What are the benefits of following DevOps practices?

 DevOps practices reflect the idea of continuous improvement and automation. Many practices focus on one or more development cycle phases. These practices include:

• Continuous Development. This practice spans the planning and coding phases of the DevOps lifecycle. Version-control mechanisms might be involved.
• Continuous Testing (CT). This practice incorporates automated, prescheduled, continued code tests as application code is being written or updated. Such tests can speed the delivery of code to production.
• Continuous Integration (CI). This practice brings configuration management (CM) tools together with other test and development tools to track how much of the code being developed is ready for production. It involves rapid feedback between testing and development to quickly identify and resolve code issues.
• Continuous Delivery. This practice automates the delivery of code changes, after testing, to a preproduction or staging environment. A staff member might then decide to promote such code changes into production.
• Continuous Deployment (CD). Similar to continuous delivery, this practice automates the release of new or changed code into production. A company doing continuous deployment might release code or feature changes several times per day. The use of container technologies, such as Docker and Kubernetes, can enable continuous deployment by helping to maintain consistency of the code across different deployment platforms and environments.
• Continuous monitoring. This practice involves ongoing monitoring of both the code in operation and the underlying infrastructure that supports it. A feedback loop that reports on bugs or issues then makes its way back to development.

Benefits of DevOps:

The following are some of the benefits of adopting DevOps practices.

• Reduced Change Failure

  When changes are small and distinct rather than large and sweeping, they are safer. Not only the chance of failure decreases, but the recovery time also decreases.

• Better Quality Products

  Products are deployed with fewer bugs, and since deployment is frequent and cycle times are shorter, products can be continuously improved more quickly.

• Lower Cost of Release

  With fewer bugs to fix, shorter cycle times, and a fully automated pipeline, the cost of deploying a release goes down.

• Less Time on Unplanned Work

  With fewer failures, all team members spend less time fixing unexpected issues.

• More Time on New Work

  With less time spent on unplanned work, all team members have more time to spend on innovation and new work.

• Faster Time to Market

  Shorter cycle times with fewer issues means that products can be released more quickly.

• Satisfied Customers

  Rapid release cycles means the ability to quickly fix defects and add new features that customers request.

• Increased Revenue

  If people are satisfied with your products, they are more likely to purchase more of them and recommend them to others.

• Robust Infrastructure

  Infrastructure that is modified in small steps, conducts testing at all stages and maintains versioning for configuration and settings is more stable and reliable.

• Higher Work Satisfaction

  Teams that are spending more time in new work and innovation will be more satisfied than those that are constantly bogged down with rework and bug-fixing.

• Reduce Waste

  Start small to reduce work. There is a common belief that the most waste in software is creating code that is not used. DevOps world, work in small chunks, reduces this waste, providing early feedback with short cycles.

• Faster and More Frequent Releases

  When everything is automated, code can move from development to production more quickly.