Part 6 of 6, Orchestrate and Operate Infrastructure: Scaling DevOps – Strategy & Technical Considerations

1. Summary

This is part 6 of a 6-part report, access all other parts here:

• Part 1 – Introduction, Why Enterprise DevOps and Conclusion
• Part 2 – Shift to Customer-Centricity
• Part 3 – Deliver Agile Best Practice
• Part 4 – Connect Data and Services
• Part 5 – Automate Development and Delivery

While DevOps practices have existed in various forms for many years, the current surge of interest has been accelerated by the use of cloud-based infrastructure and software platforms, as they take much of the operations burden away and therefore encourage leaner, faster development approaches.

Cloud-based infrastructure can be used as virtual machines, as a platform of services, or indeed, at a programming level, as “functions as a service” or so-called “No-Ops.”

Enabling delivery of DevOps best practice requires the following areas to be addressed:

1. Orchestrate infrastructure
2. Monitor events and performance
3. Collate and report

We look at each below.