How to DevOps strategy, let's not make it complicated.

Today, successful enterprises must be agile enough to offer flawless digital solutions while constantly responding to fluctuating market, customer demands, and competitive pressures. 

For many leaders (myself included), it can be challenging to fully understand DevOps and its operations. Too often, this lack of understanding prevents enterprises from adopting a holistic approach to DevOps as a productive, business-driven software delivery system.

Let me briefly elaborate on the simple and best possible DevOps strategy to smoothly adopt DevOps culture, tools and processes. I am learning along the way and still maturing myself, systems and people around.

There are many key factors that are required for DevOps to be successful in an organization but I will start with the paramount basic steps.

Say goodbye to legacy systems

Unfortunately, many enterprises rely on legacy systems to support different processes throughout the software and product development life cycle. Not surprisingly, these methods aren’t nearly as flexible as they need to be for today’s agile workflows and processes.

To keep up with the pace of software and app releases, your developers and product teams need the ability to automate different test scenarios quickly, continuously, and in real-time. Your teams do not have months and weeks to test, analyze, and update code before a new release. 

As convenient and trusted as legacy systems are, if you are serious about DevOps, updating your legacy systems and architecture should be a primary focus. I know this is usually the biggest challenge but this is the primary requirement for a successful DevOps setup.

Focus on the right emerging technologies

As a leader, you should have a thorough understanding of your organization’s products/services, audience, and competition. These factors will dictate what technologies to focus DevOps teams on. DO NOT jump to technologies that are trending and try to fit them in your technology echo system just because they are trending...

Adopt Cloud infra model

DevOps bests suits and run on cloud infra model, there are definitely challenges for the organization that cannot move their workloads to public clouds for security and regulatory reasons however there are options of building private clouds that can support in setting up DevOps echo system.

Build A Solid team

DevOps is not a fancy term or name of tools, it requires solid team players with solid skills in Systems, networking, IT Operations, SDLC, Scripting, Automation, virtualization and orchestration, and more importantly the new concepts of microservices. Only a skillful team can give you self-driven Development and Operation setup.