Leading DevOps technologies – the right tech stack for your needs

The right tech stack is business critical – the influence the stack has ranges from the types of products you will be able to build, the projects you can work on, and even what sort of engineers and team you will hire.

When you are creating a tech stack, some key considerations and factors that you must consider include:

• Scalability
• Security
• Modern functionality

What is DevOps technology stack?

Your tech stack is the collection of technologies you utilise to craft, create, build, and monitor your projects. DevOps requires a high number of programs to function, from monitoring and automation to messaging and creation. When choosing your DevOps technology partners it is important that you work with programs and applications that integrate, can be supported by each other, and are capable of handling updates.

Types of technologies needed for a DevOps stack

In order to operate the process successfully, at a minimum, you need DevOps technologies and tools for:

• Automation
  This software helps to automate the development process, and facilitate feedback loops between Operations and Development, in order to action feedback, deploy faster, and address errors more efficiently.
• Configuration Management (CM)
  CM is required to maintain systems in a specific state – this could be for hardware or software, these tools ensure that system performance is consistent, maintainable, and operates within given expectations over time.
• Containerisation
  One of the most important tools your team will need is appropriate containerisation, somewhere to store the data or package together the code they are developing. This may be done in different forms, such as data libraries, frameworks, or other dependencies – but all of them need their own container to be safely stored in.
• Monitoring
  DevOps can only work effectively when the monitoring system operates correctly, so determining the correct monitoring tools is vital.
• Integration and Delivery
  This software sees the data added before consolidating, transforming, and transforming the data. It may also perform mappings, data cleansing, and provide tools to simplify the process.

Popular providers of DevOps technologies

There are a wide range of DevOps technologies available for your team to work with, some of the most popular include:

Docker
An open platform, Docker is used for developing, shipping, and running applications. It gives creators and developers the ability to build, test, and deploy applications. The program packages software into containers and offers libraries, tools, code, and runtime options.

Ansible
An infrastructure tool, Ansible is used to install services, add hosts, provide provision resources and applications on cloud servers, and allows for the configuration of systems, as well as the deployment of software.

Amazon Web Service (AWS)
A highly flexible platform with a huge range of tools and options, AWS provides services and tools for data engineering, DevOps and supports SaaS-based applications with well-documented services and access to a hosting platform.

Azure
As well as providing a huge range of software and development services, the Microsoft Azure platform supports DevOps with ‘Azure DevOps’ – the service offers integrated features that can be accessed through a web browser or IDE client.

Choosing the right DevOps technologies

Making the right choice of tech for your stack is essential and should be carefully considered before any firm decisions are made. Seeking advice from experts or bringing in third-party teams on board may be preferred solutions when there is a lack of in-house experience of available tools.

Ardent DevOps and operational monitoring and support services

We work with a number of clients to provide DevOps and operational monitoring and support services to ensure consistently high performance, reduce the risk of downtime and provide robust error detection and resolution. If you are working with mission-critical apps and data and seek peace of mind knowing they are handled by experts, we can help. With over 15 years of delivering excellence, the Ardent team are equipped to ensure your success, as we do for many of our clients:

• Making data science efficient with data availability powered by expert operational monitoring and support

Get in touch to find out more or explore our operational monitoring and support services.

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