Here’s What Good Looks Like In DevOps
A healthy DevOps culture is one of the key ingredients of high-performing software delivery teams. It enables faster delivery cycles with less bottlenecks and dependencies between teams.
DevOps in itself has as many definitions as there are practitioners. For us at Releaseworks, DevOps is a methodology that combines tools, technologies and ways of working that emphasize shared responsibilities in an organization. Typical DevOps tools and technologies concentrate on infrastructure and pipeline automation.
As a technology leader, why should you care about DevOps?
In our experience, teams that implement DevOps enjoy faster time-to-market and less customer-facing outages than their competitors.
When compared to a traditional development / operations split, a DevOps culture also tends to lead to a better functioning work environment, where everyone in the team is responsible for the success of their product.
Here are 7 signs that you’re getting DevOps right:
Software releases can happen multiple times each day, or as often as needed
Software releases are business as usual for you - you release small changes automatically, incrementally, and reliably (Continuous Delivery)
You can create testing & demo environments automatically on demand for every feature branch
You are confident in your QA and testing frameworks - all critical problems can be caught and remediated before a software release
If you have a production incident, you have the monitoring and processes in place to remediate most problems automatically and with minimal customer impact
Your build, test and deployment pipelines are reliable and standardised, using centrally-maintained components but owned by your delivery team
Your delivery team owns their product end-to-end, from ideation to production
At Releaseworks, our mission is to supercharge DevOps for the world’s leading software teams.
Releaseworks® DevOps & cloud engineers are certified, senior experts in cloud infrastructure and pipeline automation. We don’t just follow best practices - we set them. Read more about what we do.
