Digital transformation, in the context of a company, occurs when it takes full advantage of a combination of digital technologies to transform its activities, processes, competencies and models, taking into account present and future changes. The question we want to answer here is whether DevOps and Cloud are essential to such a transformation, and if so, why?
First, let’s consider DevOps and what it means for your digital transformation efforts. DevOps is also a fairly new concept for most people. DevOps is gaining in importance as most of the software companies provide software as a service and operate their product on behalf of their customers. Refers to the involvement of development and operations engineers throughout the service lifecycle of a product, from design through the development process to production support. It is also characterized by the fact that the operations staff uses many of the same techniques as the developers for the work of their systems, automating the agile methodology. DevOps changes development in its entirety and specifically redefines cloud development by enabling real-time, responsive development to meet business needs.
The importance of digital transformation lies in:
1. The DevOps culture and set of processes enable products to be created and improved at a much faster rate, providing continuous software delivery, improving functionality and fostering innovation. The collaborative way of operating also reduces complexity and encourages innovation and helps digital transformation efforts.
2. Companies today must change the way they work, they must shorten work cycles, increase delivery frequency and continuously experiment to ensure that their products are responsive and innovatively designed to meet the needs of their customers. DevOps meets these expectations.
3. With DevOps, developers no longer work in silos, not knowing what operations they want. They don’t write code and submit it and ignore the issue after that. They now have improved visibility into how the app works and are responsive and nimble enough to make sure it meets user needs.
4. DevOps is especially useful for a cloud development project as it improves the speed of delivery of application development to meet business needs faster, responding faster to user requirements, and reducing costs of development, testing , implementation and operations.
5. The cloud platform offers a centralized business system for DevOps to test their development, deploy and go into production easily, without a distributed business system complicating such development.
6. Most private cloud providers support DevOps systematically on their platform, making DevOps cloud-centric to enable continuous integration and provide tools for continuous development as well as governance and control centralized over the various departments.
Centralized development and shared test environments lead to waste while polluting test data and creating higher demands on resources. By leveraging cloud-based resources, the endless wait for capital resources to be approved and available is over. With cloud DevOps, it becomes very easy to track resource usage by application, developer, user, data, etc., reducing the need to track them separately. This mutual dependency is making DevOps drive the growth of the cloud, reinforcing each other and allowing the growth of the company itself.