This allows developers and IT departments to concentrate fully on developing the actual core functionality of their application. With these enablement services, you are also able to react better to the requirements from the specialist departments and thus ensure a shorter time-to-market.
Infrastructure as
Code
Administrator 1.0 clicks - administrator 2.0 programs! This is how
the fundamental change in the data center can be described, which is driven
by cloud computing and the automation of the ordering,
configuration, deployment and administration processes of the IT infrastructure
in full swing. For IT infrastructure decision-makers, Infrastructure as
Code is the next evolutionary step on the way to a dynamic and autonomous
infrastructure basis.
It is the logical consequence of the technological development in the
areas of "Software-Defined Data Centers" and
"Infrastructure-as-a-Service", i.e. cloud infrastructure services
that are made available via API on cloud platforms and via commands can be
configured on the command line. In the future, administrators will need to
script instead of screws. Because the IT infrastructure of the future, the
“Digital Infrastructure Platform”, no longer provides hardware but
infrastructure as a service. Companies that do not want to face this trend
with their own human resources will create enormous demand for so-called
“managed public cloud services” in the next few years.
DevOps
Anyone who wants to play a important role in the age of "digital
business" can no longer avoid quickly picking up on new customer requests
and innovations while at the same time ensuring high-performance and stable IToperations. In addition, there is the fundamental ability to quickly adapt
new technologies and features in the digital world. Companies can only
remain competitive in the long term if they can quickly add new functions and
services to their applications and offer them on common mobile
devices. This goes hand in hand with the fact that no leading digital
company can do without the use of highly scalable cloud infrastructure
services.
In particular, companies that have understood by means of application
performance monitoring how to optimize their applications and IT
infrastructures are faced with the question of how this can look
organizationally and in terms of tools. The magic word is DevOps . For
several years, this term has been used to summarize approaches and tools that
are intended to support the interlinking of “Development” and “Operations”. The
central aspects of a DevOps approach are efficient collaboration, automation as
well as fully documented processes and live monitoring. Efficient
communication and collaboration across departmental and company boundaries is a
basic requirement for this.
The introduction of a microservice architecture can help an IT
department to react better to the requirements from the specialist departments
and thus to ensure a shorter time-to-market. However, it should no longer
be thought in terms of independent silos, but rather a digital umbrella should
be stretched over the entire organization. This also includes the
introduction of the DevOps model in order to develop the
microservices in small teams. Because modern development and collaboration
tools enable development in teams that are scattered around the world.