The word DevOps is a term derived from the words – development, and operations.
DevOps is a series of practices and techniques that automates the processes involved between information technology and software development teams, to ensure that they can build, test and release software in a faster and more reliable way.
The concept surrounding DevOps is based on building a culture of collaboration between different teams that functions in relative silos. This innovative concept offers various benefits like increased trust, faster and more reliable releasing of software, quick resolution of critical issues, and better management of unplanned work. All these benefits do not only benefit the teams but also for the entire business.
How Is It Done?
With DevOps, businesses are able to unite agile continuous delivery and automation to help development and operations teams to become more efficient, deliver higher value to both business and customers, innovate faster, and ultimately improve business operations and output.
Doing DevOps effectively would mean integrating and collaborating with entities that are external to your company.
So, how do businesses integrate DevOps in their operations? Here are ways on how this is done effectively.
- The integration of open source code into their code base which is dependent on an open-source community where they write their codes.
- Maintaining a healthy relationship with third party sources while ensuring release schedules as well as tool chains are compatible with their needs as well as their partner’s needs.
- Businesses need to make sure that the applications they work with and deliver are compatible with different operating systems, platforms, browsers, and hardware devices that are controlled by third-party sources.
- Businesses must also comply with the regulatory rules that are provided by third parties and ensure that the delivery chains are able to meet those regulatory requirements.
- Applications must comply with the application programming interface that is designed as well as updated by third parties.
All these tips and tricks in integrating DevOps in businesses will help a business grow and develop. However, businesses need to integrate with as well as to adapt to decisions made by third-party partners. If they are not able to comply, problems like broken code, regulatory compliance issues, and loss of third party partners may arise which will ultimately affect business operation performance and output.
Why Should Businesses Opt for DevOps?
In today’s competitive business industry, more businesses are integrating DevOps into their business. To make this integration a success, businesses must be able to build a culture of shared responsibility, transparency, and faster feedback.
Operational teams and third-party partners should work hand in hand in the operation. Everyone should be aware of how individual actions affect not only specific teams but also other teams that are involved in the release process.
When there is a lack of visibility, transparency, and shared goals, there is also a lack of dependency planning, misaligned business priorities, and finger-pointing issues. All of such issues will result in poor performance as well as substandard quality.
Release Faster and Work Smarter
Like most industries, speed is everything. Businesses that practice DevOps are able to release more frequently with higher quality as well as higher stability.
When a business does not have any automated tests and review cycles, there will be issues concerning release to production. With poor incident response time will affect not only business timely and quality output but also significantly decreases the confidence of the team, as they are unable to meet standard requirements.
Through automation and proper integration of DevOps, all of these issues are significantly reduced or eliminated and timely release with fewer issues is achieved.
Accelerate Resolution Time and Improve Customer Satisfaction
When resolution time is significantly decreased, this means that there is seamless communication along with full transparency between DevOps teams. As a result, downtime is significantly minimized and issues are resolved faster.
When there are critical issues that are not resolved quickly, customer satisfaction is affected. Such critical issues arise when open communication is absent and this will also result in the increased frustration and tension among teams.
Implement DevSecOps
So, what is DevSecOps? This is the philosophy involving the integration of security process within the process of DevOps. This concept is focused on the creation of new solutions intended for complex software development process.
Better Manage Unplanned Workload
Yes, every operation often encounters unplanned work. In reality, unplanned work can affect your team’s productivity. With DevOps, your team can follow an established process and clear prioritization, the development team along with the operations teams can better manage such unplanned work while being able to continue to focus on set or planned work at the same time.
It cannot be denied that prioritizing as well as transitioning unplanned work across various systems and teams is inefficient and can distract your team from the work at hand. But, with DevOps, there is a process followed that raises visibility and proactive retrospection, DevOps teams can better anticipate and efficiently share and complete unplanned work.
Start Collaborating Now!
DevOps helps in speeding up processes from development to deployment. These series of approaches require the development and operations teams communicate seamlessly and frequently so the quality output is achieved.
Selecting the right tools is critical for DevOps to be successful. If your operations need to keep up with the rapid development cycles, they would need highly flexible platforms and automated systems.
So, what are you waiting for? Start collaborating and adapting DevOps culture now!
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