Best Practices for DevOps implementation
As DevOps is quite a buzzing word around the IT industry, there is always some concerns about DevOps implementation it in the right way for the first time. Companies often thinks it’s just a philosophy, but it’s more than that. Companies should need to know the ways of implementing DevOps effectively to meet their business objectives & enhance their productivity. In this article we are going to describe the best practices through which a company can implement DevOps Practices effectively.
Know your infrastructure
Usually teams spent a major part of their time in infrastructure provisioning. Therefore DevOps teams should need to first investigate and learn about the infrastructure requirements so that they can align the goals to create the infrastructure which is aligned to the business needs. DevOps teams should know the Development cycle so that they can understand the limitations and ability of their implementations. Infrastructure as a code is a new way to provision the same environments many times. By knowing what to provision in advance DevOps teams can easily automate it and saves a lot of time.
DevOps team need Continuous Improvements
DevOps teams work includes the automation whether its a scalability or deployments. Also this automation doesn’t get implemented completely in a single shot. There is always a scope of improvements and as the requirements and components are changed DevOps needs to cover them as well which leads to changes in the procedure of automations. Always implement the things on smaller components first then if you feel your POC is justified, start scaling up and create a complete pipeline and define a process so anytime you can go back and check what all need to improve and where.
Implement CI/CD
As we know business requirements are continuously changing and by that developers need to keep changing the codes. Also as there are lot of new features in the applications developers needs to deploy the changes each time and test it. DevOps implementation needs to automate this so that developers do their work continuously and integrate all the components seamlessly. With the help of Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployments, companies give better user experience with minimal or no downtime.
Start Benchmarking and create Documentation
DevOps team always need to do the performance or load testing and do the collective benchmarking to generate the reports for the latest builds to judge the code efficiency and other aspects. Also DevOps teams need to create documents for all the things that had been done at all levels for the change management so that if anything needs to be reverted, it can be done easily. Also generate the Root Cause Analysis (RCA) for each issues so that proper resolutions could be implemented.
Always do cost optimization
Always keep an eye on the cost and billing amount. As most of the companies used the clouds like AWS, Alibaba, Azure, it does not take too much time when the infrastructure cost goes above the plan if you are not planning to do cost optimizations. DevOps teams need to take care of all this by maintaining the Reports and eliminate the resources which are not used. Cost optimization is very important and crucial role as it directly impact the businesses.
