slide 1: Successful DevOps Implementation -
Best Practices
The speed at which businesses around the world are adopting DevOps is a clear indication
of its ability to help businesses grow. When a company implements DevOps and practices
well there will be an improvement in its software products. A good DevOps implementation
helps businesses deliver better faster higher quality and reliable software. This is possible
thanks to the cooperation between all departments of a company. For this implementation to
work properly there must be changes and modifications in programming practices. Here are
the key practices that will lead to a successful implementation.
What is DevOps
DevOps is the fusion of procedures and ideas which includes four basic components they
are culture collaboration tools and practices. These components in turn create a good
system and good infrastructure that helps businesses deliver great and reliable software.
DevOps projects help a company to better serve its customers and be competitive in the
market.
Understanding your infrastructure needs
Before building a DevOps infrastructure you should understand the software and its
prerequisites. Remember your business needs should guide the implementation of DevOps.
When trying to understand your infrastructure you should understand the following:
Cycle time – You must define your software cycle in a standard way. It is also necessary to
understand the limitations capabilities and downtime of your software if any.
Release Management Environments - There is a need for an alternate solution when
planning DevOps. Version management helps deploy and save your plans.
Infrastructure as Code - This means a solution to reduce both cycle time and release
management environments. You can solve this problem by managing your infrastructure as
code.
Achieve better results with monitoring and feedback
The feedback you receive from your customers and different departments play an important
role in DevOps. You should use these comments to make any necessary adjustments. One
of the DevOps best practices is to monitor an applications infrastructure to optimize
application performance. It doesnt matter whether the application host is an on-premises
data center or a cloud. An application will turn into a failure if it is hit by a virus during the
publishing process. It is therefore crucial that development teams and operational teams
verify and monitor the performance of the application. There are many tools available to
slide 2: monitor applications. These tools offer a lot of options that connect to various platforms like
the sales department and the app itself.
Continuous integration and continuous deployment
The essence of DevOps is to help your development teams work and deliver without any
disruption. Resume it without applying continuous integration and continuous delivery will
fail. Continuous integration is an important characteristic of agile processes. It helps
developers build software in small consistent steps by identifying faults and providing
feedback.
Automate where possible
Automation helps to speed up the process of the software development life cycle. You can
expand automation to other areas like:
● Database and networking changes
● Regression testing
● Load testing
● Networking changes
● Code development
● Middleware configuration
Automating your operations will help minimize errors during software development. This in
turn will help you save time because developers will not have to go back trying to figure out
where the error is. It will also save your company’s money.
Select tools that are compatible with each other
Any automation tool you choose to use in DevOps should work well with other tools. Experts
recommend that any toolsets you choose are compatible with your system. This is a good
practice for configuration management. Make sure that any toolset you bring on board will
integrate well with existing tools. You need to make the choice of new tools and check their
compatibility seriously. If possible and under your control choose tools from a single source.
Indeed the probability that these tools are compatible is high. A good selection of tools will
help to minimize conflicts and errors that can arise between development teams and
operations.
Integrate and deliver continuously
If you install DevOps and fail to implement continuous integration and development your
systems will fail. Continuous integration is an essential key to agile processes that helps
developers build software in small consistent steps. On the other hand continuous delivery
allows you to make sure that you deploy each new requirement safely and quickly into
production. This helps keep the software running smoothly through demanding test
automation.
Automated dashboard
slide 3: Automate a dashboard and connect the DevOps intellect with it. This dashboard will give you
data with an in-depth understanding and provide reports on every trade. The dashboard will
also allow you to assess changes to the database and the server.
Conclusion
Most software development companies are embracing DevOps to facilitate greater
transparency and collaboration between development teams and operations. Proper
implementation of this process leads to an increase in production efficiency. The company
will also be able to gain the trust of its customers.