myTectra: 7 Reasons to Learn DevOps

Tuesday 11 June 2019

7 Reasons to Learn DevOps

Who has not heard of SONY…?

Sony Pictures Entertainment is a Digital Media Group (DMG), a American entertainment company and a subsidiary of Sony entertainment inc.

As company SONY faced a challenge in managing entertainment software development and delivery.

In Every Companies Time play a huge role with revenue. As the time taken to Develop Software increased the Revenue got affected in order to overcome this problem SONY

Implemented an automated cloud delivery system composed of open source tools and SaaS solutions. This made the months-long delivery to just in minute’s delivery.

This Continuous delivery Model helped developers to focus on adding features and reduced idle resources and associated costs.

How did This Happen?

Answer is: They used DevOps the Best Practice in Industries.

Preface:

What is DevOps?

Development+ Operations = DevOps

Devops is not a Tool.

Devops Is a Practice, Methodology, Culture or process used in an Organization or Company for fast collaboration, integration and communication between Development and Operational Teams. In order to increase, automate the speed of productivity and delivery with reliability.

History:

In 2008 Andrew Shafer and Patrick Debois introduced “Agile Infrastructure”.
In 2009 the Term “DevOps” was promoted in Belgium, through “devopsdays”.

Devops Implementation: Devops Includes planning, developing, integration and automation in order to reduce the Manual work and increase responsiveness of support team and also optimize the resources used. Devops works with the tool which is Appropriate with the Customers.

The Main Goals of DevOps Are:

Faster Time to Market
Improved Deployment Frequency
Lower Failure rates on New Releases
Faster Recovery

Latest DevOps Technologies are:

About DevOps Tools:

DevOps Does not use a Single Tool deployment DevOps Process in an organization. DevOps is more of a ‘toolchain’ there are Set of Tools Used Together in Choosen DevOps Practice. DevOps involves in integrating the existing tools and migrating the non-compliant tools to fit the chosen practice/process.

Steps Involved in Tool Support:

Request capture and ticket workflow
Source Control
Agile Planning
Test Case Management
Build automation
Continuous deployment
Release Management
Automated test scripts and Load Testing
Feedback Management
Team Collaboration
Application Telemetry
Lab Management
Cloud provider integration

Popular Devops Tools Are:

Nagios (& Icinga)- Open Source
Monit- Open Source
ELK-Elasticsearch, logstash, kibana-via Logz.io - Open Source
Consul.io- Open Source
Jenkins- Open Source
Docker- Open Source
Ansible- Open Source
Collectd/Collectl- Open Source
Git(Git Hub) - Open Source
SolarWinds Log & Event Manager- FREE trial available for 30 days
Vagrant - Free
PagerDuty -FREE trial available for 14 days
Prometheus - Free
Ganglia- Free
Snort – Free
Splunk – Free
Chef - FREE trials available
Sumo Logic - Free Trial Available
RabbitMQ - Free
20.Apache Maven - Free

There are more than 40 Tools Available in The Market

Reasons why you should Learn Devops Now:

1. Devops Provides Best Communication System:

During Production there will be so many teams Involved in the Cycle Hand Shaking between the teams will be inevitable. Due to this the progression will be blocked or delayed. In order to have Continuous collaboration between all teams DevOps provides the Platform. This is a main Advantage of Learning DevOps you will get to know each thing under your project.

2. Devops will naturally slow Down Bad Developers:

In the Company there will always be Excellent, Good, Poor, Bad Developers.

DevOps Plays a Very Fine Role in this by naturally removing Bad Developers.

Bad Code produced by bad developer is not much stopped in to production By QA or any meetings.

While Operational team tries to analyze what is wrong with the code, the bad developer continues his/her next load of Useless Code to release in to

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