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A1 Nearly three quarters of organizations have adopted #DevOps to accelerate their application releases and deployments. As DevOps has progressed, teams have realized the need to shift security measures left into the pipeline leading to the rise of #DevSecOps.

A1. According the Infosys Agile Radar report in 2021 (where Infosys surveyed 600 IT and 400 Business executives), around 45% of the CIOs and IT executives are prioritizing investments in DevSecOps and Product management. And 48% of them are investing in Agile

I think we've seen modern DevOps go through 3 distinct phases: proprietary DevOps, technology enablement with container and CI/CD technologies, and now consolidation and integration for cohesive DevOps enablement. From the 2nd phase, DevOps is widely adopted.

A1. With Cloud adoption increasing, DevOps and Agile are becoming integral to Technology delivery - with Cloud native architectures, IAC and automated infra provisioning, and Product-based value delivery approach, and tools provided by Cloud providers.

A1. We've seen modern DevOps go through 3 distinct phases: proprietary DevOps, technology enablement with container and CI/CD technologies, and now consolidation and integration for cohesive DevOps enablement. From the 2nd phase, DevOps is widely adopted.

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A1. Current state is that smaller, start ups are doing well. Larger ones are starting, but struggling #eWeekChat

Every company has some DevOps teams, At larger companies, only subset of teams are practicing DevOps #eWeekChat

BMC sponsored @puppetize State of DevOps report, shows that roughly 80% of organizations are “stuck in the middle” when it comes to their DevOps journey, with 58% saying they have multiple handoffs between teams to get to deployment.

http://spr.ly/6013ybWRd

@bmc what's causing this "stuck in the middle" ?

A4. Legacy App architectures, organization silos, competing toolsets

A3. When enterprises moving towards Hybrid and Multi Cloud, they need a DevOps strategy and toolset across multiple landing zones. The DevOps solution could be cloud-specific in AWS or Azure or something like Infosys DevSecOps platform

They are stuck due to 1. Application architecture complexity that has grown over the years; 2. Lack of confidence in managing a much faster change cycle.

A5. There is no friction. Actually, DevOps culture and tooling are an integral part of Agile.

A5. DevOps is an integral part of overall Agile Culture. Devops is more than CICD - it brings Development and Ops teams together to collaborate on shared goals

A5. For an enterprise to be truly agile, it needs to have Product based value delivery, business + IT org design, culture, App & Infra and Tooling.

A5. DevOps provides many of these Agile elements

A6. I think the power of DevOps is truly seen in Product-Platform delivery and not in projects. Business + IT coming together is essential. Also Dev + Ops teams working together. Communication will be lot more better.

A6. We need the funding models to change from project funding to Product funding. Business needs to buy-in and trust IT. The Technology and tooling is lot simpler than these organization and culture changes

A4. Many enterprises are grappling with a mix of legacy apps, COTs apps and Cloud native apps. This creates challenges to select a limited set of App Profile patterns and tools.

Q7. I wouldn’t call it disadvantage. But the full power of DevOps comes to the forefront with modern cloud native / microservices architectures, Agile Culture, Product & Platform based teams and funding, independent pod teams, advanced Compute engines...

Q7. on Cloud or Containers, and App lifecycle management team design like SRE

A7.Enterprises have a mix of legacy and modern Applications including third party COTs applications – hence it makes it difficult to adopt DevOps at scale and consistently.

A7. Enterprises have a mix of legacy and modern Applications including third party COTs applications – hence it makes it difficult to adopt DevOps at scale and consistently.

A7. The full power of DevOps comes to the forefront with modern cloud native / microservices architectures, Agile Culture, Product & Platform based teams and funding etc.

A7. Also skillsets for various DevOps tooling is a challenge. Something like Infosys DevSecOps platform which is a ‘No Code’ DevSecOps platform powered by AI/ML driven can help in rolling out DevOps tooling quickly across enterprise and scaling. All using Opensource

A5 DevOps and Agile are complimentary. Agile focuses on optimizing the domain from customer requirements to development and testing. while DevOps focuses on optimizing the domain from development and testing to operations. A continuum?

