DevOps
In a broader sense, DevOps is a philosophy or set of practices that promote better communication and collaboration between software development teams and all other stakeholders in a company.
In a narrower sense, DevOps is a gradual, but automated application development methodology that enables IT organizations to produce software and services faster and of higher quality. This results in applications better adapted to user needs, contributing to their market competitiveness. The DevOps approach to software development is one of many techniques Comping has been using for a long time to address the demands of its clients.
Development Platform Automation
Today, the code development process comprises many different programming frameworks, libraries, development environments, and technological tools, which are used and integrated within a single software ecosystem.
DevOps facilitates this development by automating it and placing various solutions into modularly connected containers (e.g. using the Kubernetes platform). Moreover, such an approach avoids the need for separate software deliveries, which often depend on the infrastructure used by the client, because the DevOps process can be used in any system, on any infrastructure.
This results in higher development speed and robustness of the delivered application.
CI / CD (Continuous integration & Continuous delivery)
DevOps methodology uses continuous integration (CI) and continuous software distribution or delivery (CD). Continuous integration is carried out by automatically testing program code during development, while continuous distribution automatically installs the tested code on the system where it will be deployed.
This significantly shortens the installation process of new functionalities and speeds up debugging. To improve its DevOps knowledge and offer its clients a complete automation solution, Comping uses tools such as Jenkins, GitLab DevOps, Tekton, and ArgoCD.
Observability and monitoring
Monitoring IT systems behavior and data they generate should result in valuable business insights. However, with the global spread of cloud services, universal use of portable devices, and Internet of Things technologies, simple monitoring is no longer enough. This is why we need technical solutions for IT system observability – i.e. to be able to discern what we know and what we do not know about monitored systems. In other words Comping, by monitoring and noticing changes in the operation of IT systems, helps companies understand the processes in the applications they use and, in the shortest possible time, corrects the observed defects and errors in operation of these applications and processes.
Advantages of monitoring and observability:
- Understanding how the application works and discovering its potential bottlenecks.
- Comparing the processed request with the expected behavior of the application or process.
- Determining why a specific request was not implemented.
- Verifying each request with the microservice in charge of its implementation.
