DevOps Implementation

Although DevOps culture is becoming a sought-after approach by organizations, it is essential to determine the right time to adopt it. The method is suitable for your company if you want to enhance security for the software development life cycle at speed and scale without affecting performance. Also, you can opt for DevOps if you aim to minimize risks, ensure compliance, and reduce friction and costs.

The main components are uninterrupted integration, continuous delivery, microservice architecture, infrastructure as code, continuous monitoring, communication between departments, and improved collaboration.

We can highlight some implementation problems: the need for more skills and knowledge of the DevOps methodology and a huge number of tools, which makes it baffling to choose. It is also worth noting the difficulty of shifting from legacy infrastructure to new technologies and microservices and the shift in organizational culture. There are other challenges, but you can easily solve them with a professional team and the right DevOps implementation approach.

Let's look at a few fundamental DevOps implementation strategies that can enable DevOps in any organization. 

• Infrastructure-as-a-code and automation
• Continuous integration and continuous delivery
• Microservice architecture
• Kubernetes clustering/Container management system
• Rapid feedback

The DevOps adoption by most organizations worldwide indicates its potential as a catalyst for growth. To implement DevOps best practices in delivering reliable, top-quality software faster, you need to:

• Evaluate the needs for DevOps services and align objectives with the business goals
• Gather a cross-functional team that excels at DevOps engineering skills
• Choose the right set of tools to build a complex, integrated system
• Integrate infrastructure automation with CI/CD and establish automated testing
• Monitor the performance, fix any arising issues, and scale.

You can itemize projects, automate some release processes,  write documentation, and train developers in three to six months. But three months is an aggressive approach. It is possible if you have several DevOps experts working on it full-time and you already have a strategy in place.

Your path to DevOps begins with assessing your current business operations and delivery pipelines and the clear goals you want to achieve when implementing DevOps. You will need a good DevOps transformation roadmap to get the most benefit for your company.

Good DevOps are in high demand and can be expensive. The automation and other software tools they need and additional operational costs are quickly becoming a very costly initiative. The half-finished, underfunded DevOps "efforts" will likely leave you worse off than you started.

At Relevant, we primarily use Slack, Jira, and Google Meet, so you can always join our team meetings and daily standups. Our DevOps team is highly proficient in English, so there will be no language barriers or misunderstandings.

All our developers are experienced specialists with highly technical and non-technical skills, which we check at the hiring stage. But if you need additional information, we are always ready to provide it.

We are a global software development company with delivery offices in Poland and Ukraine. Our developers work remotely from different countries.