Adopt continuous automation in DevOps to accelerate your business

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  • July 24, 2019

Internet, connectivity, and software technologies have raised high user expectations towards service performance, quality, and reliability.

Over the years businesses deployed new releases using the traditional waterfall methodology until Agile and DevOps hit the ground. All of a sudden every organization has jumped off to become parallel with Agile by escalating their processes and deploying the system versions in a matter of weeks.

Every organization was in a hurry to twist their arms and compete with others to deploy faster under DevOps, placing the focus on the quality of speed in a continuous manner. Despite all this, DevOps is becoming a live stream now, and all credit goes to the ultimate savior – automation! Businesses are realizing that the potential of DevOps becomes meaningless, difficult to harness and inefficient without automation.

 

 

Eliminates operational costs

Automation is aimed at reducing the time to market, while DevOps breaks down this traditional barrier between developers and operations experts by bearing the load of arduous and repetitive tasks. When you try to eliminate the load of manual tasks, the average duration of a software development life cycle is reduced by a great margin.

All of the errors, bugs, and anomalies are figured out and rectified automatically with the help of continuous integration and testing. This makes it possible for enterprises to deploy their releases within days. In case of failure, automation results in a faster recovery and helps to achieve the heights of operational efficiency by enabling easy adjustments.

Constant evolution of culture and mindset

DevOps implementation requires a top-to-bottom cultural transformation in the organizational hierarchy, which encourages all the executives to employees to communicate, collaborate and share their duties to drive towards the main objectives of the business.

The DevOps process involves variant phases of development, feedback, improvements, and deployment on a continuous basis. Above this, automation provides help to the experts by allowing them to become creative in their own approaches and concentrate more on business-centric things instead of doing repetitive tasks.

Enhanced customer experience

By making use of continuous automation you limit the need for human input, which can make possibly reduce the manual errors. With such small and iterative automated feedback loops, DevOps is actually equipping organizations to act according to increasing customer requirements. The output from such collaborative communication between different departmental units is helping to create more standardized products according to the customers’ needs.

Organizations can deliver high value to their customers when the machines diminish the downsize time and humans monitor the efficacy of the automated process by giving out higher user satisfaction levels.

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Co-op with DevOps best practices

By eliminating human errors, automation will make the processes more efficient and cost-effective by eradicating the limited resources problem and utilizing what resources they do have better. The boring repetitive tasks have been automated, reducing the time investment necessary for many tasks in the development and operational processes.

Therefore, the experts can now invest their time in polishing their skills and intelligence in order to enhance the quality through innovative and strategic improvements. This lets the business spend more time on other activities that have a direct impact on their business growth. It is crucial to know that DevOps is not bragging about the tools, but actually also facilitates the agility and effective collaboration among all the members of your organization.

The road ahead

With the help of continuous automation in DevOps, the efficiency of the organizational processes boosts up and leads to improved practice. Better practices always yield quality products where you can establish credibility and trust by producing rich customer satisfaction that results in increased revenue. By eliminating the risk in bad demands from the businesses, automation is used most efficiently, which helps to reduce the waste of its efficiency. The ultimate goal for DevOps is to release software on an early basis by providing better quality and a high frequency.

Automation is becoming the core component of the DevOps journey across different organizations and industry verticals, so it is the right time for top-level management to get rid of those redundant and manual processes and accelerate their business towards their goals. Moreover, automation in DevOps needs to be embraced by realizing this goal and diminishing the returns on automation investments and capabilities. Keep learning!

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