Five Critical Advantages Of Devops Automation
Automation is the wave of the future. To efficiently manage and run an application environment with constant updates, releases, and strict quality assurance standards you must be continually testing infrastructure, configuring networks, and dealing with maintenance, upgrades, and transitions for your infrastructure and the applications that run on it. Automation makes these traditional manual software development hurdles manageable and scalable. It also produces better business benefits than traditional ops.
Implementing DevOps automation into your software development workflow can dramatically improve productivity and security as well as speed up time to deployment. One study found that 63% of teams that implemented DevOps saw an improved quality in their software performance. Do you want to maximize your productivity and automate redundant or inefficient processes?
Read on to find out the five critical advantages of DevOps automation.
Improved Developer Productivity
With DevOps, what previously took 6 developers 12 hours can take three developers half the time. DevOps frees up valuable time, talent, and resources to further grow and scale your business while remaining agile and adapting to your ever-evolving business needs. Did you know that 63% of automated DevOps environments release new software more frequently than traditional software development? It’s no wonder that with automated DevOps your business can race miles ahead of competitors and produce better quality results in less time with the same team.
According to a study from DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) and Google Cloud, DevOps teams in the elite tier have an almost 50% increase in code deployment frequency, and an astounding 2,555 times faster lead time from commitment to deployment. These elite performance teams also have a 7 times lower change failure rate and over 2,000 times faster time to recovery from incidents. What could your team do with faster lead times and lower failure rates? DevOps automation reduces human error and allows the development team to focus on the most pertinent issues while automation takes care of repetitive tasks.
Faster Time to Market
Although nearly 40% of organizations are using DevOps in some form, 60% have not even considered utilizing DevOps yet, according to studies from 451 Research. With statistics like this, it is easy to see why automated DevOps is the wave of the future. DevOps streamlines your organization’s development structure with the goal of making it more flexible, dynamic, and effective. This streamlined approach is necessary when focusing on a faster time to market.
An automated DevOps approach helps reign in the often sprawling processes and workflows that consume more than their fair share of resources and hold back the flexibility, agility, and means of the development team. By automating processes, procedures, and updates your developers can focus on hard-hitting puzzles and spend less time on mindless work that doesn’t add value to your business. Leave the boring stuff to the automation – let your well-trained developers focus their time on what matters and help your business get to market faster.
Devops Enables Rapid Issue Resolution
Did you know DevOps teams spend 21% less time putting out fires on a weekly basis when compared to Traditional Ops teams, according to a recent survey? DevOps teams also spend 33% more time improving infrastructure against failures according to a recent survey. DevOps delivers software more efficiently and accommodates your business needs. As your business grows, your DevOps strategy can grow with you.
According to a recent report, about 52% of businesses surveyed said they have experienced disruptions in their critical systems at least once per month. Of those businesses surveyed almost half said that their teams work with up to six or more monitoring systems. Shockingly only 27% of those polled are consolidating alerts in one place. These IT teams are dealing with far too much noise to produce an effective product. Missing alerts, outages, and facing engineer burnout, which 85% said they did, can have a disastrous effect on your business.
Devops Allows for Simpler Scalability
DevOps automation goes hand in hand with scaling your business smoothly. One of the key tenets of DevOps is effective communication between all parts of your development team, IT team, and management team. When your development team members utilize automated testing for their development process you can quickly find, address, and fix issues as they occur.
Process improvements like this create a more secure, scalable, and bug-free development environment where DevOps engineers can automate, innovate, and grow processes with your business. With a small agile team of key players, you can automate the headaches and get back to rapid development. The 2016 State of DevOps Report demonstrates that organizations that are considered high-performing when they spend 50% less time on unplanned work, or reworking faulty code. What do they do with all those added hours?
IT Operational Efficiency and Infrastructure Reduction
IT operational efficiency and infrastructure reduction are two of the best driving factors for implementing DevOps automation into your business. Using these automation tools in your testing process, implementing open source tools, and utilizing continuous deployment frees up valuable space and time from your operation team calendars, and produces greater efficiency and infrastructure reduction. DevOps automation creates noteworthy improvements in developer productivity that reduce the time needed for new features to roll out and takes time away from troubleshooting. This results in a reduction in the overall cost of operations for your business, which is something every business owner would love to see in 2020.
ThorTech Solutions works to automate many DevOps features to further improve the rapidity of your deployments and make the most effective use of your team. Our DevOps Automation Specialists begin by working with your team to understand your business objectives, your current approach to software development, and your current SDLC. We will conduct a thorough review of your current processes and compare them against best practices to provide a comprehensive roadmap for improving your software development approach. We maintain a focus on automating as many services as possible. Companies see dramatic improvements in their software quality and time to market within weeks of implementing a DevOps automation approach.