FAQs on DevOps
DevOps is a software engineering practice and more of a culture that unifies software development and operational teams for continuous and quick product deliveries.
DevOps practice allows quick and efficient product deliveries with shorter development cycles, high deployment frequency and more dependable releases in line with business objectives.
Code, Build, Test, Package, Release, Configure and Monitor form the effective ‘DevOps toolchain’ which also includes Continuous Integration and Infrastructure as a Code as key elements.
Veritis uses various tools and platforms for successful DevOps implementation. Jenkins, TeamCity and Travis are used for Automation; Chef, Puppet Labs and Ansible for Configuration Management; OpenStack, Docker, and VMWare for Compute Virtualization; and Flocker, OpenZFS and Delphix for Data Virtualization. Read More
The DevOps delivery pipeline ensures faster deployment frequency, faster market time, lower failure rate of new releases and faster mean recovery time. DevOps aims at faster development and deployment cycles through continuous testing, quality testing, feature development and maintenance releases for improved reliability and security.
Veritis has a well-defined DevOps implementation process that incorporates the Agile principles of close collaboration between customers, product management, developers, and quality assurance for faster product delivery. Assessment and Planning, Pilot Framework Creation and Implementation form the major aspects of Veritis DevOps consulting service offering.
Veritis DevOps follows the standard 6C DevOps practices to ensure Continuous Business Planning, Collaborative Development, Continuous Testing, Continuous Release and Deployment, Continuous Monitoring and Collaborative Customer Feedback and Optimization.
DevOps is the collaborative of Development and Operations teams together, breaking down the siloes. DevSecOps is the security addition to DevOps, where security is integrated across all stages of the process chain from start to end. DevSecOps addressed the security challenges that DevOps culture faced.
DevOps is on-demand everywhere. Irrespective of size and revenues, every organization from SMBs to large enterprises, DevOps is the need of the hour to break the siloes between the operating teams. DevOps have shown the industries and respective organizations the new way of software culture driven by collaboration and enhanced communication.
‘Security’ is one challenge that DevOps organizations faced as they evolved to embrace on DevOps journey. While the traditional processes dealt with security at the end, the new security concept calls for security integration across stages of process chain. The concept of DevSecOps exactly does this promising enhanced security to DevOps organizations, thus emerging as a key security addition to DevOps process.
Measuring Return on Investment (ROI) with DevOps depends on evaluation of quality, performance and metrics. The State of DevOps 2019 report shows high performance with DevOps compared to non-DevOps with 208 times more deployment frequency, 106 times faster lead time, 22 percent minimized time on unplanned work and rework. DevOps organizations report 60 percent improvement in revenue and profits.
The US IT market has a wide range of options for DevOps consulting. However, choosing the right choice is where your success secret lies. Veritis has been one of the early adopters of DevOps Services in the USA IT consulting market. With more than a decade of experience, Veritis has served many Fortune 500 companies with its DevOps expertise.
Missing cultural balance between Development and Operations teams is one of the key challenges to DevOps implementation besides non-involvement of DBAs in release cycles hitting inner circles, absence of a holistic view within the value chain for software delivery and the existence of silos between Development and Operations teams.
Veritis DevOps services include Assessment and Planning, Pilot Framework Creation, Process Implementation, CI/CD Pipelines, Process Automation and Security Integration. Besides, there are also DevOps managed services including Operational Management, Effective Supply-chain, Release Management, Security Management and more.