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DevOps Services

Collaboration of Development and Operations

DevOps is a culture, movement or practice that emphasizes the collaboration and communication of both software developers and other information-technology (IT) professionals while automating the process of software delivery and infrastructure changes. It aims at establishing a culture and environment where building, testing, and releasing software, can happen rapidly, frequently, and more reliably.

Traditional organizations are siloed where there is little cross-departmental integration between Development and IT Operations teams. DevOps promotes a set of processes and methods to foster communication and collaboration between development, QA, and IT operations. This integrated approach helps organizations deliver services quickly as required by business.

Integrated approach that helps organizations

In the traditional software release process, a development team builds and tests code in their private environment and releases it to a operations team for production. Since two teams work separately, it becomes hard for the development team to get fully aware of operational complexities like infrastructure, configuration, deployment, log management, and performance monitoring. These departmental silos between development and operations can slow down the production releases. The DevOps approach makes development and operations work together seamlessly

This is facilitated by applying DevOps tools and principles that automate the process and reduce the complexity of version control, configuration management, continuous integration, deployment, and continuous performance monitoring. This close alignment enables organizations to release new stuff in days rather than in months.

In addition to accelerating the deployment process, organizations improve the quality of the application because they no longer have to go through time-consuming and error-prone manual processes. This makes their application or IT perform better. And better IT performance is related to higher performance for the whole organization. Thus, deploying DevOps practices can deliver real results and give organizations a competitive advantage.

Repeatable, Reliable, Predictable, Low cycle time

DevOps spans across the entire delivery pipeline to improve deployment frequency, lower failure rate of new releases, shorten lead time between fixes, and enable faster mean time to recovery. Simple processes become increasingly programmable, automated, and dynamic by using a DevOps approach.

The methodology of DevOps enables to save the valuable time, resources and offers a competitive edge by adopting continuous development. Going big by doing small is the model of continuous development. It helps to address the two essential basics of agile development: faster development and frequent improvement. This iterative and augmented development practice gave elevation to Continuous Integration.

Continuous deployment extends the tactic of continuous development, integration, and DevOps practices more by diminishing the time lapse between the era of coding and deploying them. It enables parallel test creation and running a continuous test in the real-time environment. Moreover, it offers faster reaction time, minimize the risk, expose costs at an early stage and provide flexible release options.

The continuous operations enable the availability of applications and data services without any interruption. The availability and performance of the application should not bear from continuous releases and updates to avoid any downtime. Additionally, constant supervision of infrastructure and services and applications has to tie with automated solutions. The significance of continuous operations can be mainly revealed by the cost of downtime.

How Crest can Help

Implementing DevOps within your organization requires changes to technology, processes, and culture at all levels. We can help you on your DevOps journey with following services:

DevOps Assessment
Identify key DevOps business drivers, challenges, and initiatives
Determine short, mid, and long-term goals
Assess learnings from successful projects
Review critical DevOps areas that align to your business goals
Determine the critical ITIL processes
Understand your planning and communication practices
Implement changes to improve velocity

Services

Configuration Management

Case Study: Puppet Module for NetApp E-Series

Source Code Management

We manage the code base using robust version control tools like SVN, Git, CVS, and Mercurial that authenticate the access, maintain all revisions of files, automate the commit and facilitate version and tagging.

Containers

Our expert team containerizes the applications though tools like Docker, Packer, Kubernetes, CloudSlang, ContainerShip, and Techtonic, which facilitate building up the flexible and agile application development. It helps to greater performance and higher secured application.

Continuous Integration

The team of Crest Data Systems extends the practice of agility by ensuring code quality and coverage through automated tools. We uses Jenkins, Travis Cl, Bamboo, Circle CI, and CodeShip for the automation of the code integration.

Testing

Our QA engineers perform the continuous checking to ensure that application meets the functional requirement with all configurations and environment. We use JUnit, Rational Robot, Coded UI, Maven and Selenium for automated functional testing. For performance testing, our experts use Jmeter, Load runner, Acunatix and Burp Suite.

Collaboration

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AWS

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