A Journey with DevOps

It is recommended to plan your journey, before getting too excited on something you’re interested in. In this case, to embrace DevOps, perhaps these few tips will get you on the right track.

Struggling with deciding on how you should start DevOps?

Let’s start with a short introduction on What is DevOps? DevOps is a set of practice that combines developer and operation team’s workflow for a smoother collaboration and productivity. This can happen by automating infrastructure, workflow and continuously measuring application performance.

First and foremost, what are the few steps to embrace the DevOps practice?

Have a DevOps Mindset
DevOps is not about all the tools you can get or the software you can buy. It’s more of the philosophy, culture and way of approaching a task. You may want to identify the current application of the funnels of development all the way to production. Understanding the limitation and queues in order to concentrate on the necessary in improving the process. On the other hand, you would need to encourage your company to question their process flow and their business value upon it in order to find the loophole on the efficiency of an organization.

Take Baby Steps to Adopt DevOps
Start slowly by taking advantage of identifying a pilot application and form a cross-functional DevOps team that consist of development, test and operations. This is to put a test to your value stream and determine all the limitations while crafting an initial deployment pipeline. In other words, focus on targeting your biggest limitation and solving it. This could aid to a larger impact to businesses.

Deep Dive Into DevOps Foundation
After learning the funnel or product development all the way to production, you may also choose to build up your foundation of DevOps skills with trainings and courses. Before that, a research on the objective of each courses are ideal as there are several courses for DevOps. Scrum, Kanban and Agile are 3 of the few popular methods on DevOps and are often mentioned by IT Professionals.