The highest performing IT companies are characterized by:
- Multiple daily on-demand deployments
- Lead time for changes (code commit to production) and MTTR less than 1 hour
- Change failure rate 0-15% (5x less than low performers)
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Degree of automation:
- 65% of testing
- 70% or more for configuration management and deployment
- Spending 21% less time on unplanned work / rework and 44% more time on new work than low performers
Source: 2017cby Puppet, DORA
Slow and inefficient software deployment processes cost the financial services industry $1.5 billion annually (Greenwich Associates)
DevOps Technology
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Continuous Integration and Delivery Tools
- CI: Jenkins, Bamboo, TeamCity, TravisCI, and Concourse
- CD: Spinnaker, and Harness.io
- CI in the Clouds: AWS Code Star, Google Cloud Build, and Azure DevOps
- Artifactories: Nexus, and JFrog
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Automated Testing
- JMeter, Artillery, Tsung, and Gatling
- Selenium, Appium, Saucelab, and Browserstack
- Test Complete, and QTP
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Infrastructure Management
- Kubernetes (AKS, AWS EKS, GKE, Kops, and Konvoy)
- OpenShift
- Rancher
- Docker ecosystem
- Vagrant, AWS Cloud Formation, and Azure ARM
- Terraform
- Puppet, Chef, and Ansible
- OpenStack
Partnerships
Continuous Integration
Best practices that improve quality and streamline development process:
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Scalable CI
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Pipelines
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Fixed revisions and versions
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Isolated changes and scope
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No overnight builds — decomposition and parallel running.
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Build config as code
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Build on commit
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Automatic code review
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Reporting
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Advanced analytics to support release processes
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