DevOps Continuous Integration & Delivery

Collaboration

DevOps creates an environment where developers and IT operations are (finally) working together. The use of containers simplifies the process of building and deploying applications while breaking down the silos in an IT organization. A successful DevOps architecture uses tools and processes to automate tasks that historically have been manual and slow. This architecture helps engineers independently perform tasks, such as deploying code or provisioning infrastructure, that otherwise would have required help from other teams. Collaboration = Velocity.

Automation

DevOps relies heavily on automation tools. Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes, Bamboo, Puppet, Octopus, ECS… the list goes on and on. These tools open up whole new worlds of efficiency, integration, velocity and scale. But DevOps automation is much more than a collection of tools; it is also the processes and standards that you implement with the tools. Winmill can help you to select the right tools, and define the right processes, to bring your organization to the next level of DevOps automation.

Continuous Integration

In a traditional SDLC, developers check out code for extended periods while they build, modify or repair. But the longer that code is checked out, the more obsolete it becomes and the less likely it will integrate with other components when it is returned to the repository. Enter continuous integration, where developers continuously integrate their work with the rest of the team. Further, the integration of Continuous Testing can dramatically improve product quality, supporting the highly-touted and rarely-achieved “shift left.” Talk to Winmill about implementing and getting the most out of continuous integration.

Continuous Delivery

Continuous delivery is the natural extension of continuous integration – rapidly pushing code through development and testing cycles and into production. The shift-left concepts of continuous integration and continuous testing are designed to improve quality throughout the process, so that deployment is no longer a throw-it-over-the-wall endeavor. The containerization of applications makes deployment easier than ever before. Updates can be deployed quickly, with high confidence that they will be secure, scalable and performant. If you are ready to talk about DevOps, and how continuous integration and delivery can work for your organization, it’s time to talk to Winmill Software.