Why you need to look into DevOps NOW!
I am sure that by now almost everyone has come across the term DevOps and more than half of us would have probably dismissed it thinking it sounds complicated or costly or maybe you thought it was another whirlwind technology. Well, let us try to bust a few myths and get to know more about the model and why organisations are adopting it.
Let’s start with talking about what exactly is a DevOps model?
It is basically an amalgamation of cultural philosophies, practices and tools which if implemented efficiently would effectively improve an organisation’s abilities and overall output. This is possible because it maximizes the velocity of delivering applications improving and evolving the products at a pace that is much faster than any organisation which use the traditional software development processes.
How does it work?
The first thing that should be brought to your attention is that DevOps eradicated the ‘silos’ between operations and development. Mostly (not always), it merges development and operations into a single team where the engineers get the opportunity to work on the entire lifecycle from development to deployment and into operations. This also enables the engineers to develop skills which are not confined to a single function/process.
Taking it a step further, the quality assurance and security teams are also tightly integrated into the complete lifecycle.
The reason for integrating the processes together is to provide them with an opportunity to automate the traditionally manual and slower processes. There are tools available to assist the engineers in managing tasks individually where a whole team might be required while using the traditional technologies and model.
Advantages of DevOps
- Speed
DevOps accelerates your speed to innovate, adapt to the dynamic market better and drive you towards better and efficient results for your business. This is possible because the model enables the developers and operations team to work in that direction.
- Rapid Delivery
As the overall processes work in an accelerated manner, the frequency of releases increases hence increasing the speed of innovations and improvements to your product. The quicker you are in this aspect, you can make the required improvements and updates and fix bugs if any accordingly building it as a competitive advantage for you.
- Reliability
DevOps ensures that the quality of the updates released and the changes in the infrastructure that will accelerate your deliverable while maintaining a positive experience for your customers.
- Scaling
It helps you operate and manage the changes to your infrastructure and development processes at scale. Automation and consistency reduce the overall risk and helps in managing complex and dynamic systems more effectively and efficiently.
- Improved Collaboration
The DevOps cultural model helps build teams which are more effective and the members possess values like ownership and accountability. Apart from combining their workflows, the development and operations teams collaborate closely and share many responsibilities. This helps in increasing efficiency and reducing time.
- Security
You can move quickly all the while retaining control and preserving compliance. The model can be adopted without compromising on the security by utilizing automated compliance policies, fine-grained controls and configuring the managing techniques.
Be it the shopping, entertainment or even banking, the IT industry has transformed everything. It no longer just supports a business but has rather become an integral part of all the components involved. We would like to conclude with emphasizing on the fact that to cope with the current business requirements and the dynamic nature of the market, companies must transform how they build and deliver software.