PROPER DEPLOYMENT ARCHITECTURE
DevOps is an essential part of any system. DevOps helps to plan the architecture for deployment of any product by which it can be available and accessible to the target audience. It’s an ongoing process, making possible continuous deployment of new features and updates on the system to keep it aligned with a business roadmap. DevOps helps in creating a product with a hybrid solution and taking the best of each technology.
BEST PRACTICES FOR DevOps
- Use of Version controlling systems
Having VCS is one of the best practices of product development. This helps to trace back any previous release. It makes collaboration possible for a more significant project. Development teams can be distributed at various locations and still work on the same project. Restoring a previous version or roll becomes easy. It also is a kind of backup at every stage. - Continuous Integration
It’s a best practice to merge every developer’s code to the main branch once or several times a day. An automated test can then verify each integration. Integrating the codes regularly can detect errors quickly and locate them more easily. It reduces the overall time spent on issue fixing in the project. - Continuous Delivery on a Staging environment
In continuous delivery, code release is automatically prepared for release copy in production. This helps the developer to test the work again as a whole in the system before it goes to end customers on production. This practice makes every release very reliable. - Continuous Deployment on Production environment
Continuous deployment is when code clears all the automated test cases, it will automatically get deployed on the production environment. However, this is not followed by everyone, and production majorly is manually released. - Automated Test Cases for accepting code
Before any release to the end customer, the regression test should be compulsory. So to test all the previously build code is necessary. New development should never break the previous features. These continuous test cases are made automated to keep the regression test for all the releases. These are repetitive in nature. - Continuous monitoring of Production environment
Once the deployment is completed, a general health check of the production server is ignored. However, this practice should be ongoing and routine. If this practice is proactively followed, it guarantees 99.99% uptime for any system.
REED'S DevOps PRACTICES
DevOps is a practice that every product should follow. It brings both developers and operations together to form a smaller and active product development cycle. The team of Reed is specialized in setting up such architecture. It is capable of setting up automated test acceptance and a proper CI/CD process. At Reed, the teams of data scientists are highly experienced and can set up various tools like single sign-on/LDAP authentication, Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes, Gradle, and AWS. Reed also provides hiring services and consulting services for both onsite and offsite DevOps engineers.
Deployment is one of the parameters of a successful product.
