Benefits of DevOps
What is DevOps?
DevOps is the blend of development and operations with a specific philosophy that improves how your organization manages technology across the entire software development life cycle. In addition, it impacts the culture, practices, and tools of software development to give your organization a competitive edge.
The Benefits of DevOps
Traditionally, software development and operations teams worked independently and sometimes came together to collaborate when something went wrong. Unfortunately, at times that may prolong the project along with the project releases and usually leads to blaming and frustration on both ends. However, the DevOps methodology implemented the right way leads to an organization providing products and services more rapidly, leading to competitive advantage and sustaining and keeping customers.
In DevOps, a cross-functional team that includes development, testing, and operations works together through all the stages of the DevOps lifecycle.
For example, during the planning stage, resources, technologies, and infrastructure are determined, and a roadmap for the product is created to follow through as a team.
During the code phase, the implementation of the product and its features is done here.
All the code is centralized during the build stage, and testing is implemented to discover any bugs or errors.
The build is deployed in a testing environment focused on security and performance in the testing stage. During the deployment stage, the team has a live application where users have full access to the product. Once the testing deployment completes and there is sign-off, the project is deployed into a production environment.
In the operating stage, the operations team will collect data on the product’s performance and utilization from the product users.
What’s the goal of all of this?
The main goal is to find ways to improve the product continuously. Conclusively during the monitor phase, feedback is collected and analyzed, and the planning stage for the next sprint through the DevOps lifecycle. The DevOps methodology allows for faster and better-quality production, allowing more time to innovate. You also have speedier issue resolution since the development and operations teams work closely together instead of apart. Enterprises that previously struggled with slow deployments and non-collaborative groups can deploy over a dozen times a day and automate their testing in the tens of thousands per day.
This is all because of the DevOps mentality. In what ways can DevOps help your enterprise teams?
