Devops Implementations and Handling Challenges

When a large-scale & small-large business tries to introduce DevOps models in their organization for improving the productivity and workflow, While in this process they can face lots of hurdles to reach success. Because DevOps environment is a very complex environment which is very difficult to monitor and maintain. In recent times most of the ITOps teams and Softwares are adopting DevOps into their work culture for the best results and faster results.

As I said in the second line of the first paragraph, When DevOps is adopted by any organizations it is very difficult for them to be comforted with them but once they set with DevOps environment it’s very easy to work. Now, we discuss the scenarios when a company adopt DevOps to their business what are the hurdles they organizations can be faced and their solution to overcome the hurdles.

DevOps to our Business & Major Challenges

Most of us know that main goal of DevOps is to achieve or complete the work successfully i.e. integration and automation. When we implement this in practice it's quite challenging, This can be implemented by replacing the older methods and implementing the new methods. It’s always been a difficult task to cope-up when new methods are implemented to our business.

Let’s dig deeper we come to know various issues or challenges faced by the customers when they implement the DevOps for any business. In this, we will know what are the ways we can adopt DevOps to our business and resolve various challenges which are faced during the implementation.

Note: For doing DevOps you need a partner, not a vendor.

Clashes Between Dev and Ops Toolset

If we look at the Dev and Ops both are two different toolsets. Thus, by combining this both toolset as one we get more benefits to your business. The main challenge for implementing DevOps is totally different toolkits and metrics between development and operation teams. While some teams are not willing to be the part of legacy tools which are technologically week and also use this new infrastructure tools can be slow down which major issue.

Still, there is a way to overcome this by implementing them to company goals and not distracting from the company goals. Implementing this process we can overcome the challenges, This makes DevOps work smoother. After a certain period of time, we used to it and feel comfortable to work on Devops.

Changing from Legacy Infrastructure to Microservices

While most of the older application is not up to the mark, which makes issues while DevOps implementation. In legacy infrastructure, it has additional problems such as stability issues and needs improvement in customer support..etc by this it slow downs the workflow.

To overcome this issue the organizations need to use latest versions of software and hardware i.e.microservices which makes us unique from the competitors. When we replace older infrastructure with microservices architecture we can develop an application faster with new innovation.

Resistance to Change

When any large-business organization or small-business organization has newly implementing DevOps to our business most of the stakeholders and team members are feel comfortable to work with DevOps. Now, Every employee in the organization needs to understand that making comfort with DevOps is not an overnight task, It takes some to work smooth and improve gradually. When we follow this everyone(Key stakeholders and team members) will become accustomed to the DevOps culture and contribute to its development process.

Focusing More Time on Tools

In this first, we need to avoid fragmented toolset adoption. While an organization is adopting on DevOps, Introducing of new tools is not sufficient but also the organization need to train their employees on the latest version so that staff can be used with new tools, Staff is the important factor in the transition to DevOps and for getting success in this tool they should follow proper workflow. By this, we can conclude that the company needs to focus more time on staff rather than focusing more time on tools.

How To Defend the Challenges When we Adopt DevOps to Our Business?

Here are few points on how to overcome the challenges when we adopt DevOps for any organizations they are:

• Following Guidance Properly

• Analysing the Risk

• Improving the Collaboration

• Shortage of Tool Knowledge

Following Guidance Properly

If we look at any organization proper management plays a key role in success. To follow proper management employees should follow certain rules such as clear instructions form the higher authority and cogent communication which makes everything better. The team members should know the company goals and need to know how to achieve that goal. For reaching those goals a proper training is required to gain this knowledge.

Analysing the Risk

We know that changing from old technologies to new technologies is very difficult. When business analysts analysis the risk of DevOps accordingly they build the dashboards on the rating scale of hundred for there reports with certain parameters. This has lots of advantages which helps experts to understand the problems in the business, details about training information and much more.

Improving the Collaboration

When an organization has a better collaboration it leads to increase the productivity of DevOps team. The team members should focus a single goal instead of focusing on different areas. When an improved collaboration happens it leads to increase the visibility of an organization and can easily track the issues and also easy to find the change made by the team members.

Shortage of Tool Knowledge

In DevOps, they have introduced a concept called principles of continuous deployment and continuous testing. Most of the team members prefer to work with old legacy tools because working with new functionalities of tools is not an easy task. It takes time to get full knowledge of new architecture this is based on the cloud. By this, we can conclude that shortage of tool knowledge will lead to fault choices which can cause issues.

Conclusion

Devops has moved forward to fulfill the gap between the 3 important factors called development, operations, and business. While organization adopts DevOps they have to face many challenges to succeed. Every technology has certain condition and rules to resolve them. In this, I have explained you about what the challenges need to overcome while we are implementing DevOps to your business and how to solve them successfully.

Gnana Sekar loves pursuing excellence through writing and has a passion for technology. He currently writes for mindmajix.com, a global training company provides professional certification training.