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Enterprise DevOps: Continuous Delivery Services Accelerate innovation and application release end-to-end
Many organizations recognize DevOps as the collaborate. Adding Continuous Deployment ■ Management of Organizational Change best way to deliver value faster, reduce risk, and and Release is more than adding automated to drive adoption and cultural change achieve outcomes for both the organization infrastructure provisioning. It is about chang- and customers. Many have taken a bottom-up ing how apps and ops teams work together. All Our approach is iterative. We: approach: adopt an initial set of capabilities, these changes necessitate not just new tech- ■ Assess your current capabilities depending on their needs, and expand from nology but alignment of processes, teams, and Develop a prioritized roadmap of there. While this seems like a reasonable ap- KPIs. In fact, it is in the latter components that ■ proach, it suffers from one serious drawback: the tough challenges lie. activities, clearly identifying quick adopting one DevOps capability after another wins as well as mid- and long-term in a piecemeal manner is incredibly challenging DevOps spans the entire IT Value Chain, and initiatives and usually does not deliver on the end-to-end driving adoption of the necessary changes ■ Accelerate implementation using the DevOps promise. across technology, process, culture, and over- Model Office as the reference point all mindset is key to success. ■ Combine coaching with Management Micro Focus® Enterprise DevOps: Continuous of Organizational Change consulting Delivery Services bring a top-down approach Our Approach to assist with the adoption of any new to complement the bottom-up one you have At Micro Focus Professional Services, we have DevOps practices, processes, and tools likely taken. Together, they will help you achieve helped many customers succeed with a “think the primary DevOps objective: accelerating ■ Drive continuous execution, in line with big, start small” approach. This approach uses application delivery. the roadmap our Enterprise DevOps Operating Model to set the vision, and starts the implementation The Whole Is Greater Than where you can make the biggest impact in the Protecting Your Investment the Sum of Its Parts shortest time through: We recognize that you may have already made Continuous Delivery is about accelerating ap- investments in your tooling. We protect your in- Our Enterprise DevOps Model Office ■ vestment with our best-of-breed approach. Our plication delivery end to end. reference implementation DevOps Model Office provides pre-configured Continuous Delivery is comprised of Contin ■ Best-of-breed (Micro Focus, third-party, integrations, using our Common Integration uous Integration, Testing, Deployment and Re and Open Source software) technology Framework, between our software solutions lease. However, the whole is greater than the stack (such as Micro Focus ALM Octane and Micro sum of its parts. If you started with Continuous ■ Our Enterprise DevOps Operating Model Focus Hybrid Cloud Management Suite) and Integration, moving to Continuous Testing with its process maps, KPIs, roles and your third-party and Open Source tools (such is more than just adding test automation. It responsibilities, and Scaled Agile as Jenkins, Bamboo, Chef, Puppet, and Git). is about changing how dev and test teams Framework (SAFe) alignment Services Flyer Enterprise DevOps: Continuous Delivery Services
Figure 1. Continuous Delivery
Service Overview ■ Better code quality techniques (e.g. static Integration as it allows teams to scale work analysis, code decoupling, and unit testing) Continuous Integration volumes and process more changes without Continuous Integration is a practice that en- ■ End-to-end continuous integration compromising quality. courages developers to collaborate closely process: from check out, through unit while focusing on code quality. It requires testing, to build and deployment Micro Focus Continuous Testing Service im plements these principles and helps you to them to check- code into a shared repository ■ Rapid provisioning of development and several times a day, where it is verified by an test environments adopt capabilities such as: automated build. This enables development ■ Accelerated testing with a collaborative teams to detect problems early in the cycle. Continuous Testing test-driven approach
Continuous Testing is the practice of execut- ■ Automated testing capabilities across Micro Focus Continuous Integration Service ing automated tests as part of the software all stages implements these principles and helps you delivery pipeline, to obtain immediate feed- Shift-left testing with network, service adopt capabilities such as: back on the business risks associated with the ■ and data virtualization ■ Common approach and integrated software release. It requires developers and tooling platform for IDEs, source control, testers to work together to improve the overall ■ Overall test process Integrated with build, testing, and deployment tools quality of the product. It augments Continuous development, build, and deployment
2 Continuous Deployment & Release ■ Increase agility by ramping up test velocity, Continuous Deployment & Release is a prac- coverage, and efficiency tice that promotes a successful build across ■ Reduce the cost of development through the stages of the DevOps pipeline and makes early defect detection it available for deployment in production. The ■ Improve productivity through better stage gates of the pipeline can be fully auto- orchestration, collaboration, and feedback mated using test status as a decision criterion or can involve a human decision maker. The Micro Focus Professional This practice bundles applications, infrastruc Services Difference Contact us at: We provide unmatched capabilities with a ture, middleware, and their supporting in www.microfocus.com stallation processes and dependencies into comprehensive set of Enterprise DevOps release packages that transition across the consulting and implementation services and Like what you read? Share it. lifecycle. It creates a repeatable, reliable pro- unique intellectual property that help you ac- cess for deployment and release into pro- celerate innovation and deliver high-quality duction by providing process automation that applications faster. We bring: orchestrates complex deployments across all ■ Market-leading technology of your enterprise environments. Deployment ■ Unique DevOps Operating Model and and release automation bridges the DevOps Model Office reference implementation divide by simplifying and automating handoffs and deployments across development and ■ Global reach with practitioner-level operations teams. experience in implementing DevOps tool chains within complex organizations Micro Focus Continuous Deployment & Release ■ Expertise in Micro Focus tools and Service implements these principles and helps their practical application for DevOps you adopt capabilities such as: ■ More than 20 years of experience helping ■ Defined, enforceable release processes, large, complex, global organizations realize from planning to production value from their Micro Focus investments ■ Choice and flexibility with support for ■ Knowledge, expertise, and experience hybrid cloud, Docker-based and mobile in managing organizational change for deployments transforming organizations ■ A centralized release calendar, detailed ■ Best-of-breed tool frameworks for process metrics, and easy-to-use continuous integration, testing, delivery, dashboards deployment, operations, and assessment ■ Simplified decision making, approvals, ■ Extensive educational services for request routing, and issue remediation Enterprise DevOps, Scaling Agile Framework, and Application Lifecycle ■ Automated application and platform deployment, with fully orchestrated IT Management processes and actions Learn more at Benefits www.microfocus.com/softwareservices Our Continuous Delivery Service can provide https://software.microfocus.com/ you immediate and tangible benefits: software/devops-solutions ■ Accelerate the pace of your application release without compromising quality and security
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