What is DevOps

DevOps is a coordinated effort between IT operations and software development teams that promotes collaboration, communication and integration. For DevOps to be an effective part of your IT team, software development can no longer operate in isolated silos. Instead, application development and releases are divided into stages — delivering reliability, integrity and high availability.

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1. Overview

If you want to improve your software delivery, build a culture of agility and automation, accelerate software releases, and harness the power of the cloud, we can help. The first step is to adopt a modern way of developing and releasing software by unifying software development and IT operations, also called DevOps.

New to DevOps? Learn what DevOps is.

Improved customer satisfaction rates propel top-performing companies to adopt DevOps, and we want you to be next. Here’s what you can expect from our DevOps engineering experts:

  • Current state assessment
  • Roadmap and future state
  • Strategy, design, and implementation
  • Effective DevOps toolsets that help you achieve CI/CD
  • Alert and security automation
  • Collaboration tools, role building and team integration
  • DevOps advisory services for your whole team
  • Ongoing performance optimization

2. Start here: Building a DevOps culture

DevOps is more related to company culture than technological execution. As such, it requires a complete overhaul of your company’s organizational practices. Incomplete code testing and deployment are replaced by more robust procedures. Teams that adopt a DevOps approach help ingrain new practices and leadership goals.

RTS Labs helps clients practice DevOps thinking right from the beginning. Our solution-based step-by-step approach ensures that the entire team successfully migrates to the new dev + ops culture with improved collaboration and accelerated deploy cycles. This results in a fast, secure, and agile enterprise. It’s a proven approach that always achieves results for the businesses we work with.

3. Making the move to DevOps cloud computing

DevOps doesn’t require your applications and services to be on the cloud, but it does enable cloud computing and optimize for it. DevOps principles and practices directly address challenges posed by the cloud.

After moving to the cloud, the next logical step is deployed DevOps. Our experience has shown that infrastructure involving DevOps poses the least risk when migrating data and helps ensure that everything’s in order.

An all-inclusive process that asks for opinions from all stakeholders helps address the unique challenges inherent to cloud infrastructure. Our team takes all stakeholder input into consideration, whether it be about development, operations, testing, or information security.

An all-inclusive process that asks for opinions from all stakeholders helps address the unique challenges inherent to cloud infrastructure. Our team takes all stakeholder input into consideration, whether it be about development, operations, testing, or information security.

4. DevOps automation consulting

DevOps uses automation to get things done. Automation tools are redundant and inefficient without proper implementation, and that’s where our team comes in. We consider your goals and align those goals with automation to reduce errors.

Automation can be included at various points in the development, deployment, and monitoring cycle:

  • Developing code
  • Testing and verifying code
  • Creating a test environment and infrastructure
  • Successfully deploying code
  • Data collection
  • Creating security notifications
  • Executing the entire DevOps pipeline

5. Agile methodology + DevOps

Agile (the de facto standard in software development) and DevOps are a natural pairing.

DevOps is often called an evolution from Agile, because they complement each other. Shorter development cycles and feedback acquisition are major benefits of both systems.

With our holistic DevOps professional services team, we help you build an Agile framework that will increase overall efficiency by modernizing your operations, your team, and your process.

6. Let’s start a successful DevOps journey together

DevOps assessment & strategy: Our experienced team will analyze your current DevOps environment and processes, providing you with an executive summary report which includes a high-level roadmap for recommended improvements.

DevOps bundle: This bundled stack is for organizations looking to revamp their existing DevOps processes and toolsets. We will deploy a set of virtual images of your existing servers to AWS, Azure, GCP, or private cloud. Then we’ll use a selection of the best industry tools to refine your existing processes, and we’ll provide thorough training. Our mission is to create a reliable and capable base for your DevOps platform, fully managed by our team, with streamlined support and maintenance.