DevOps

DevOps

1. Developers and Testers

   • IT operations
     • DevOps promotes collaboration between Development and Operations team to deploy code to production faster in an automated & repeatable way.

2. Why DevOps?

   • The operation and development team worked in complete isolation.
   • After the design-build, the testing and deployment are performed respectively. That's why they consumed more time than actual build cycles.

3. Architecture and Features

   • Automation
     • Automation can reduce time consumption, especially during the testing and deployment phase. The productivity increases, and releases are made quicker by automation.
   • Configuration management
     • It ensures the application to interact with only those resources that are concerned with the environment in which it runs.
   • Integration
     • Applications need to be integrated with other components in the environment. The integration phase is where the existing code is combined with new functionality and then tested.
   • Collaboration
     • The Development and Operations team collaborates as a DevOps team, which improves the cultural model as the teams become more productive with their productivity, which strengthens accountability and ownership.

4. Advantages

   • DevOps is an excellent approach for quick development and deployment of applications.
   • It responds faster to the market changes to improve business growth.
   • DevOps escalate business profit by decreasing software delivery time and transportation costs.
   • DevOps clears the descriptive process, which gives clarity on product development and delivery.
   • It improves customer experience and satisfaction.

5. Disadvantages

   • DevOps professional or expert's developers are less available.
   • Developing with DevOps is so expensive.
   • Adopting new DevOps technology into the industries is hard to manage in short time.
   • Lack of DevOps knowledge can be a problem in the continuous integration of automation projects.