The philosophy of DevOps finds its ideal ecosystem in cloud technology. Though DevOps could be set up without the cloud, it’s the fascinating benefits of cloud that make it an ideal home for DevOps.
Cloud not only develops a DevOps culture, it also enhances its ability opening doors to new opportunities such as CloudSecOps and DevOps as a service. Â
This article states 3 ways cloud computing and DevOps work together. You’ll also learn the exact of DevOps philosophy which is nothing but three qualities.
What’s DevOps? Just 3 things.
Devops is a mindset. It solely exists for a single purpose– to accelerate software delivery while ensuring enhanced business value.
For this to happen, DevOps uses a set of practices that implements 3 things– culture, automation, and platform design.Â
- The ‘culture’ in DevOps represents a shift to better collaboration among all teams in the software development lifecycle, especially the operations and the development team. Traditional team roles are evolved to merged roles– such as the operations team helping developers to set up infrastructure before development, and the development team participating at the production stage in maintaining service up-time.Â
- DevOps is also about ‘automation’. Automation is using technology to make softwares do tasks instead of humans. Within a development workflow, automation means creating softwares that develop, test and deploy applications on their own. Though a company decides which of the tasks they want to automate and that depends on the level of agility they are willing to obtain.
- Finally, DevOps is also simplifying development environments– ‘platform engineering’. Think of a platform as the tools and technologies developers need to build, test and deploy applications. As there are vast tooling options available to developers, the platform engineers help them in self-service (deciding which ones to choose). This, the platform engineers do by automating infrastructure availability to developers, and standardizing the development environments.
The story of DevOps in the cloud.
DevOps finds its ideal home in the cloud. The philosophy of DevOps is that it fastens the software delivery process of an organization through intense collaboration, automation, and self-service. This can be achieved on a physical, on-premise set-up. But in terms of the infrastructure cost and the set-up time, on-premise is not a feasible option.
When it comes to DevOps, there’s no better option than the cloud. At the cloud, the minute expansion of infrastructure (storage, processing and virtualization) allows DevOps teams to work on daily operations without waiting long for the infrastructure approval.
What DevOps looks like in the cloud– The Cloud DevOps
In the cloud, DevOps takes one or more of the three forms:
- Software development on the cloud
- Securing DevOps assets on the cloud– CloudSecOps
- DevOps as a service
Any of the above forms of DevOps in the cloud is termed as Cloud DevOps.
Software development on the cloud
Software development becomes fastest, cheapest and simplest on the cloud. When a software company starts a new project, they need hardware such as storage and processing servers. The rented infrastructure facility from a cloud vendor offers minute duration access to this hardware, bringing simplicity and ease for the company. Developers, at their geographical location, access these remote servers via virtualization.Â
There’s a second and better option available to software companies. Instead of buying infrastructure services on the cloud, software companies can subscribe to the cloud AWS tooling. These tools are specifically designed to manage DevOps operations via automation, and fully-managed services. This means now the cloud will manage DevOps operations on the company’s behalf. These operations include: infrastructure provisioning, deploying application code, automating software release processes and monitoring application and infrastructure performance.
CloudSecOps
CloudSecOps protects the application environment and business, on the cloud. It does so by providing the mechanism that protects everything related to application development lifecycle (DevOps) including people, processes and technologies.Â
To view the role of CloudSecOps, there are five key security concerns it addresses. These include: data security, cloud security management, supply chain security risks, and public cloud asset protection.
Applications generate, process and store data. Securing data in the ‘data security’ means building robust applications that cater against data vulnerabilities such as injection and cross site scripting attacks, session hijacking etc. Meanwhile protection of sideline business assets such as cloud services and supply chain is also important.Â
DevOps as a service
On the cloud, we also see DevOps serving end-users with tools that are used to build applications supporting the DevOps operations. DevOps as a service means establishing cloud DevOps tools that help organizations to efficiently create and run DevOps development lifecycles. AWS DevOps tools is an example of DevOps as a service.
To summarize, cloud computing is a pertinent need for DevOps that not only helps organizations to easily set up secure, agile life cycles but also offers valuable DevOps tools that further enhances the agility of the development lifecycle.
