DevOps Bringing Paradigm Shift to Software Development LifeCycle Management

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DevOps Bringing Paradigm Shift to Software
Development LifeCycle Management
Nearly 47 of the companies have already adopted
DevOps and 33 are planning to adopt during the
next two years. The highest level of adoption for
DevOps are in IT services and Retail followed by
Healthcare and Finance- is an old tale to tell,
which is already ragged now!!! In the upcoming
projects, organizations will rely more modern
software development and delivery as a part of
their business model to face the highly dynamic
and competitive markets. So, if we dive deeper
into the future of DevOps, the hottest trends
will be shifting from Development and Operations
to Testing, Security and Metrics. Lets know how
DevOps is going to revamp the entire software
business
Creating change together with Microservices and
DevOps
Container Technologies have created a buzz in the
market which is definitely going to stay till the
next decade. Microservices is a broad concept
that applies to churning applications, solutions
or products to more modular and granular level.
Developers can deploy these microservices
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independently which in-turn is helpful in fault
isolation, opening gates for faster routes to
market. With DevOps clubbing with microservices,
developers can work on the loosely coupled
applications and have the liberty to choose the
technology stack according to the best suited
requirements.
Continuous Testing will be of Top Priority
Continuous Delivery is a noble goal which can get
you an express ticket to Digital Failure if best
practices are not adhered. The only way to ensure
that the code is according to the standards is
to continuously test it. With the developers
generating microservices, more number of modules
needs to be tested vigorously. For this the
developers need the ability to test the code as
it is produced in whats known as SHIFT LEFT
CONTINUOUS TESTING. Working on such testing
using automation and virtualization can expand
agile practices beyond development and test and
helps in eliminating long backend cycles. This
creates a culture of continuous improvement
leveraging measures of effectiveness and
efficiency to ensure that the final product is
getting better. Combining DevOps with
Security- DevSecOps With the increase in the
complexity of projects, one can potentially have
different types of security issues ranging from
bad codes to misconfigured servers and everything
in between. These problems could only be solved
keeping in mind the security implications,
principles and standards for building the
applications. A new movement called DevSecOps has
been implemented to meet the challenges and
bring forward operational and technological
innovation to cybersecurity. With microservices
and SDKs evolving, the developers could easily
build security for products and solutions for
greater user experience. The requirements of
security related code testing are highly dynamic
and idiosyncratic, so it is important to unify
development, security and operations making it
DevSecOps.
Concentrating more on Metrics
DevOps Metrics is a holistic way of viewing not
just the success of the DevOps program but can
also find out how it can be modified, extended
and improved. The ongoing focus of DevOps
metrics is on the areas of deployment, operations
and support which helps in speeding up the
processes of development, deployment, frequency
of deployments and its failures, customers
responses can be measured. DevOps metrics usually
fall into three categories of People, Process
and Technology to a greater extend but Deployment
Frequency, Change Lead Time, Change Failure
Time, Mean Time to Recover has to be considered
to get the 360 degrees of DevOps Metrics.
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A successful measurement becomes increasingly
important for DevOps, the organizations keep
pushing the envelope to adopt rigorous test
automation, more sophisticated pre-production
security controls and management disciplines
across DevOps Lifecycle. With the adoption of
these principles, a real progress will be
showcased.