DevOps is the fancy name given to a theoretical framework that, if put into proper practice, brings about a cohesive, seamless functioning of the development and operations teams of organizations. DevOps needs (and in effect, creates) a culture of knowledge and information sharing, that leads to collaboration between the various teams. The practice of DevOps principles not only is beneficial for the performance of software development and operations, but it also has a very positive impact on the web service development and quality assurance performance. Disciplined Agile Delivery is an established process for developing software, and it includes DevOps. DevOps helps to establish, and achieve an effortless Continuous Delivery process.<\/p>\n
DevOps Principles & Practices<\/strong><\/p>\n Some of the practices that help lay the foundation of a strong DevOps culture are:<\/p>\n A DevOps culture is best defined as a way of open communication, sharing of responsibility, and mutual respect and trust. If the cooperation between the two teams is not handled optimally, it will have an adverse impact on productivity, software quality, and service quality.<\/p>\n Working in a collaborated manner to achieve integration in today\u2019s environment where, say, testing a mobile application requires testing not only the multiple devices from different manufacturers, but also multiple operating systems, is obviously very challenging, and requires a different approach.<\/p>\n An established DevOps environment makes both the development and operations teams become each other’s customer and supplier. While the Dev team needs the Ops team to help manage systems for large scale information systems, the Ops team needs the Development teams\u2019 assistance in developing tools and apps for the operating systems, and for implementing features to improve security, performance, and stability. In essence, this dependency forms the basis on which the bridge of DevOps can be built.<\/p>\n While some perceive DevOps as a job description, others see it a skill set. DevOps practices can be classified including the concepts of quality assurance, services, and structures & standards.<\/p>\n The different views of DevOps requires us to look at DevOps from multiple perspectives. This allows us to unite the conflicting definitions of DevOps under separate names, such as DevOps as a role in the SDLC process, DevOps as a skill set and DevOps as a conceptual framework for supporting development and operations of Information Systems.<\/p>\n Once a proper DevOps environment has been established, it makes significant contributions to the growth of an organization.<\/p>\n Contributions to Quality Assurance (QA)<\/strong><\/p>\n DevOps<\/strong> <\/a>can make a significant contribution in the area of QA in Information Systems that links the development, operations, and customer support teams with the customers. QA is usually hard to predict and DevOps improves the QA process by bringing the aforementioned parties closer through cooperation and tooling. DevOps also provides more opportunities to gather more data today \u2013 as compared to the past. To have a greater impact, the responsibility of providing QA can be assigned to employees who perform both development and operations tasks. By using behavior driven operations (BDOps), the different roles around QA can specify how the system must deliver the desired UX.<\/p>\n Contributions to <\/strong>Services<\/strong><\/p>\n DevOps principles also prove beneficial in the service management frameworks (SMF) as services rely more and more on cooperation between Dev and Ops personnel. The integration of development and operations activities forces organizations to reassess their business models. Organizations at times need to assess their business models to use Service-based models as Software as a Service (SaaS), and as DevOps has certain competitive advantages, it adds a lot of value as an integral part of the new model.<\/p>\n Additionally, resources which in the past were owned by companies are today offered as services such as Platform as a Service (PaaS), Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). As services heavily rely on seamless cooperation between the Dev and Ops teams, supporting DevOps principles in the SMF is beneficial.<\/p>\n Contributions to the Information System Development<\/strong><\/p>\n DevOps is a major change in Information System development. DevOps reduces the gap between developers, operations and the end user, allowing for earlier problem detection. In the past, after each Scrum sprint software would work according to specifications, but these would not be validated by the actual end user. With DevOps, we can implement continuous development and release software to the end user frequently. DevOps also allows developers and operations to work together more efficiently and effectively.<\/p>\n How does DevOps Benefit<\/strong><\/p>\n In terms of supporting a culture of collaboration<\/span>:<\/p>\n In terms of supporting automation:<\/span><\/p>\n In terms of facilitating sharing:<\/span><\/p>\n In terms of the usage of services:<\/span><\/p>\n In terms of facilitating quality assurance:<\/span><\/p>\n In terms of solving problems<\/span> considering structures & standards:<\/p>\n DevOps practices thus help if you want to save on time and money, while increasing quality and time to market. Yes, it\u2019s true that you may have to spend time and resources to setup automation. But done with the right partner and weighing the cost and benefits, this will be an investment for which you won\u2019t regret. Click here<\/a> to know more about Gallop\u2019s DevOps expertise.<\/p>\n Reference: <\/strong> DevOps is the fancy name given to a theoretical framework that, if put into proper practice, brings about a cohesive, seamless functioning of the development and operations teams of organizations. DevOps needs (and in effect, creates) a culture of knowledge and information sharing, that leads to collaboration between the various teams. 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\nReport by Floris Erich, Chintan Amrit, Maya Daneva on ‘DevOps Literature Review’, University of Twente<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"