in the future. With the increase in cloud-native tools, the DevOps approach is becoming more and more prevalent. We are also seeing a strong inclination towards the adoption of AI/ML, automation and security becoming part of the CI/CD pipeline.

In this blog, we have tried to put together the latest DevOps trends that will shape the future.

1.???GitOps

GitOps is a recent addition to DevOps workflow which helps teams to automate and control infrastructure. Based on the Kubernetes paradigm, GitOps enables application deployments and updates in a more automated, reliable, and secure manner. GitOps applies DevOps practices, such as collaboration, version control, AI, compliance, and CI/CD, to the infrastructure of automation. It allows to develop, test, and deploy software quickly to facilitate releases with efficiency and speed.?

2.???Kubernetes

Kubernetes is an extensible and portable open-source platform that manages containerized services and workloads. It simplifies the process of deploying, scaling and managing containerized applications on a cluster of Linux hosts, allowing developers to scale up or down on the resources. It was designed by Google and contributed to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF).

The adoption of Kubernetes is progressively increasing because it has a large active community who are continuously contributing to make it even more effective. It also has strong support from major cloud providers like Google Cloud, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, Oracle Cloud and Alibaba Cloud.

3.????Security Automation

In CI/CD pipeline, security automation ensures that code is tested for vulnerabilities and other security issues before it gets deployed to production. Including security automation in CI/CD pipeline confirms that only code that has passed all security checks is released to the production environment.?It creates a secure pipeline that allows for quick and efficient deployment of code without compromising security.

The integration of AI/ML in the software development lifecycle is also becoming more prevalent as the models are developed to detect potential issues in the code and give suggestions to make it better. Many organizations are understanding the importance of security automation and adopting it in their CI/CD pipeline because it saves engineering time and reduces the overall cloud cost.

4.????Chaos Engineering

Chaos Engineering is about understanding the behaviour of different systems and applications under extreme conditions. Testing the resilience of systems and applications with Chaos Engineering enables creating statistics around how systems and applications will behave under extreme conditions. A chaotic environment makes it difficult to predict how a system will behave in response to certain inputs. If we develop systems and test them by running controlled?chaos experiments, they are bound to be more reliable and resilient in the production environment.

5.????Multi-cloud deployments

Multi-cloud deployments are becoming more prevalent with new-age enterprises because, with multi-cloud deployments, they can adopt digital in a more robust way, reduce costs, and increase the efficiency of their overall system. Multi-cloud deployments are a cloud computing architecture where applications and services are deployed across multiple cloud providers instead of one single cloud provider. It enables harnessing the diverse resources and services of multiple cloud providers. Enterprises use this approach to ensure that they adopt the best-in-class services from each cloud provider. This strategy also makes sure that the cloud providers' services are always up and available, so there are much lesser chances of downtimes in critical applications and systems.?

6.????Low-code Application

Low-code application is an application created without coding and can be customized with drag-and-drop tools. It will help organizations to automate their business processes and deliver the systems with agility. This trend will also help enterprises to reduce their IT costs by eliminating the need for customized development and on-site maintenance. Low-code application also provides a scalable solution for managing emerging changes in business processes and workflows which are unavoidable in today’s dynamic market. Low-code application is certainly one of the trends that will impact the?future of DevOps and the overall IT industry.

7.????Microservices Architecture

Microservices architecture allows the development and deployment process to be more agile, flexible, and scalable. In this architecture, apps are broken down into smaller pieces (microservices) that can be developed and deployed independently. It also leads to the development of cloud-native applications that are capable of fulfilling any user demand. This approach enables enterprises to respond quickly to changing market conditions by adding new features or scaling up their operations with minimal changes and without impacting the other components of the system.

RGT enables automating the end-to-end delivery pipeline and providing DevOps tools to enable continuous development and integration across various cloud platforms.?To discuss the implementation of these DevOps trends to improve the speed, agility, and competitiveness of your platform, please write to our DevOps experts [email protected].