Devops has been practiced for many years. What is the most painful thing?

DevOps  from 2008 On the stage of history , To replace agile as the latest software development paradigm , And then to borrow cloud and container technology in 2018 Around, it was popular in China , It has obviously reached an unprecedented stage .

2021  year 《 The global DevSecOps Status Report 》 Show , Last year DevOps The number of enterprises continues to soar , Has gone from 2020 Year of 27%, Grow rapidly to 35.9%. meanwhile , Issued by the Academy of communications last year 《 China DevOps Status survey report 》 It also shows ,70% Percent of respondents said their team used DevOps platform .

Besides ,DevOps Practice has not only achieved considerable development in scope , It has advanced a lot in depth . The report of the academy also shows ,DevOps Enterprises with comprehensive maturity reach 35.04%, increased 8.84%;16.53% The maturity of enterprise practice is at the excellent level ,0.87% Our company is at the level of excellence .DevOps This idea is becoming a reality step by step from concept .

However ,DevOps Is the development of really so smooth ？ Not necessarily ,DevOps There are many pain points in practice so far , Including culture 、 The team 、 Security 、 Technology and so on , among DevOps The choice and application of tools is the most difficult point for many enterprises .

01 DevOps  The main pain points 3 In terms of

About now DevOps What are the pain points , Basically, there are thousands of enterprises and thousands of faces ;DevOps In practice, where is the most painful , There are different opinions .

There are views from DevOps Start with safety , Think DevOps Security teams and continuous delivery teams often operate independently , Frequent information exchange and low efficiency make it difficult to guarantee the quality , The unplanned workload of safety problem rectification is large . meanwhile , Communication work also depends on manual , Automated tools only detect execution , Causing pain points of information asymmetry and untimely communication .

There are also views that focus on the era of cloud primordial DevOps Pain points , Think DevOps It depends on the cloud 、 Workflow 、 Personnel organization and integration , But few enterprises get the expected business value from it . Value and management and maintenance costs are not equal , There is also the pain point of efficiency and cost .

But at the end of the day , Now enterprises want to implement DevOps The most painful , Or the following three points ：

1、 Lack of talent , We should not rely too much on talent development DevOps

Studies have shown that , all DevOps Skilled positions are facing a talent shortage .Gartner Have predicted , Due to the shortage of talents , To 2022 year 75% Of DevOps The plan will not meet expectations .

You bet , Due to the heavy work of the project team , There is no time to DevOps Improvement and lack of experts in related fields are becoming organizational DevOps The biggest obstacle to transformation . Because of the lack of DevOps Experienced experts , Cause the enterprise to advance slowly 、 Do not know how to start .

Chen Dingwei, President of feisuan Yunzhi, believes that , Internet technology is very complex , And the development is changing with each passing day , The technical gap between development and operation and maintenance is real and deepening . For most of China IT Companies , rely on DevOps The idea of can't bridge this gap . because DevOps The implementation of is highly dependent on talents , And the basic quality requirements for personnel are very high . That's a lot IT The company is practicing DevOps The reason why I had to fail . If there is no more effective platform for it to land , that DevOps This excellent engineering concept and technology will not be further promoted in China .

2、 The route is not clear enough , More neglect cultural cultivation , As a result, many enterprises DevOps Transformation is difficult

《 China DevOps Status survey report 》 indicate , Although in recent years, enterprises DevOps The practice line of landing is gradually clear , But there are still 20% It is difficult for the above enterprises to confirm whether the transformation is successful .

among , More than half of the enterprises are based on the improvement of R & D efficiency 、 product quality 、 Delivery efficiency, customer satisfaction and other indicators to measure DevOps The success or failure of transformation .

besides , Because we are too focused on such indicators , Enterprises often ignore the influence of culture . But actually , Build excellent DevOps An important part of the process is to understand the cultural and organizational changes required for success , And make it a priority . 

“ Automated work with tools , It's to make individuals more valuable , Instead of letting tools replace people . Entering the era of Automation , The first thing we need to change is the mode of thinking .” Chen Dingwei said .

3、 It is difficult to build an appropriate tool system ,DevOps There are also technical challenges

In many enterprises DevOps Practitioners all say , In the age of cloud Nativity DevOps The pain point of landing is the lack of automation and operation and maintenance ability 、 Operation and maintenance challenges brought by technological changes such as microservice containers 、 Tools and technical problems such as disconnection of application delivery tool chain .

