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What is DevOps?
When we talk about DevOps, we mean an approach to IT delivery that combines people and tools that can help break down silos between development and operations teams.
DevOps teams accelerate the development of applications and services and, with a more responsive approach to the management of the IT infrastructure, can deploy and update IT products faster than ever before.
As the name suggests, DevOps is where “dev” and “ops” meet. It emerged from two earlier trends: Agile development and lean manufacturing principles. The former emphasizes short sprints of work and rapid iteration to create a more responsive IT development organization, and the latter minimizes waste and maximizes productivity in factories.
What is DevOps?
According to AWS, “DevOps is the combination of cultural philosophies, practices, and tools that increases an organization’s ability to deliver applications and services at high velocity…”.
In a nutshell, AWS DevOps (a combination of “development” and “operations”) is a set of practices which combine both information technology and software development to shorten the development life cycle of systems while continuously delivery results of high quality. By using DevOps, you can work faster and produce products and services at a faster pace than companies that make use of traditional infrastructure management processes and software development.
Swiftly producing high-quality products and services = Competitive advantage.
How does DevOps Work?
In traditional development and operations environments, teams and processes are isolated. With an AWS DevOps model in place, this is not the case.
Under an AWS DevOps model, the teams mentioned above are merged into a single team. Engineers work across the application’s entire lifecycle, from development to deployment and operations. This allows their skills to not be confined to a single function.
Some DevOps models are tightly integrated with security teams. When this happens, it’s often referred to as DevSecOps.
DevSecOps make use of automated processes which have been slow in the past, further allowing the teams to accomplish tasks faster and reliably.
What are the Benefits of DevOps
With the DevOps model, you can eliminate repetitive manual work because of automation.
Continuous Delivery – A practice where code changes are run through automated tests, then packaging up the builds and promoting them to production making use of automated deployments.
Infrastructure as Code – A process including the migration of configurations between environments, which is backed up by a version control system. This ensures your team can track where changes have been made at specific stages of an application’s lifecycle.
2. Speed
With the DevOps model, your AWS engineers and developers can innovate faster for AWS clients, adapt to changing markets quicker, and grow your efficiency at driving your organisation’s results.
3. Swift Delivery
With the DevOps model, you can swiftly fix bugs and respond faster to your customers’ business needs. Faster response time and quick delivery will help your business have the advantage among your industry competitors.
4. Reliable
During the process of creating and developing your DevOps model, you can test changes to ensure they are safe and functional before delivery the updates to end-users.
5. Scalability
With the DevOps model, you can operate and maintain your growing development processes at scale. This allows your team to efficiently handle environments for development, testing, and production while reducing risks.
6. Improves Collaboration
You can build efficient teams within a DevOps cultural model which emphasises values including accountability and ownership. This allows teams to collaborate easily while sharing responsibilities and combining workflows.
7. Secure
With the DevOps Model, you can work quickly while maintaining security and compliance standards. You are able to adopt a DevOps model without affecting security by using:
– Fine-grained controls
– Automated compliance policies
– Configuration management techniques
Why DevOps is Important
As the world continues to transform, software becomes an essential component of any business. DevOps allows businesses to interact with customers via software as an online service, application, or device.
It also helps an organisation increase its operational performance.
AWS Products Which Help Manage Your DevOps Solution
AWS CodePipeline – A service which continuously delivers swift, reliable updates for applications.
AWS CodeDeploy – A service which automates code deployments to any instance, like Amazon EC2 instances.
AWS CodeCommit – A fully-managed source control service which makes it easier for organisations to host secure and scalable Git repositories.
Amazon EC2 – A service which provides instances where you can deploy your code.
Amazon Elastic Container Service – A container management service which supports Docker containers, while allowing you to easily run applications on a cluster of Amazon EC2 instances.
AWS Lambda – A service which runs code without managing servers.
AWS CloudFormation – A service which helps create and manage related AWS resources, while updating them in an orderly manner.
AWS OpsWorks – A configuration management service which helps organisations configure and operate applications of any shape or size by using Chef.
AWS Config – A service which provides organisations with an AWS resource inventory, configuration change notifications, and configuration history to enable security.
DevOps Best Practices
Continuous Integration – A practice where code changes are regularly merged into a central repository. This helps teams quickly discover bugs, reduce validation time, and improve software quality.
Continuous Delivery – A practice where code changes are automatically created, tested, and prepared for production.
Microservices – A practice where single applications are built as an assortment of smaller services.
Infrastructure as Code – A practice where infrastructure is supplied and managed by using code and other software development techniques, including continuous integration and version control.
Policy as Code – A practice where organisations can monitor and fortify compliance dynamically.
Monitoring and Logging – A practice where an organisation can monitor its metrics and logs to understand how infrastructure and appliance performance can impact the end user’s product experience.
Communication and Collaboration – A practice where communication and collaboration are increased and improved when making use of DevOps tooling and automating software delivery processes.
In conclusion, AWS DevOps is a unique combination of culture, tools, and practices with a focus to continuously improve your operations- and development systems. Improving collaboration among teams and automating certain aspects of a system will help break down the walls between software phases to allow for continuous growth and increased accuracy.
If you’re interested in learning more about DevOps and why your business can benefit from the model, get in touch with our AWS engineers. We’ll guide you through all the essentials and help you better your company’s processes to end-user satisfaction.