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Adopting DevOps: The What, The Why, and The How
Adopting DevOps allows you to streamline your software delivery lifecycle and to be able to deliver
better software faster. Here's how it should go. by Debbie Zelten
ACCORDING TO A STUDY by Grand
View Research, the global DevOps
market size is expected to reach $12.85
billion by 2025.
The reason why organizations are interested
in adopting DevOps is to streamline
their software delivery lifecycle and to be
able to deliver better software faster.
Despite all the promises that DevOps
holds, Gartner also predicts that through
2022, 75% of DevOps initiatives will fail
due to reasons other than technological
limitations.
What is DevOps?
DevOps is not a tool, technology or framework.
Instead, it is a set of practices that
help bridge the gap between development
and operations teams in an enterprise.
By bridging the gap, DevOps eliminates
communication barriers and makes collaboration
easier.
As a result of the seamless collaboration
across the delivery ecosystem, there
is inherent agility in the delivery ecosystem
and organizations are successful
in delivering better software to their
customers faster.
By enabling faster delivery, better collaboration
and automation, DevOps makes
an enterprise software delivery ecosystem
extremely efficient.
DevOps cannot be efficient without
an agile setup. There is no point optimizing
development and accelerating build
processes if the new code will not go to the
users until the next 'big' release.
Even on the operations side, automating
deployment and accelerating the delivery
and deployment of code and infrastructure
will not make any difference, if the
development team will only release builds
at huge intervals.
DevOps' true impact can be observed
when the biggest two silos of an enterprise
ecosystem - development and operations
setups - are integrated and optimized.
Agile also facilitates early and continuous
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Let's take a closer look at what DevOps is, why companies need DevOps and what
it takes to get DevOps right.
delivery, which is the key reason organizations
adopt DevOps.
Challenges that DevOps Helps
Overcome
An enterprise delivery ecosystem is a
complex setup made of multiple teams, systems,
end-user devices and other elements.
The complexity sometimes leads to a
lack of collaboration, which in turn leads to
issues, such as:
› Slow test process
› Increased costs and overheads
› Lack of consistency in the environments
across the functions
› Significant dependency on a team or an
individual
› Unnecessary manual interventions
› Increased costs and overheads
› Ineffective process monitoring
The process of planning, development,
testing, release and deployment in DevOps
is iterative. Unlike a traditional software development
setup where development and
operations teams primarily work in silos,
DevOps focuses on breaking the silos and
creating a unified delivery channel.
It accelerates the feedback cycle, eliminates
waste, reduces delays and enhances
the efficiency and reliability of the software
that goes to production.
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Why Enterprises Should Adopt
DevOps
By resolving collaboration problems and
creating a unified delivery ecosystem,
DevOps enables organizations to:
› Increase the overall productivity of the
delivery process
› Bring transparency across teams and
communication channels
› Accelerate delivery time by eliminating
unnecessary processes and operation
overheads
› Receive and process continuous
feedback
› Accelerate time-to-resolution for issues
› Create a reliable delivery ecosystem,
which leads to better software quality
› Reduce overall cost by streamlining the
end-to-end delivery process
Most organizations fail in getting
DevOps right because they treat it like
a framework, not a set of processes or
practices. DevOps is more than implementing
the right tools and technologies. The
success of DevOps depends upon driving
technical and cultural shifts together.
In order to fuel better collaboration,
improve delivery and make a DevOps
project successful, three other factors play
a crucial role.
These factors are people, tools and
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