DevOps Overview

 

How should organizations transition to an agile, flexible enterprise that implements automation best practices and continuous improvement-based governance with high-performing, innovative teams? There are three key elements to transitioning to a DevOps approach and improving existing practices: assess, roadmap, and execute.

• Assess:

It is important to understand the starting point. The role of DevOps is to execute, measure, and improve. Starting the process without information can lead to overestimating needs in some areas and missing important improvements in others.

• Roadmap:

Once an assessment of the starting point has been established, it is time to answer the key question: what are the key goals of your DevOps transformation? What business outcomes will be used as metrics?The most important considerations are: Avoid false metrics related to volume or number of stories delivered, and instead focus on metrics related to change lead time, change rate error, or other similar measures.Other considerations include communicating the strategy across the company.Are there other transformation efforts, such as automation, that need to be integrated to avoid duplication of effort? In many cases, a transformation office can help ensure all efforts are aligned.

• Execution:

How will your company grow to deliver agility, speed, and improved customer experiences? How will you drive the transition to cloud-native applications and solutions while leveraging cloud-native best practices? What steps will you need to take to progress along the path ?

Creating a specific backlog aligned with your

DevOps transformation combines execution and metrics. User stories like these are the building blocks to success.

• As an architect, you want to improve your standard gold imaging process for hpe to meet industry standards with Center for Internet Security (CIS) and support automation.

• As a security architect, you want to ensure SSO requirements are enforced across the organization to ensure identity and access are integrated across systems.

• As a cloud/DevOps architect, you need to establish a CI/CD pipeline that can support your adoption goals on-prem and in the public cloud to help your organization achieve workload portability, resiliency, and disaster recovery (DR) goals.  You can start your journey with a current state assessment, a strategic roadmap, and a backlog covering different areas of change, or you can use the same process to increase your DevOps maturity.