Roadmap to Implement Enterprise DevOps in 2021
DevOps is fundamentally a process that consists of automated build, deployment ,testing, security and management of the backend code of a software. While the developers write the code and add new features, DevOps teams ensure the stability of all the systems that run the software. It's a continuous process as you can see in it's lifecycle diagram.
However, implementing Enterprise DevOps can be a challenging task. Below are some of the main goals of implementing Enterprise DevOps :
First and foremost step of planning for Enterprise DevOps implementation is identifying the gaps in existing processes and application stacks. So, one sample application can be taken from each stack to be onboarded in the DevOps Platform as Pilot and then comes the testing part.
The process of delivering client value needs aligning the business needs with your delivery process of your software. This would include, streamlining the existing processes, removing constraints and manual work wherever possible, and an increase in stakeholder’s visibility throughout all value streams. This sounds really hard task in the beginning but as you start the journey and progresses through it ,you will feel the difference in the delivery process and the overall timelines.
At Present, the speed of arrival of new technologies is shocking. The good news is that the speed of change of systems and quality of delivery can now go hand-in-hand, therefore companies should adopt DevOps implementations that help increase agility, performance, and security. For being on the competitive era, organizations require both speed as well as quality as they are making the transition to a culture where quality along with security is integrated with each and every aspect. Therefore, you must be providing an environment where your business team has the confidence to act aggressively without fearing repercussions of facing several risks in terms of security, quality of product.
One of main goals of DevOps is doing continuous process improvement and part of which can be done through automation of infra tasks, creating standard templates for pipelines, release automations, testing and many more.
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With the increase in no. of environments, processes, builds and releases , there needs to have a centralized dashboard for monitoring all the activities going across environments for better trackability.
As part of long term commitment and making resilient application platform, Disaster Recovery and High Availability must be ensured at all level. You must be hearing new buzz words around Chaos Engineering. The goal of chaos engineering is to identify weakness in a system through controlled experiments that introduce random and unpredictable behavior. As a result, highly available platform can be achieved.
With the use of several feedback, code review and vulnerability assessment tools, we can identify the the loopholes and vulnerability in our code base at earlier stage in development cycle. This gives us some time to fix issues and get the product compliant with the standards.
In order to get long-term benefit from implementing DevOps ,organizations should have strong work review processes in place, be it code review process or change in existing process or automation.
Another aspect is increasing more collaboration within the teams and setting up standard communication channels through email notifications or other mediums.
Achieving a proper DevOps is a continuous and long-term commitment. Even though there are factors such as KPIs and metrics that can be easily monitored, a satisfactory level of implementation can take time to achieve and to quantify. Implementation of DevOps practices is a significant task that needs making significant changes to the development structure of an organization. If executed correctly, the advantages of this new method of execution are amazing and the results show significant improvement with regards to the delivery of upgraded software to the end-users.