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DevOps driving a new approach to cloud development

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According to a recent Gartner survey, high performing organizations outperform lower performing ones with 200 times more frequent deployments and 2555 times faster lead times. Also, high performing organizations outperform low performers with 24 times faster recovery times and 3 times lower change failure rate. This reinforces the need for enterprises to embrace DevOps in order to stay competitive.

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While businesses fully understand the need for speed and the benefits of DevOps, the entire process requires a cultural shift in the organization’s operation model. The proven or fastest mode to drive that shift is to identify a DevOps Managed Services provider, who specialize in helping organizations adopt agile development framework. The process traditionally begins with a business assessment and understanding your development lifecycle, followed by a detailed outline of best practices and process changes. Once you have re-defined your development process then comes the part of identifying tools that will automate the entire process for you.

How is DevOps driving a new approach to cloud development?

At the core of it, DevOps intends to marry the Development and Operations teams to do away with the delays that exists for years now around software development and automating the agile development methodology.

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Today’s businesses are about speed, efficacy and optimizing spend. These are the key factors influencing DevOps to drive a new approach to Cloud Development.

Speed:

Organizations that adopt DevOps are most likely to develop and deploy on Cloud as Cloud offers a centralized platform for development, testing and production. Taking away the complexities of distribution often encountered on a traditional on-prem setup. Not just that, most Cloud providers offer platform services that are fully integrated with DevOps tool allowing the Development & IT Operations team to deliver products and enhancement at Speed required to stay competitive.

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Efficacy:

Automation is the other word for efficacy and DevOps offers that, coupled with Cloud makes it the most efficient development lifecycle. Cloud offers platform for Continues Integration and Development, also allowing template based deployment and the scale that is required for complex application development, testing and deployments.

In addition to these operations, efficiency benefits, Cloud also offers centralized governance, security and monitoring that further contribute to 20% higher efficiency in the overall deployment process.

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Cost efficient:

Major Cloud providers today offer DevOps tools on a SaaS model, taking away the capital expenses in setting up tools on-prem, the management cost and cost associated with supporting systems like resources management, monitoring and security tools.

One-click deployment offer from Cloud providers to auto scaling containers or dynamically scalable database further drive higher ROI in comparison to traditional on-prem deployments.

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How to approach Cloud app development enabled by DevOps?

As I called out at the begin of this article, DevOps is not a technology or tool. It is the culture; the organization needs to be DevOps ready and it does not just involve one team or a member but the entire organization needs to be onboard with the process. DevOps even requires business teams to be involved, to continuously share customer feedbacks, allowing development team to build the features, functionality. All in all, DevOps allows an entire organization to deliver products that Customers enjoy and appreciate at a lighting speed. With Cloud powering the scale efficacy & cost benefits.

Though there is no checklist for adopting Cloud app development with DevOps. The following order can be used as the framework.

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  1. Identify a DevOps managed partner – Let the Doctors be Doctors, using a partner who comes with experience in designing DevOps process will be super helpful in identify your requirements well, documenting them also saving time in evaluating DevOps tools that fits your requirement
  2. Define your business requirement – There is no point of any technology or tool if it does not solve a business problem for you. Hence, the requirement of the business should be the starting point!
  3. Define your current development cycle – It is best to define current development cycle and then overlap it with business requirement, this activity will help identify the gaps easier.
  4. Create your initial DevOps process – Your partner will be able to open up with best practice and recommendation based on the gaps identified.
  5. Choose your Devops tool and link to your Cloud Platform – Selecting tools that are available on SaaS model and link to the services on Cloud that support scale & availability.

Continuous improvement will follow to keep you on the edge of competition.

The article is authored by Ms. Jesintha Louis, Director – Partner Success & Cloud Solutions Specialist, G7 CR Technologies India

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