What are the five levels of DevOps practice?

DevOps is a culture that is not discovered or implemented in a day. Someone cannot jump out of bed and scream ..DevOps ..DevOps !!! and start doing it.

It is a systematic process of discovery, evolution and automation that makes the DevOps process all the more beautiful. However, every organization needs to make calculated attempts to adopt the DevOps culture. I will try to outline the gradual transition for an organization to adopt DevOps.

1. Build a strong foundation

While adapting to DevOps culture, always have a clear vision of what you are building. Normalizing the technology stack is the first step. Once your team has adopted the agile methodology in development. Implementing continuous integration and deployment will ensure that redundancies are eliminated and your stack is normalized.

Make sure you implement proper version control and standard practices or procedures during the development process.

2. Establish standard practices

Let’s say you have a team of 5 and you probably have 10 operating systems in place and hundreds of tools and software that you use to build your pipelines. It’s important that you standardize your infrastructure and the tools you use so that there are no surprises in terms of the variability within your setup.

Once this is done, you can set up code-sharing and deployment practices that will help you establish a consistent process for testing infrastructure and a pattern for sharing source code.

3. Scaling DevOps practices

Now that you have the basics in place, it’s time to scale DevOps best practices to your other teams and departments.

As communication and collaboration increase, the focus automatically shifts to improving service management and application delivery. Once the IT department has adopted DevOps practices, other departments will begin to adapt the process as well.

With all this in motion, more and more knowledge will be shared within the organization, accelerating the overall improvement of the DevOps culture.

4. Automate, automate and automate

This is the phase where most organizations fall into a state of confusion.

“Should not this be done first? “

In fact, the automation phase comes later in the DevOps journey simply because the organization is working on getting this right in the first three phases. Once things are set right, it’s easy to automate the infrastructure in phase 4.

The automation phase not only makes DevOps adapt faster in the organization but also enables a lot of self-service thinking in the departments.

5. Do it yourself

By the end of Phase 4, it is assumed that departments are aligned with DevOps practices and the organization treats IT as a profit center that supports the overall process.

At the beginning of Phase 5, resources are provided to each department and service delivery and incident management become an automated process. Self-service becomes a culture that further enhances overall DevOps adaptability to newer departments and human resources.

Every organization is built and managed differently. In this article, the phases of DevOps adoption are generalized and each phase must be addressed in accordance with the overall workflow and culture in each organization.

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