For starters, it is important to understand that Cloud computing and DevOps are interrelated in several ways.
You might want to ask why? Good question. DevOps, on one hand, involves collating user’s requirements from their use of certain applications and turning these requirements into other apps. Cloud, on the other hand, is an automatic system. Every user change or requirement is automatically adjusted to by the Cloud.
Here comes the problem
When operating with DevOps in the Cloud, understanding the best practices might be difficult because both areas of technology are still fresh. However, the problem lies with the IT professionals who do these operations and not with the system. And since the problem is human and not a machine, it poses an even harder nut to crack.
However, we shouldn’t give up on making ourselves better. To successfully use DevOps in the Cloud, here are 9 effective practices you must adhere to and uphold.
Acquire Extensive And Detailed Training For DevOps Cloud Computing
The implementation of DevOps in the Cloud isn’t a walk in the park. It is both culturally and technologically challenging and would require every bit of mind and heart that you can muster to keep up with the consistently changing tech.
Even for organizational heads, detailed knowledge of DevOps in the Cloud cannot be over-emphasized. DevOps users must cooperate to get extensive training on the platform and Cloud computing if they are to make the best of their application.
Security Shouldn’t Be Overlooked
Cloud computing offers a guarantee of security especially via an identification-based technology or security model.
This security system must be extended to the DevOps system as well.
The security system should be made in such a way that it integrates and deploys continuously, every process that is migrated to the Cloud. This might sound a little off the mark for you but you could hire a Cloud security expert who will be in charge of security of your DevOps in the Cloud.
Make use of versatile DevOps tools
Some DevOps tools can work with several Cloud. A common pattern of selection of DevOps tools by most people is using one with little resistance, especially from public Cloud providers. The tools provided by these Cloud providers are more concerned about application deployment and work pretty well with DevOps, but that might be myopic.
Why get tied down on a Cloud platform when you can have several? If your application is deployed on several Cloud platforms (whether public or private), you would have a broader reach into selecting a suitable Cloud for your tasks – no limits to your choices!
Services And Resources Governance Is Another Big Area
Rest assured that you'll reach a point where services and resources become unmanageable and cumbersome – that’s a tipping point. That point can be under a year or more depending on the nature of data being managed. This is where services and resources governance comes into play. This area is often overlooked in Cloud and DevOps until that ‘tipping point’.
It only makes sense to build a governance framework in advance. By so doing, you must have set the tone for how services and resources will be tracked and managed. You may have also created a leveraging point as to when services and resources data can be accessed, what can be accessed and so on.
Incorporate Automated Performance Test
In a Cloud computing setting, application design often affects performance. Performance issues are hardly checked by most developers and hence its consumers that end up experiencing and reporting such, which is a recipe to kill a business.
Your DevOps must involve automated performance testing prominently to avoid letting an ill-performing application into the production line and also to avoid wrongly charged on resources from the Cloud providers.
Automated performance testing allows for efficient performance and the use of available resources. It should also be aligned with accuracy and stability testing as well as existing user interface and APIs.
There Must Be Efficient Funding In DevOps In Cloud Transformation
DevOps and Cloud on their own enable you to save cost but not after about 2 years into the use. This time is taken to understand your operations, integrate modern tech and function independently for the meantime. after this time, you can begin production.
Containers
For easy compartmentalization of your applications for hitch-free management, containers are worth it and should be integrated into your DevOps in the Cloud system. However, containers aren't a one-size-fits-all kind of tool but they have features than can be useful in your strategy. You should look at your application architecture and find out how containers can be of help.
Avoid Cramming Apps Into The Cloud
Think about the cost, priority order, amount of work needed, and technological base of the app before migration to the Cloud. Even if you have thousands of apps to migrate, the above considerations would drastically reduce how much you relocate to the Cloud at a time.
Your Applications Ought To Be Cloud-Native
Running applications in the Cloud saves cost but when your applications become attached with physical resources, the deployment and development of your app can improve at a staggering 70% efficiency. Decoupling from physical resources like the application architecture design can make your apps run smoothly on the Cloud, accumulating smaller monthly bills on Cloud services.
Since ADOP (DevOps platform) is designed to be continually processing and projecting continuous project deliveries, it becomes way easier as it is aligned with Cloud computing for more efficient results.
Enterprises now see DevOps as a quicker means of getting to the Cloud because it speeds up the application development process, which is responsible for stunted growth in some organizations.
Take a company finding it hard to develop and launch new products simply because the IT department has a hard time tracking app development backlog. These enterprises are running to Cloud knowing that DevOps isn't what they really need but Cloud, on the other hand, wouldn’t have its full value without DevOps.
It goes without saying that DevOps Cloud as a platform works hand in hand with the Cloud computing platform to bring about efficient computation and timely delivery of enterprise data requirements.
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