DevOps brings a paradigm shift to software development lifecycle management
Nearly 47% of companies have already adopted DevOps and 33% plan to adopt it within the next two years. The highest level of DevOps adoption is in IT services and retail, followed by healthcare and finance.
In upcoming projects, organizations will rely on the development and delivery of the latest software as part of their business model to face highly dynamic and competitive markets. So if we move further into the future of DevOps, the most popular trends will shift from Development and Operations to Test, Security, and Metrics. Let’s see how DevOps is going to revamp the entire software business…
Creating change together with Microservices and DevOps
Container Technologies has created a buzz in the market that will definitely stick around into the next decade. Microservices are a broad concept that applies to shaking up applications, solutions, or products at a more modular and granular level. Developers can implement these microservices independently, which in turn is useful for isolating failures and opening doors for faster routes to market. With DevOps clubbing with microservices, developers can work on loosely coupled applications and have the freedom to choose the technology stack according to the most suitable requirements.
Continued testing will be top priority
Continuous delivery is a lofty goal that can land you a quick ticket to digital failure if best practices are not followed. The only way to ensure that your code is standards compliant is to continually test it. With developers building microservices, more modules need to be vigorously tested. For this, developers need the ability to test code as it is produced in what is known as CONTINUOUS SHIFT LEFT TEST. Working on such tests through automation and virtualization can expand agile practices beyond development and testing; and helps eliminate long back-end cycles. This creates a culture of continuous improvement that leverages effectiveness and efficiency measures to ensure that the final product is better and 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 code to misconfigured servers and everything in between. These problems could only be solved by taking into account the security implications, principles and standards to build the applications. A new movement called DevSecOps has been implemented to meet the challenges and bring operational and technological innovation to cybersecurity. With the evolution of microservices and SDKs, developers could easily create security for products and solutions to improve the user experience. Security-related code testing requirements are very dynamic and idiosyncratic, so it’s important to unify development, security, and operations by turning it into DevSecOps.
Focus more on metrics
DevOps Metrics is a holistic way to see not only the success of the DevOps program, but also to discover how it can be changed, extended, and improved. The continuous focus of DevOps metrics is in the areas of implementation, operations and support, which helps to speed up development processes, deployment, frequency of deployments and their failures, customer responses can be measured. DevOps metrics generally fall into three categories of people, process, and technology to a greater extent, but frequency of deployment, change lead time, change failure time, and mean time to recovery must be considered to obtain 360 degrees of DevOps metrics.
Successful measurement becomes increasingly important to DevOps as organizations continue to push themselves to adopt rigorous test automation, more sophisticated pre-production security controls, and management disciplines throughout the DevOps lifecycle. With the adoption of these principles, real progress will be exhibited.