Benefits of DevOps

Non-adherence to DevOps practices would be challenging for an organization, for the following reasons:

• High deployment effort for each of the development, QA, and production systems

• Complex manual installation procedures are cumbersome and expensive

• Lack of a comprehensive operations manual makes the system difficult to operate

• Insufficient trace or log file details makes troubleshooting incomplete

• Application-specific issues of performance impact not assessed for other applications

• SLA adherence, as required by the business application, would be challenging

• Monitoring servers, filesystems, databases, and applications in isolation will have gaps

• Business application redundancy for failover is expensive in isolation

DevOps adoption and maturity for big data systems will benefit organizations in the following ways:

• DevOps processes can be implemented as standalone or a combination of other processes

• Automation frameworks will improve business efficiency

• DevOps frameworks will help to build resilience into the application's code

• DevOps processes incorporate SLAs for operational requirements

• The operations manual (runbook) is prepared in development to aid operations

• In matured DevOps processes, runbook-driven development is integrated

• In DevOps processes, application-specific monitoring is part of the development process

• DevOps planning considers high availability and disaster recovery technology

• Resilience is built into the application code in-line with technology features

• DevOps full-scripted installation facilitates fully automate deployment

• DevOps operation team and developers are familiar with using logging frameworks

• The non-functional requirements of operability, maintenance, and monitoring get sufficient attention, along with system development specifications

• Continuous integration and continuous delivery eliminates human errors, reduces planned downtime for upgrades, and facilitates productivity improvements