{"id":1871,"date":"2019-08-07T03:38:58","date_gmt":"2019-08-07T00:38:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kusuaks7\/?p=1476"},"modified":"2024-07-18T10:02:46","modified_gmt":"2024-07-18T10:02:46","slug":"unnatural-devops-delivers-supernatural-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.experfy.com\/blog\/bigdata-cloud\/unnatural-devops-delivers-supernatural-results\/","title":{"rendered":"Unnatural DevOps Delivers Supernatural Results"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tDevOps is not necessarily a \u201cnatural\u201d process. Asking people to function outside of their comfort zones and prescribed roles is a challenging task for any organization, and requires a shift in organizational behavior. We believe that while DevOps is not natural, a supernatural result is achievable with the right cultural transformation supported by good tools that drive collaboration and automated flow between people and tools in the application delivery workflow.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tWe define DevOps as the application of the principles of continuous flow, feedback and improvement to people, process and technology for increasing agility, stability, security, efficiency, quality and satisfaction. Or, to quote from\u00a0Michael Schmidt\u2019s article, \u201cTen ways DevOps will benefit your IT department<\/a>\u201c: \u201cWhen implemented properly, DevOps can transform your software engineering process and create value for both employees and customers, producing business performance and value.\u201d These are huge \u201csupernatural\u201d benefits that every business would like to achieve.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tImplementing DevOps properly is challenging. DevOps depends on collaboration; smooth process flow from conception through deployment; and feedback between people, processes and technologies. It\u2019s more natural for people and departments to hoard information and centralize control\u2014traits that are contrary to DevOps best practices. People tend to trust their own abilities and are skeptical when they need to trust dependencies on others. People view competition with others as a means to personal advancement. Compounding this, organizations often manage, measure and reward success at the silo level instead of recognizing a successful delivery as a result of successful execution across the end-to-end DevOps value stream.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tBreaking down silos through transparency and the free exchange of information helps organizations implement the unnatural DevOps processes needed to achieve supernatural results. Fortunately, the transformation is assisted with technology. For example, continuous automation tools liberate sharing of infrastructure, application and compliance information. Pauly Comtois, Hearst\u2019s vice president of DevOps, describes the role of strong tooling in successful DevOps transformations in his article, \u201cEnterprise DevOps at Hearst Digital Media<\/a>\u201c: \u201cTools can be an incredible asset in this regard. We deploy Chef across multiple teams in the value stream, automating the deployment, configuration and state of environments in Dev, QA and Production.\u201d\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tIn scenarios such as the example above, tools support integrated and automated processes for builds, configuration, infrastructure and deployment management. Information managed by continuous automation tools is available for DevOps uses by providing a single \u201cpublic yet controlled\u201d source of truth for configuration data useful by all processes and tools in the toolchain across the end-to-end pipeline. Those who were concerned and hoarded configuration data can trust that the tools will keep the information secure, reliable and available on demand as readily accessible code.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMoving beyond the natural behavior of organizations and individuals is difficult, but success can create supernatural results for long-term growth and team effectiveness.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While DevOps is not natural, a supernatural result is achievable with the right cultural transformation supported by good tools that drive collaboration and automated flow between people and tools in the application delivery workflow. Implementing DevOps properly is challenging. DevOps depends on collaboration; smooth process flow from conception through deployment; and feedback between people, processes and technologies. It’s more natural for people and departments to hoard information and centralize control—traits that are contrary to DevOps best practices. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":589,"featured_media":3549,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[95],"ppma_author":[3287],"class_list":["post-1871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bigdata-cloud","tag-big-data-amp-technology"],"authors":[{"term_id":3287,"user_id":589,"is_guest":0,"slug":"marc-hornbeek","display_name":"Marc Hornbeek","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&r=g","user_url":"","last_name":"Hornbeek","first_name":"Marc","job_title":"","description":"Marc Hornbeek, known as “DevOps_the_Gray” and industry events speaker, is a DevOps Consultant at  Trace3. A seasoned DevOps consultant, adviser, educator, mentor, and author, he has performed assessments for over 60 organizations. Awarded IEEE Outstanding Engineer, 2016, Western USA, he is a Senior IEEE member for 42 years. He is the author of the  Continuous Delivery Architect certificate course and DevOps Test Engineering certificate course for DevOpsInstitute.com and many publications."}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.experfy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.experfy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.experfy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.experfy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/589"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.experfy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1871"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.experfy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36888,"href":"https:\/\/www.experfy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1871\/revisions\/36888"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.experfy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.experfy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.experfy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.experfy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1871"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.experfy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=1871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}