The full exploitation of the multi-cloud has allowed many companies since the beginning of the crisis to follow the evolution of their market and the demands of their customers. Agility, elimination of bureaucracy and simplification of processes have given companies the ability to evolve at a sustained pace, explains Philippe Legrand, of Fujitsu France.
Today, the objective for companies is to remain competitive by maintaining this pace of rapid innovation cycles and bringing their products to market in ever shorter times. To do so, they need a high degree of agility, while ensuring that this does not impact security, cost and quality of customer service. This means that it is essential for companies to have a DevOps strategy in place.
Many companies could take inspiration from the books of the “hyperscalers” to develop a high-level strategy. Microsoft and AWS have been surprisingly prolific in application development. They achieved this mainly by breaking down their development into several small blocks, by automating as much as possible and by standardizing the stack. They then integrated governance, compliance and security into all of their processes and released multiple iterative updates.
However, this is not simply a matter of technology deployment. It is above all a matter of having an organization whose configuration is optimized to maximize the impact of the technologies implemented.
Effective DevOps consists of evolving, configuring teams and organizational structure to promote and develop the desired architecture for the new markets addressed. Indeed, DevOps is a way of thinking, innovating and working as a team bringing together several complementary expertises focused on the results for the client, and which improves the efficiency of the company on a continuous and iterative basis.
Master your containers to improve your DevOps
Today, most DevOps relies on containerization, a rapidly expanding technology that supports this agile way of working. Its adoption is so rapid that analyst firm Gartner estimates that the containerized application market is expected to grow 34% per year to exceed $1 billion by 2025.
This is the result of companies investing in cloud technologies wanting to accelerate the development and deployment of cloud-native software and create easily scalable and resilient applications. The use of containers built using the open-source Kubernetes platform is also extending to the network edge for IoT applications, thanks to 5G networks enabling connectivity.
In addition, these capabilities are also deployed in all public cloud “hyperscaler” solutions where their cloud-native equipment helps support customers in their journey to adopt cloud-native services. Now that multi-cloud deployments are commonplace, businesses have different expectations for their application environments and want to avoid being locked into a single cloud provider, which is made much easier with this technology.
However, containers are not necessarily easy to deploy. The level of complexity implies a learning curve for ongoing deployment and management as well as successful integration into enterprise infrastructure. But it helps ensure that proper governance, compliance, and security are in place that will lay the foundations for embedded quality and governance for every delivery.
To address this challenge, end-to-end, fully automated, cloud-enabled software management that streamlines application development is a critical element in extracting maximum value from an application environment. A platform that guarantees the integration of governance, risk management and controls tools, allows developers and operators to focus on delivering software faster and more efficiently.
Manage multi-cloud organizational flexibility
One of the key strategic trends predicted by Gartner is the need for “organizational agility” to quickly adapt to changing customer demands and market volatility. The key to achieving this, in the face of multi-cloud complexity, is mastering DevOps and using containers to leverage them efficiently and get the most out of them. This mastery can potentially save months of both scaling and deployment, and manage costs.
It also ensures that DevOps generates continuous cycles of evaluation, learning and evolution that encompass people, practices and tools while ensuring security, cost, independence for the company. of the platform and the quality of the service.