It is true that the daily routine of an IT team is often chaotic. After all, technological advancement has contributed to the establishment of an increasingly disruptive scenario, and in the pursuit of innovation, along with the "obligation" to maintain an increasingly secure and stable environment, professionals end up in conflict.

The good news is: DevOps emerged precisely to minimize these issues, reduce the occurrence of problems, seek solutions, and strengthen both work fronts.

Furthermore, it is worth mentioning that there is no exact formula for integrating this methodology. Quite the opposite, it must be included in a company's routine through a combination that makes sense and positively impacts the work of the teams. To achieve this, it is structured on four pillars: Communication, Collaboration, Automation, and Monitoring.

Learn more about them in the article that the CodeBlog team has prepared for you.

1. Communication

Considering that the main mission of infrastructure professionals is to protect the company's technological environment, it is natural that, to do so, they must keep the entire environment constantly available, avoiding major changes to prevent potential downtime and working together to control all new versions and software updates.

On the other hand, the development team aims to make quick deliveries to add more value to the business.

In view of this, it is necessary to have new environments to accelerate testing, deploy new updates, and work to ensure that resources are made available quickly.

Throughout this process, the teams can come into conflict. After all, they focus on different demands.

In this context, DevOps emerges with the proposal to build a communication bridge between sectors, so that the problems of each area are understood, and potential solutions are analyzed and found, thus facilitating contact between employees.

In other words, based on mutual recognition, communication in DevOps works to create processes that assist in the relationship between teams and in the integration of people.

2. Collaboration

Following this logic, collaboration is the step that succeeds communication. After all, more than just understanding the processes and limitations found in the relationship between teams, it is necessary to overcome conflicts and, in this way, do good work together.

That is, more than recognizing problems and difficulties, it is important to discuss solutions, and above all, test them so they can be put into practice.

At this stage, maintaining close contact is essential. To do this, the company can choose the most viable channel, such as chats, instant messaging applications, or alignment meetings. What is indispensable is that difficulties are overcome so that both teams help each other and, as a consequence, know how to handle this situation.

3. Automation

As surprising as it may seem, the truth is that many companies and IT teams still perform several operational steps manually.

Since DevOps also aims for innovation, it is certain that, within the methodology, teams are responsible for creating and applying automation processes, so that repetitive and laborious tasks can be performed automatically, with greater speed and efficiency.

Continuous Integration

Through continuous integration – a software development practice where developers centralize code changes in a repository - the Development, Operations, and QA departments can exchange information, share knowledge, and apply automated tests before application deployment.

Continuous Delivery

Meanwhile, continuous delivery allows for the quick and constant release of new software and service versions. In addition, it integrates a set of practices aimed at ensuring that developed code is properly ready to be shared in the production environment.

Continuous Deployment

With Continuous Deployment, whenever a new change is committed to the central repository, a process is automatically started so that the changes are accessed in the target environment. In this way, the teams involved provide frequent feedback across all processes involving the software or service lifecycle.

DevOpsTesting

This is the term that seeks to connect DevOps with quality assurance work, aiming to establish Continuous Testing environments, making them part of the development process.

4. Monitoring

Last but not least, the monitoring pillar involves the work of tracking and analyzing all stages of DevOps to identify what is working and what needs to be optimized.

To do this, various tools can be tested and used to generate automated reports.

However, before that, it is necessary to establish metrics, require a standard of control, and, above all, monitor all stages. After all, only with collected and analyzed data is it possible to generate insights about processes and establish improvements.

Conclusion

With so many advantages, it is a fact that DevOps can make all the difference for your business.

If after learning about the structure, you wish to apply the concept to improve, streamline, and guarantee quality deliveries for your company's IT activities, contact the team of specialists at CodeBit and discover tailored solutions to meet your demands.

Furthermore, keep an eye on CodeBlog. Soon, we will have plenty of updates here.

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