Streamlining software delivery with DevOps: insights, tools and best practices

Streamlining software delivery with DevOps: insights, tools and best practices

DevOps is a complex organizational practice covering a wide range of expertise, including Infrastructure as Code, Continuous Integration and Delivery (CI/CD), configuration management, site reliability, cloud services adoption, and more. It encourages collaboration and communication between development and operations teams to streamline software development and improve quality. While being extremely useful for organizations seeking transformation, DevOps requires profound expertise.?

In our new digest, we’ve gathered the latest DevOps insights, tips, trends, and success stories from N-iX top DevOps experts.

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"DevOps adoption is essential for modern enterprises that allows them to thrive in the fast-paced and competitive tech landscape. By embracing DevOps principles and practices, organizations can unlock the power of automation, collaboration, and continuous delivery, enabling them to deliver innovative software solutions with speed, quality, and efficiency,” shares Oleksii Piantak , DevOps Engineer at N-iX.

DevOps in action: recent statistics and trends

  • The global DevOps market size was valued at $6.78 billion in 2020, and is projected to reach $57.90 billion by 2030, registering a CAGR of 24.2% from 2021 to 2030. (Allied Market Research)
  • In 2023, the upward trend of DevOps adoption continues, with 83% of teams currently using or planning to adopt CI/CD. (Gearset)
  • The four metrics of software delivery performance — lead time for changes (time from code commit to release in production), deployment frequency, change failure rate, time to restore a service, and reliability is a metric for operational performance. (Google’s 2022 State of DevOps report)
  • Teams that combine version control and continuous delivery are 2.5x more likely to have high software delivery performance than teams that only focus on one. (Google’s 2022 State of DevOps report)
  • The AIOps market is growing with a projected market size of about $2.1 billion in 2025 at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of around 19%. (Gartner)
  • In the future, cross-functional teams, from business stakeholders to operational site reliability engineers (SREs), will organize around products, delivering business value via DevOps platforms. (Forrester)

Insights from N-iX DevOps experts

1. 6 steps to successful DevOps transformation

DevOps transformation allows businesses to optimize costs and streamline their software delivery. To properly achieve such transformation, organizations need to utilize third-party services, automate IT infrastructure provisioning and CI/CD processes, optimize cloud resource costs, and more.

The process of completing the DevOps transformation strategy can be split into 6 steps. Each of these steps requires careful preparation and execution. Read on to discover these key steps, success stories and more.

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KPIs for DevOps transformation

2. 5 best practices for building an effective CI/CD pipeline

Continuous delivery (CD) is a practice where code changes are prepared for a release to production automatically. It expands upon continuous integration (CI) by deploying all changes to a testing environment. Continuous integration, delivery, and deployment are the gold standard of software development. Done well, a CI/CD pipeline speeds up releases, reducing overall development costs. Find out 5 best practices for building an effective CI/CD pipeline.??

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3. Infrastructure as Code: tips, best practices, and top tools

Infrastructure as Code (IaC) is one of the most crucial and popular DevOps techniques that accelerates software development, boosts scalability, and optimizes costs. IaC is the DevOps practice of managing and provisioning cloud infrastructure using a code-based approach instead of doing it manually. However, its implementation does not come without challenges. Learn more about best practices and tools of IaC implementation.

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4. DevOps consulting as a key to your business efficiency

Many enterprises ramping up innovation, optimization, and effectiveness opt for DevOps consultancy. Seasoned DevOps experts will advise you on tech decisions that provide your business with flexibility crucial in the world of ever-changing requirements. Discover how you can benefit from professional DevOps consulting, what are the main consulting stages, and see some real-life success stories in an article.?

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5. AIOps use cases: how to automate and streamline your IT operations

AIOps (Artificial Intelligence for IT operations) is transforming the way IT operations work, automating tasks and reducing the time needed to resolve issues. It can be used for establishing effective predictive maintenance, root-cause analysis, performance monitoring, DevOps adoption and more. FInd out more about how to automate and streamline your IT operations with AIOps.??

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6. Cloud DevOps: how a single engineer can make or break your project

Cloud DevOps is the work approach that allows you to build, test, and deploy new updates and offerings more quickly. Cloud DevOps engineer helps you set up the processes (e.g., build a CI/CD pipeline) or assess your current processes, offers ways to improve them, and helps you implement all the necessary changes. In our article, N-iX DevOps experts discuss how to benefit from Cloud DevOps, what are the main stages, and when you may need DevOps professionals.

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Success stories of our clients

1. Successful DevOps transformation journey in telecom

Our client is one of Europe's fastest-growing mobile virtual network operators. They needed to optimize their existing delivery pipeline, as their development process was prone to delays and errors caused by the human factor.

N-iX skilled DevOps engineers performed an extensive evaluation of the company's existing infrastructure and provided a detailed DevOps transformation roadmap. In several months, the pipeline was completely transformed and many processes were automated, including communication, task assignment between the teams, and more.?

The DevOps transformation services provided by N-iX allowed the company to significantly increase the development speed and reduce the number of errors.

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2. Streamlining operations and optimizing costs in energy

Our client, one of the UK’s largest energy suppliers, wanted to make their internal systems and processes more efficient to better serve their growing customer base.

After a profound consulting stage, the N-iX team provided DevOps services to the client’s solution from scratch. We set up the CI/CD processes and worked with all of the client's in-house experts. Our team has built the following technical PoCs: Kubernetes usage, DevOps artifacts PoC, and dependency management.??

Together with N-iX, this client was able to: save up to 70% of operational costs, decrease infrastructure expenses by up to 50%, accelerate insurance processes and time to market, decrease the manual work, and more.

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3. Improving performance and scalability of Orbus products to drive innovation

Orbus Software is a leading software solution provider that enhances application portfolio management, business process analysis, and enterprise architecture capabilities. The company had to rely heavily on an extensive manual QC team which slowed down its development processes.

N-iX provided experienced DevOps specialists who helped to migrate the client’s legacy on-premise infrastructure to Infrastructure as Code and implemented automated CI/CD processes into the delivery pipeline. This significantly increased the speed and reliability of development and helped Orbus optimize costs by decreasing its need for manual QC.

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4. Optimizing costs and operations for enterprise-grade IoT service provider

One of the world’s largest IoT service providers needed to modernize and expand the functionality of their legacy IoT device and asset-tracking SaaS platform.

The N-iX team migrated the on-premise infrastructure to the cloud, made new infrastructure cloud-agnostic, built efficient CI/CD pipelines, and implemented various third-party integrations.

As a result, N-iX has helped the client optimize costs by migrating the platform to the cloud, achieve more flexibility avoiding vendor lock-in, improve platform efficiency, and more.

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Reinvent your development processes with N-iX DevOps services!

At N-iX, we provide full-cycle DevOps services — from configuration management, Infrastructure as a Code establishment, CI/CD integration to infrastructure automation, orchestration, monitoring, logging, and more. With a strong team of 45+ DevOps experts, we have successfully delivered over 50 DevOps implementation projects across various industries. Moreover, N-iX is an AWS Advanced Tier Partner, Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, and Google Cloud Platform Partner.

Learn more about N-iX DevOps expertise and contact us!

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