#FocusOnBestPractices
DEVeloper + OPerationS
According to Microsoft, A compound of development (Dev) and operations (Ops), DevOps is the union of people, process, and technology to continually provide value to customers. Azure DevOps supports a collaborative culture and set of processes that bring together developers, project managers, and contributors to develop software. It allows organizations to create and improve products at a faster pace than they can with traditional software development approaches.
What does DevOps mean for teams? DevOps enables formerly siloed roles—development, IT operations, quality engineering, and security—to coordinate and collaborate to produce better, more reliable products. By adopting a DevOps culture along with DevOps practices and tools, teams gain the ability to better respond to customer needs, increase confidence in the applications they build, and achieve business goals faster.
DevOps influences the application lifecycle throughout its plan, develop, deliver, and operate phases. Each phase relies on the others, and the phases are not role specific. All these four phases are closely integrated, with automation and collaboration between the development and operations teams to ensure that the application is delivered quickly, reliably, and efficiently.
Planning: This phase involves collaboration between development and operations teams to define the requirements for the application and plan the development process. The goal is to align the application with business goals and ensure that it will meet the needs of the users.
Development: The development team writes and tests the code, and then creates a build of the application that is ready to be deployed. This phase also includes version control, continuous integration, and automated testing. Development team may also use Agile methodologies and practices to ensure a continuous flow of work and deliver features and updates rapidly.
Operations: The application is deployed to the production environment, where it is monitored and maintained. This phase includes continuous monitoring, logging, and alerting, as well as incident management. The operations team is also responsible for ensuring the availability, scalability, and security of the application.
Delivery: This phase includes continuous delivery and deployment, as well as testing and validation. The goal is to ensure that the application is deployed quickly and reliably, with minimal downtime. This phase also includes the release management process. The delivery team ensures that the application is deployed to the correct environments and that the correct version of the application is deployed.
Teams that adopt DevOps culture, practices, and tools become high performing, building better products faster for greater customer satisfaction.
While adopting DevOps practices automates and optimizes processes through technology, it all starts with the culture inside the organization—and the people who play a part in it.
DevSecOps is the evolution of DevOps, where developer, security, and operations teams are united around the culture of security as a shared responsibility.
Developer + Security + Operations
A compound of development (Dev), security (Sec), and operations (Ops), DevSecOps is the union of people, process, and technology to foster a culture of continually providing value and consistent security to customers.
By following this workflow, organizations can ensure that security is integrated into the software development process from the beginning, and that vulnerabilities are identified and fixed quickly. This helps to reduce the risk of security breaches and keep the software secure and compliant.
Technology plays a key role in enabling DevSecOps and implementing it effectively. Some of the technologies that are commonly used in DevSecOps include:
Teams that adopt DevSecOps culture, practices, and tools improve observability, strengthen security at early stages in application development, and proactively remediate vulnerabilities.
DevOps and DevSecOps aims to improve the speed, quality, and reliability of software delivery. Both have the potential to bring significant benefits to organizations, including faster delivery, improved quality, increased agility, and greater reliability. By adopting these approaches, organizations can improve their ability to deliver software and services that meet the needs of their customers and stay competitive in the market. Feel free to contact us for a free consultation. Please send your inquiries to [email protected].
Business today is happening at the speed of light. Providing more features and being faster to the market than the competition is now the norm, with multiple releases of new features and fixes to business-critical production systems on a single day.
