Looking for a way to maximize your employees time? Don’t waste time doing things the old fashion way. Having a dedicated DevOps team to automate key software and applications. Giving you a running start in maximizing your employees time, reducing potential costly human errors and letting you focus on delivering new products to your clients quicker.
What is DevOps?
DevOps in previous decades had traditionally operated within a silo, isolated from the larger IT group. Agile development practices, infrastructure and operations, have brought a new relationship to the forefront. DevOps is the practice of operations and development engineers participating together in the entire service lifecycle, from design through the development process to production support.
What are DevOps Practices?
Continuous Integration
A practice in which development teams merge code
changes into a central repository on a regular basis, the automated builds and tests are run. This method allows developers to address bugs quicker, improve software quality and reduce the time it takes to release new software updates.
Continuous Delivery
A software practice in which code changes are automatically tested, build and prepared for a release to production. Co-existing with continuous integration by deploying all code changes to a testing environment, then a production environment.
Micro Services
A modern approach to building software in which
application are build a set of small services, each with a single service
purpose. You can use different frameworks or programming languages to write micro services and deploy them independently, as a single service, or as a group of services.
Infrastructure of Code
Infrastructure as code is the process of managing and provisioning
computer data centers through machine-readable definition files, rather than physical hardware configuration or interactive configuration tools.
Monitoring and Logging
By capturing, categorizing and analyzing data and logs organizations can understand better how changes or updates will impact users. Active monitoring is necessary in a world of 24/7 service availability to prevent unexpected outages and proactively monitor for issues.
Collaboration
The use of DevOps tools and automation establishes collaboration by physically bringing together the workflow and responsibilities of development and operations.
Industry tools we use:
- Ansible
- Chef
- Puppet
- Jenkins
- Gradle
- Git
- Bamboo
- Docker
- Nagios
- Raygun
How DevOps can help your business?
Better customer service – By being able to increase the frequency of deployments you are also increasing recovery times, lowering change failure rates and getting products out to customers quicker. Resulting in over all improvement in customer service.
Solve problems faster – The longer it takes to fix a problem, the more money your company is loosing. When you are able to solve problems more rapidly, you can get back on track sooner.
More time for innovation – When you can streamline processes, produce more stable builds and release new products more efficiently you give your employees more time for innovation. Which in turn means increased employee satisfaction and retention rates.
Faster time-to-market – When your employees are working together more closely you are able to deploy new processes, systems and applications more rapidly.
Stability – Customers expect 24/7 availability. Any downtime in your product can result in loss of revenue, brand loyalty and customer satisfaction. DevOps principles ensure everything is monitored, every change is known and everyone understands how each release impacts quality.
By implementing DevOps practices within your organization you are providing your company and employees with the tools they need to succeed. Excel SoftSources is ready to help you increase customer satisfaction, employee collaboration and retention. All while decreasing production downtime, employee dissatisfaction and product disruptions through dedicated DevOps employees. Our employees are trained in agile development and ready to hit the ground running. Contact us today!