DevOps is a workflow that helps organizations deliver better software faster. In this blog post, we’ll explain how DevOps works and why it’s essential for any company to adopt the workflow if they want to compete in today’s technology market.
DevOps is a collaboration between development and IT operations
In practice, DevOps is a collaboration between development and IT operations. It isn’t a job title but a cultural shift focusing on breaking down silos between disciplines. DevOps is about collaborating closely with other teams to deliver better software faster; it’s about communication and automation.
In short: DevOps is about making software distribution easy for everyone involved (including the end-user).
Allows faster, more frequent deployments
Changing requirements, new ideas, and bugs are a natural part of software development. The more you deploy, the more likely you are to find something that needs fixing.
If your team can’t quickly deploy code changes without causing traffic jams in their production environment or incurring expensive downtime penalties from their cloud provider, they’ll be reluctant to experiment with new features.
The solution? Focus on improving the speed and frequency of deployments rather than trying to automate every step in the process (though automation is essential too).
Help deliver better Quality Software
One of the most critical aspects of delivering software is quality. The more you can automate your processes and improve consistency, the better your team will be able to deliver quality products.
In DevOps, it is common for an organization to build an automated continuous integration (CI) pipeline. This type of pipeline will automatically run unit tests and other types of test cases on a piece of code before deploying it into production.
It’s also possible for some organizations to automate their entire deployment process using Jenkins or Spinnaker by deploying each change with every commit in Git or GitHub repositories, respectively.
This approach helps ensure that developers aren’t making mistakes as they write code because they don’t need to remember what they did last week or what they did yesterday when writing new features or fixing bugs – everything comes from automation scripts at this point which is executed once every time changes are made in either repository owned by either customer/product owner or developer themselves.
Enables better communication and collaboration across teams
DevOps is a culture, not just a tool. The most significant value of DevOps is in the process and culture that it enables. It’s a culture where teams align to build high-quality software quickly, safely, and at a low cost by improving communication across organizational functions.
A strong DevOps team will help you deliver better software faster than ever before. Here are some of the ways that we’ve seen this happen:
It reduces the time to market for new features or projects.
You get more frequent feedback from users (and your competition) because your product evolves acceleratedly.
It increases quality as you’re able to implement more frequent automated testing cycles It decreases the time to market because you’re able to test and deploy changes more quickly.
It increases cross-functional collaboration across your organization.
Requires the right tools to be successful
To be successful, DevOps requires the right tools in place. You will need a change management system that allows you to keep track of all changes made to your software and their corresponding test results. You’ll also need monitoring tools that can alert you when problems arise and metrics systems that allow you to see how well teams perform against specific goals or benchmarks.
You’ll also want to ensure you have the right people on board—and no, we don’t necessarily mean developers or testers (although they are very important). We mean anyone who can help facilitate communication between teams so they can share information freely and effectively. This includes engineers from different areas such as QA, development, and infrastructure—and managers who understand how these roles fit together within the larger business context.
Finally, it’s vital for DevOps teams to adopt processes that make sense for their organization rather than relying on tried-and-true methods from other companies or industries because each one has its unique challenges; this is why it’s vital for organizations adopting DevOps practicesto define what those processes will look like beforehand so everyone knows what is expected of them before starting work each day.
Conclusion
We can’t talk about DevOps without mentioning the tools that make it possible. You can use several tools to automate tasks and improve collaboration between your teams, but some of the most popular ones include Jenkins, Puppet, and Chef.
