New Trends in Devops

1: Testers need to master basic programming skills

With the rapid development of automation technology, the future competition in the IT industry will only become increasingly fierce. In addition to ensuring that applications and software are error-free, QA and testers also need to constantly improve their skills and be familiar with the latest programming technologies and industry trends.

As a simple example, tests can be roughly divided into "black box tests" and "white box tests." "Black box testing" does not require testers to have too high programming ability, many problems can be easily solved. The "white box test" is different, it requires testers to have a certain programming ability.

2: DevOps culture is an important prerequisite

For DevOps implementation, culture is a key point. To successfully implement DevOps, processes and culture are crucial. A product often requires multiple teams to collaborate, and DevOps culture is the cornerstone of integrating these teams and achieving common goals. Implementing DevOps can make it easier for companies to succeed. DevOps provides an environment for continuous learning, and its significance is extraordinary.

3: Modern Agile and Agile Heart

In the DevOps world in 2018, two new terms were born: Agile Heart and Modern Agile. Agile and Scrum development technologies were considered the best.

Modern agility is a fusion of basic principles. These principles include: trying and learning faster, shaping better people, and continuously providing value. The purpose of Agile Heart can be summarized in four words, namely: delivery, reflection, collaboration and improvement.

4: Rapid Upgrade Technology

Every day new DevOps tools and plugins are brought to market. With these rich DevOps tools, we can better focus on some key performance.

These capabilities include:

1. Cooperation vision and design possibilities.

2. Support infrastructure as code.

3. Coding ability.

4. Continuous integration.

5. Scope of deployment and automated testing.

6. The ability to monitor feedback information.

5：DevSecOps

After the cyberattack in 2017, security in the IT field became a top priority. Of course, DevOps has the necessary security measures. The security mechanism integrated within its framework will ensure the security of the application from beginning to end.

The idea advocated by DevSecOps is " security issues, everyone has a responsibility ", aiming to distribute security decisions safely, and it is the basis for ensuring security. Converting DevOps to DevSecOps may take a year, and successful implementation may take longer. However, before finally ensuring security, it can be subdivided into three stages, completed step by step.

6: Microservices and Containers

Containers and microservices depend on each other and can work with DevOps. This helps simplify production processes and improve delivery efficiency. Therefore, although microservices and DevOps can work together, enterprises can easily optimize deployability, scalability, and reliability. If properly adjusted during implementation, developers can flexibly manage the framework.

Containerization is also becoming more and more popular as an ideal deployment model. Basically they are designed to run one process at a time.

7: Use DevOps tools

Due to the increasing demand for DevOps tools in the market, each DevOps tool is expected to have unique and outstanding features, so DevOps integrated tools on the market will definitely flourish. Its continuous testing and delivery will help improve the process, so that DevOps will become more and more mature in continuous practice.

to sum up
DevOps has been around for a long time. The rapid development of the development and operations team provides high-performance services. Companies in different vertical industries are keen to integrate DevOps into their internal departments. More and more companies adopt DevOps, and the number is still growing rapidly.

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1. Modern Technical Project Management

Software continues to have a world-wide impact. There are now 23M software developers and 100M+ technical team members world-wide, according to Atlassian. Technical project management tools that were sufficient in the past are no longer good enough.

The technical project management market is at a tipping point. Not only is the category incredibly large at $35B, according to Atlassian, but it is dominated by Atlassian’s own product, Jira, that is ripe for disruption. While Jira is a market leader it is also a dated product. Created in 2002, Jira was originally built for an on-prem deployment. Our research suggests it is generally disliked because it’s difficult to use and maintain. User conversations suggest that Jira is often slow, worsening developer productivity. While we hear users call it “infinitely customizable,” this functionality is both a blessing and a curse. Generally, Jira requires a full-time administrator to manage.

2. Alerting

We appreciate that complex infrastructure and legacy processes increase risk, which makes modern incident response solutions, both preventative (Gremlin) and post-incident (alerting), necessary (more work here). Businesses lose up to $500K of revenue for every minute of downtime, so an intelligent, efficient, and fast alerting system is critical for decreasing mean time to resolution.

Alerting solutions inform employees of issues and orchestrate teams to resolve immediate problems (on-call management/scheduling). Alerting mitigates business disruption to reduce downtime and improve SLA performance. It can also increase revenue and improve customer experience, boost people productivity and engagement, and improve cost efficiency.

3. Security-as-Code

Infrastructure-as-Code has been around for a few years and “is the process of managing and provisioning computer data centers through machine-readable definition files, rather than physical hardware configuration or interactive configuration tools.” Defined another way, infrastructure as code means teams manage infrastructure using configuration files. Redpoint portfolio company HashiCorp embodies this practice.

Recently we’ve seen the application of infrastructure as code to security, Security-as-Code (SaC). According to O’Reilly, “Security-as-Code is about building security into DevOps tools and practices, making it an essential part of the tool chains and workflows.” It entails adding security checks, tests, and gateways to the software development process by tying into CI/CD. Security-as-Code integrates security into product development and involves developers in the process.