To solve the above problems , It needs service and tool system support , such as AI And Automation . If a worker wants to do a good job, he must sharpen his tools first , With the help of appropriate project management tools, the efficiency of agile development can undoubtedly be improved , But in the actual landing process, it faces many difficulties . Chen Dingwei believes , This requires enterprises to adopt a long-term effective tool to do .

02  Tools are not everything , It is absolutely impossible without tools

The three pain points mentioned above , Talent problem is an external environment problem , This external cause is more adaptation and acceptance ; Strategy is the internal management decision-making of enterprises , This internal cause requires consciousness to gradually infiltrate ; The solution to the tool problem is real 、 It can be effective quickly .

When the enterprise decides to introduce DevOps When it comes to tools , There are three options ： Use open source tools directly 、 Purchase business tools 、 Develop your own tools .

But for most enterprises , The cost of self-developed tools is too high , It's not worth it . And directly using open source tools will face greater security costs . This needs to face the problem of tool selection .

Studies have shown that , Whether to adopt self-development or secondary development of open source tools is the choice of enterprises DevOps The first consideration when using platform tools . meanwhile , Enterprises are choosing DevOps Pay more attention to the ease of use of functions when using tools 、 Security and automation of the tool itself .

therefore , Many enterprises will DevOps The construction of tool chain and related personnel training are included in the enterprise DevOps Put in the plan . Google in 2021 The survey of ,31.04% Our enterprises have been interested in DevOps Tools for secondary development , The plan forms DevOps Tool chain ;22.61% Our enterprise plans to train technicians DevOps Relevant training ;27.66% Of enterprises have introduced DevOps Tools , Plan to carry out secondary development . in addition , Yes 27.39% The enterprise plans to introduce DevOps Professional tools and services , have only 3.92% Of enterprises are not prepared to introduce DevOps.

The input of training cost is not only to make enterprises better use DevOps Tools , because DevOps Tools are constantly updated , So we need to pay higher learning costs . and , From agile development tools 、 Continuous delivery tools 、 The chain from automated operation and maintenance tools to a series of tools related to microservices is very long , And there is a coupling problem , Let enterprises have no way to start .

Is there an automated and integrated DevOps Platform to achieve a smooth and smooth DevOps Well ？ There is . Launched by feisuan SoFlu Software robot is one of them .

Chen Dingwei once said ：“SoFlu The starting point of software robot is to make DevOps Real landing . To achieve ‘ to ground ’ The first priority is to solve the problem of development , Including the quality of development 、 Safety and efficiency, etc , Then gradually solve the problems of testing and operation and maintenance .”

SoFlu  Software robots meet the development needs through visual programming , in other words , Through human-computer cooperation , Software robots can automatically complete software development 、 Testing and operation and maintenance , So as to improve work efficiency , So that users can pay more attention to their own business . During the use of the platform , Can achieve a robot is equivalent to a 10 The effect of human technology team .

Besides , application SoFlu Software robot , Developers can also manage requirements through the management platform 、 Research and development 、 test 、 Deploy 、 go online 、 The whole software life cycle, such as operation and maintenance , Precipitation experience 、 Accumulate knowledge , Truly implement the management system .

Take the test platform as an example ,SoFlu Software robots through automated lifecycle management 、 Automatic test case generation 、 Test data management and other functions , Solve the long time-consuming problem of manual testing 、 Test tracking management is difficult 、 High test cost . Software quality can be achieved through tools 、 Process and management are guaranteed , Instead of relying on experienced software engineers .

Now ,SoFlu Software robots have been applied to medical treatment 、 Finance 、 manufacture 、 Eight industries including retail , Help it land DevOps.

As Ni Guangnan, an academician of the Chinese Academy of engineering, said ,“SoFlu The value of software robots is through standardization 、 Automated processes , Reduce the cost from development 、 Test the threshold of operation and maintenance , Implement the agile management system , Help enterprises reduce costs and increase efficiency , Achieve the goal of improving the innovation speed of the software industry .” And this is also the promotion of tools in enterprises DevOps Should play a role .

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