In the dynamic world of today organizations need to innovate faster! Automating and streamlining the software development and infrastructure management processes with apt tooling is the only way to do so. 

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With the practice of performing very frequent but small updates, organizations have started to innovate faster for their customers. These updates make each deployment less risky & help teams address bugs faster as teams can identify the last deployment that caused the error. Even though the tempo and size of updates will vary, organizations using a DevOps model deploy updates much more often than organizations using traditional software development practices.

Microservices architecture is also used by organisations to make their applications more flexible and enable quicker innovation. However, more deployments needed can present operational challenges. But with DevOps practices like continuous integration and continuous delivery, these issues are solved and let organizations deliver rapidly in a safe and reliable manner. Apart from that, monitoring and logging helps engineers track the performance of applications and infrastructure so they can react quickly to problems.

DevOps Practices

Continuous Integration

Developers regularly merge their code changes into a central repository, after which automated builds and tests are run. This helps to find and address bugs quicker, improve software quality, and reduce the time it takes to validate and release new software updates.

Continuous Delivery

Code changes are automatically built, tested, and prepared for a release to production. Continuous integration is done deploying all code changes to a testing environment and/or a production environment after the build stage.

Microservices

A design approach to build a single application as a set of small services. With this large, complex systems are divided into simple, independent projects. Each application gets broken down into many individual components (services) with each service assigned to a single purpose or function and operated independently. This architecture reduces the organisation overhead of updating applications as a whole with each change. You can use different frameworks or programming languages to write microservices and deploy them independently, as a single service, or as a group of services.

Infrastructure as Code

Infrastructure is provisioned and managed using code and software development techniques like version control and continuous integration. This  model enables developers and system administrators to interact with infrastructure programmatically, and at scale. 

Monitoring and Logging

DevOps capture, categorise and then analyse data and logs generated by applications. As services today must be available 24/7 and as application and infrastructure update frequency increases, active monitoring becomes increasingly important. Creating alerts or performing real-time analysis of this data also helps organizations more proactively monitor their services.

Communication & Collaboration

The use of DevOps tooling and automation of the software delivery process creates collaboration by physically bringing together the workflows and responsibilities of development and operations.