DevOps Automation For Faster And Continuous Product Release

By Janet Jackson


Success will not come on a silver platter unless corporations set the foundation for it. In the aggressive competition of grabbing opportunities in the market that defines the business environment today, only the strong and forward thinking ones will survive. Businesses encompass a myriad of IT solutions that ensure a timely product delivery to consumers and streamlining activities. However, there are more effective ways to do this. The Devops Automation subject is addressed to C level managers who are at the top of finance and healthcare to name a few.

This can be achieved by ensuring that the code is always in a deployable state even when multiple developers make changes on a continuous basis. Thus, it enables faster and more effective application rollouts with shorter release cycles. The need of the hour for enterprises is shorter release cycles and quality products that are easier with this methodology. Most enterprises and organizations are aligning towards it as it is a preferred philosophy being used with agile software development.

Chef: This is a configuration management tool that aids in automating configuration, deployment, and management of software applications. It deals with machine setup on the cloud, on servers, and on virtual machines. Configuration management ensures that all the files and software in your computers are configured correctly and are functional. The chef does this by treating the infrastructure of your machines as pieces of code called 'recipes', which is in turn compiled in 'cookbooks.' Puppet: This too is a configuration management tool that works to automate provisioning, configuration, and management of devices. CERN, Oracle, and Reddit are among its noted users.

It necessitates the need for a cultural shift among the stakeholders to work for a common goal and encourages Dev and Ops to function as a single team focused on delivering value across the IT value chain. Thus enterprises should mark a cultural shift in their style of functioning.

Strategic Role of QA in DevOps: Under the mode, both developers and testers play equally important role and typically the Quality Analyst (QA) ties together Dev and Ops teams. It further enables teams to collaborate to have the software and applications up and running. Both the developer and the tester work in close coordination in its environment. But it has been observed that organizations without a strong and definite QA and testing strategy in faces troubles in meeting their goals for an accelerated speed of delivery.

Three Accelerators for this Process i. E. People, Process and Tools: In addition to the culture change the three accelerators includes people, a proper process to be in place and there is need for automation tools that may consist of the open source or licensed tools. In addition, it substantiates a need for a cultural change, a figurative environment set-up, configuration, monitoring, automation techniques for deployment and continuous testing that helps achieve collaborative development and ensures faster time to market.

This list is only the tip of an enormous iceberg. Countless other open source tools are scattered across the landscape. Choose a tool that best fits your immediate needs. None of these tools might fit all your requirements. The trick lies in choosing the best set for you.

Understand the Important Patterns: There are basically four areas with respect to its patterns such as Extend development into production, Create production feedback into development, Embed development into IT operations and lastly Embed IT operations into development. All these patterns are useful as they ensure production readiness of the code and environment. Further, helps to create re-usable user stories for the IT operations and even defines the non-functional requirements that can be used across the process.




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