What Future Holds for DevOps

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What Future Holds for DevOps 
 
With the implementation of modern DevOps practices, it's important for IT companies to 
not to get left behind. In the year of 2016, DevOps was all about security, enhancements, 
and containerization. However, like every year, the trends have changed quite a lot for the 
year of 2017. Till date, the prime challenge for DevOps was in the understanding.  According 
to some, it is a collection of concepts, for some, it is a movement. However, it is a 
combination of two terms, which are developments and operations. 
DevOps is a new term, where professionals from operations and development departments 
participate in the entire service lifecycle which starts from design and development and 
ends in production support stage. Additionally, it is characterized by autonomous teams and 
continuous learning environment.  So, here we are listing out some of the key trends that 
we can see in the upcoming days. 
Till date, organizations have experimented with DevOps in small projects. Though experts 
believe that large organizations will fully adopt DevOps in 2017, after finally taking the 
center stage, it will help developers, QA, and testing professionals, business professionals, 
and operations personnel to collaborate in an enhanced way. 
Nowadays, security is one of the prime concerns for most of the organizations. With more 
sophisticated attacks and smarter hackers, companies are now focusing on unifying 
deployment, continuous security, and operations efforts. So, user experience and 
advanced security measures will eventually go hand in hand in near future. 
Recently, the market has become dynamic and larger organizations have legacy applications 
alongside micro services, on premise cloud infrastructure, which includes infrastructures, 
tools, applications, and processes. In that respect, DevOps can support anything. So, 
organizations who focus completely on software innovation and faster application updates, 
DevOps will be a great option. 
With the increased use of DevOps, modular approaches to system building will 
increase. Gone are those days when IT companies created colossal products for their 
customers. Now they are opting to employ small teams to manage and accomplish 
individual applications. This may sound weird to some people, but companies that embrace 
the chaos to drive future growth will flourish eventually. 
The idea of automation is not at all new. However, the ability to bring infrastructure easily 
and seamlessly is a new concept. Here enters DevOps (seriously, even in an article?), which 
helps to program infrastructure easily, so that teams can develop the software and operate 
its environment instantaneously.  Soon companies will continue to push faster, software 
based methods when it comes to infrastructure. 
DevOps reduces the time to deploy a feature to production. As this transformation 
happens, systems will be more risk tolerant. Any of the changes made are less likely to leave 
a negative impact on the system and the entire production time will reduce to few minutes, 
rather than weeks or days. 
With each passing day, DevOps is eliminating the role of operations. Previously, a big 
monolithic system used to take years to overhaul. Nowadays, the time to change or switch 
out the technology stack is taking only a few days in order to accomplish. One can expect to 
see more pronounced changes in how companies look at their legacy systems, and as a 
result, the role of operations will be eliminated completely by next few years. 
DevOps ready tools are now seeing much more adaption and out of the box functionality, 
which has led to decreased traditional silos between developers and operations. With teams 
focusing more on continuous delivery and improvement, the accountability and ownership 
from developer teams to build and run their solutions increases. 
The next trend to look for is big data and DevOps coming together in order to create 
predictive analysis throughout the delivery cycle. DevOps can automate processes and 
configuration. In these pipelines, if an organization suddenly starts creating a ton of data 
and applies machine learning to that, then the failure can be predicted easily and areas that 
need optimization can be identified faster. 
Now organizations are emphasizing on shifting-left of more and more of their software 
delivery practices. As a part of the trend, which will continue to increase, activities that were 
traditionally done after deployment and production, or things that are typically done later in 
the development or release process, are now moving earlier to the pipeline. 
So, here are few trends that will affect the industry to a large extent. However, one of the 
biggest trends of DevOps is not just a focus on engaging and implementing these practices 
in an organization, but a comprehensive adoption of the DevOps culture. Those enterprises 
that adopt the shared responsibilities, authorized autonomous teams, learning 
environments, and have the can do attitude where DevOps thrives will witness the benefits. 
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