Fix DevOps: Take These 5 Steps Today!

DevOps DevOps DevOps,,,,,,, Why everyone is talking about it now?

They say 'Do DevOps' and I am like ...LOL

Is it so easy? Let's discuss some facts that we should know before moving to DevOps and their impact.

So, we all want to DevOps because it's cool and trendy. Is that your answer? If so then stop thinking about it, it's not what you think it is.

Before taking your initial step to do DevOps, ask yourself, why do you need DevOps? and set the goals and objectives properly.

STEP 1: The 6 C's DevOps Cycle

You need to know the DevOps cycle,

> Continuous Business Planning

This starts with identifying the skills, outcomes, and resources needed.

> Collaborative Development

This starts with development sketch plan and programming.

> Continuous Testing

Unit and integration testing help increase the efficiency and speed of the development.

> Continuous Release and Deployment

A nonstop CD pipeline will help you implement code reviews and developer check-ins easily.

> Continuous Monitoring

This is needed to monitor changes and address errors and mistakes spontaneously whenever they happen.

> Customer Feedback and Optimization

This allows for an immediate response from your customers for your product and its features and helps you modify accordingly.

You can read more about this here '6 C's of DevOps Cycle'

STEP 2: Know Different Tools for DevOps Success

Your organization should be willing to change and open to the challenges ahead. DevOps is not a set of tools but to do DevOps, you need some incredible tools and it's top management's responsibility to make sure a proper training is given to the Developers by the experts on the transition that is going to happen in the organization. So, your developers should be well versed with some tools used to do DevOps,

Tools include,

> GitHub

> Ansible

> Docker

> JIRA

> AWS

> Shippable

> Slack

STEP 3: Deploy Frequently and Automatically

DevOps adoption means that you are willing to change fast, develop fast, test fast, fail fast, recover fast, learn fast, and push the product fast to the market.

Your developers must know the fact that, now they deploy frequently and automatically with rapid release cycles.

STEP 4: Containers and Microservices Architecture

It's obvious that you are moving towards the advanced technology by doing DevOps where automation is the key. To support the automation process, you need to make sure you have leveraged containers and microservices architecture. These facts make automation process easy and efficient.

STEP 5: Constant Communication Between The Teams

Constant communication is one of the best qualities of an amazing team. Clear and constant communication brings visibility and will let you know who is doing what and what’s going on between the teams in an organization, it can be about the project status, incident management etc. Slack is one tool that’s taking this very seriously by enabling teams to collaborate and constantly communicate with each other. 

So, if you are already practicing DevOps or in the initial stages of adopting, take a look at these steps and make sure you are on a right path.