09/22/2022 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 09/22/2022 13:32
DevOps automation speeds up development, reduces code complexity, and eliminates DevOps silos. Start with DevOps automation tools today.
Staying ahead of customer needs requires speed and agility from all phases of the software development life cycle (SDLC). DevOps automation can help to drive reliability across the SDLC and accelerate time-to-market for software applications and new releases.
Because organizations face increasing pressure in today's competitive digital landscape, employing DevOps automation tools is essential to provide a frictionless digital experience that customers can access on any device, from anywhere, and at any time.
DevOps automation is a set of tools and technologies that perform routine, repeatable tasks that engineers would otherwise do manually. Automating tasks throughout the SDLC helps software development and operations teams collaborate while continuously improving how they design, build, test, deploy, release, and monitor software applications. The two primary goals of automating DevOps are to increase cross-team collaboration and automate repetitive manual tasks.
DevOps automation tools speed up delivery cycles by reducing human error and bottlenecks, resulting in fewer and shorter feedback loops. This increased efficiency applies to the most recent code committed to a repository to the final release and delivery of an application or service upgrade.
This incremental software development and continuous deployment approach evolves and is optimized further with Kubernetes, containers, and microservices infrastructure.
Automation is critical for organizations looking to scale. According to the 2021 DevOps report, a majority of DevOps leaders (98%) report that extending DevOps to more applications is key to digital transformation. They also agree that modernizing their tool stacks is a priority to increase developer productivity.
As your team begins its journey toward DevOps automation, consider tracking key DevOps metrics such as the following to help assess your organization's progress and to encourage buy-in from reluctant stakeholders:
Automation across the SDLC breaks down isolated, company-wide silos and reduces time-intensive, manual CI/CD processes. The result is that development teams become proactive rather than reactive. Moreover, automation frees up time for fail-safe innovation, and shifting left supports event-driven, SRE-inspired DevOps.
Some benefits of DevOps automation include the following:
Depending on existing business goals, desired outcomes, and the current state of an organization's unique cloud adoption journey, implementing an automated DevOps and IT framework solution can be straightforward or relatively challenging.
Whether the computing environment is located on-premises, in a public cloud service, or in a hybrid cloud infrastructure, the following DevOps processes are good candidates for automation:
There is no standard approach to DevOps automation. Organizations can drive automation, observability, self-healing, and vulnerability management across the SDLC in many ways, including self-service observability and monitoring-as-code approaches across the DevOps lifecycle. These methods allow development and IT operations teams to build feedback loops into their applications in just a few clicks. In addition, implementing AIOps as part of any cloud adoption strategy is critical to driving innovation forward.
Dynatrace's approach to DevOps, driven by answers and intelligent observability, can help your organization jumpstart its DevOps automation journey. With AI at its core, the Dynatrace platform's precise root cause and auto-remediation capabilities eliminate silos and improve collaboration to help you streamline and scale your DevOps efforts.
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