DevOps have transformed the IT cloud industry by improving overall production processes. In fact, it’s proven to help developers deploy software 208 times more often.
So how does DevOps integrate with IT? What performance management solutions does it provide? Keep reading to find out.
What Are DevOps Performance Management Solutions?
Performance management cloud solutions offer technical and ideological strategies to improve IT production.
IT operations integrate with other teams in software development. These other teams include development engineers and quality assurance testers.
1. The Agile Methodology
Agile project management is a strategy that uses incremental steps towards project completion.
In software, each incremental step uses customer feedback to improve software versions.
Each version is an “iteration” that offers consistently better content to consumers. DevOps engineers using this strategy practice “continuous delivery.”
In contrast to long-term planning, the Agile strategy requires short-term improvements. Progress occurs in bursts rather than in long large-scale projects.
2. The ITIL Methodology
ITIL stands for Information Technology Infrastructure Library. This is a compilation of IT best practices established in 1980. Today, ITIL emphasizes a strict method of meeting expectations.
This includes meeting expectations in SLAs) Service-level agreements (SLAs). Each SLA may have specific metrics to determine whether a service meets expectations. In IT, some of these metrics include:
- Deployment frequency
- Change failure rate
- Lead-time for code changes
- Mean time to resolve (MTTR)
Deployment frequency indicates how quickly a DevOps team ships software to production.
However, it largely depends on other metrics like change failure. This shows how often services fail before entering production.
Lead-time indicates how long code changes took between development and production.
Finally, the mean time to resolve (MTTR) represents the time it takes to bring services back online.
Unlike Agile, delivering on specific metrics like these is a priority in ITIL. Agile relies on a more trial and error system of constant improvement.
Meanwhile, ITIL relies on reaching established goals without trial and error.
3. Infrastructure as a Code (IaC)
For IT professionals, strategies like Agile require frequent code deployment. Software must undergo rigorous testing early in development.
An AWS DevOps agency may use infrastructure as a code (IaC) to automate testing and deployment.
IaC allows developers to automate direct software changes through Command Line Interfacing (CLI).
Changes then migrate through a container, virtual machine (VM), and a private cloud. Scripts are produced as track records of these locations for each change.
For DevOps teams, these automated changes streamline the process of production. The operations team can continue deploying software without waiting for changes from developers.
4. Microservices
Eliminating bottlenecks in IT processes is an important part of DevOps. These bottlenecks, or simple points of failure (SPOFs), occur in different parts of an app. Team members use microservices to target each SPOF separately.
SPOFs are independently deployable, so they only affect specific parts of an application. DevOps teams can then isolate application issues without changing the entire application.
5. Incident Monitoring
Before DevOps teams can deploy microservices, they have to receive alerts about SPOFs.
Incident monitoring allows DevOps to minimize the mean time to detect (MTTD) bugs. Although incidents are software-related, they develop from a variety of sources.
Implementing Performance Management Solutions
DevOps is all about building cross-functional teams.
Performance management solutions involve both technical and ideological approaches. Implementing these solutions requires using the methodologies to inform the tools.
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