A8. While DevOps is already popular, Infosys research shows that it will only increase in prominence as organizations look to increase their business agility, resilience, adopt Cloud, Agile methodologies, and more modern Application Architectures.

A8. The pandemic has made Digital transformation a top priority and DevOps and Agile are critical to achieve this transformation.

@AceSage. Agree. Microservices architecture is key to have independent teams and delivering code with DevOps / SRE

A9. There are multiple changes to truly get the power of Agile and DevOps. Infosys has identified 13 Agile Levers

A9. (1) They are across Product-based Value delivery (Customer Journeys, Customer insights, value streams and products, incremental funding)

A9 (2) Organization structure (integrated business + technology teams, teams around Customer Journeys, Collaboration across functional boundaries)

A9. (3) Culture (Self-organized Teams, servant leadership, shared purpose), (4) workforce and workspace (reskill talent, agile workspaces, virtual workspaces)

A9. In the past, there was an inverse correlation between Change velocity and Risks to Application Stability. Hence the need for upfront requirements, waterfall methodologies, elongated testing cycles and a lot of ceremony.

A9.DevOps coupled with modern Application Architectures and Agile culture breaks this negative correlation relationship between Change Velocity and Application Stability.

A9. DevOps provides the ability to do rolling updates and blue-green deployments that mean changes are lower risk and can be frequent without affecting Application Stability or any downtime to implementation.

https://www.infosys.com/services/agile-devops/insi...

A5: #DevOps automates testing and delivery while #Agile manages change.

A5: #DevOps brings development and operations teams together. #Agile focuses on collaboration, customer feedback and small rapid releases. There’s no conflict.

a5: shouldn't be anyway

A5: #DevOps was created as a descendent of #Agile which means it developed out of a necessity to create greater efficiencies in software dev but this time, including the ops team. Using both DevOps and Agile will speed up delivery of and increase the quality of deployments.

A5: #Agile improves End User / Developer communication. #DevOps improves Developer / Operations communication.

@AceSage I agree!

A5. Agile principle of breaking problems down & small releases, pivot when customers’ needs are not met. Need DevOps to put software into production. But DevOps works best when software is built incrementally via agile.

A5: As others noted, DevOps grew out of Agile. But with the trend toward Low/No code and democratization of IT, you have a new base of users who don't understand DevOps. These users are used to "click to deploy" simplicity but IT needs appropriate governance.

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A3: One major mistake organizations make when adopting DevOps is not making the necessary cultural changes throughout the organization. DevOps is a mindset. When #DevOps is done well, the company culture focuses on collaboration and breaking down departmental silos.

A3. There is currently no widely adopted frame or tool to measure & manage operational risks introduced by DevOps. IT and business leaders want to use DevOps to accelerate innovation but also hesitant on full roll out. #eWeekChat (1/2)

A3. Greatest challenges organizations faced in managing change management practices
41% lack of familiarity with change management procedures
39% insufficient infrastructure for endpoint monitoring
38% incomplete information to make sound ITSM decisions https://bit.ly/3smOwcN

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A3. In the enterprise, companies are dealing with a mix of old & new, on premise & cloud, & heterogenous multi-vendor application landscapes. No tool from any vendor addresses this complexity adequately. Failure can be driven by trying to do too much, or too little.

A4: My favorite best practice for an effective #DevOps strategy is to speed up data delivery by reducing the time to move data across the pipeline.

@AceSage That is the core of DevOps!

clicked too soon..;-) Its harder in larger ent because devops is a process that organizes behavior - requires adjusting responsibilities

A4. Applying #DevOps principles to larger or more dispersed organizations introduces complexity that could lead to greater risk. #eWeekChat

A4: Again- the mix of old & new, on premise & cloud, and heterogenous vendor application landscapes make DevOps a unique challenge in the enterprise context. Central IT is also often not ideally configured for DevOps in a low/no code environment.

@Eric_Solberg To be sure, enterprise IT lives in a very heterogenous landscape.

@Eric_Solberg That's exactly what we're referring to when we reference architectural complexities!

@Eric_Solberg And it's only getting more fragmented, never more unified, it seems.