DevOps Adoption: Pathway to Collaborative Success
Organizations that adopt a DevOps culture have 60x fewer failures than their peers. DevOps leads to better collaboration, fewer errors, and faster innovation. Get your teams on board to improve your entire application services lifecycle.
What Is A DevOps Culture? Embracing Agile
Automation is integral to the DevOps way. Using automation tools, all teams becomes more efficient: freeing everyone from repetitive and redundant tasks.
DevOps adopts a continuous delivery mindset. Dev teams push out a limited number of features in every iteration; if a failure occurs, the likely culprit is the most recent set of features. This agile, rolling deployment process enables fast fixes.
Traditionally, developers don’t look for errors as they are writing the code. Using a reliability engineering framework, developers look for possible errors as they work. This not only enhances design, but it creates a culture of responsibility.
Learn more about Burwood's DevOps culture in our recent blog: How Our DevOps Team Adopted Agile Practices →
Why DevOps? Better Collaboration, Fewer Errors, Faster Innovation
Software engineers, developers, quality assurance engineers, and network engineers have a tough time working together. Inter-departmental communication problems have domino-like consequences for application deployment and feature improvement. In a DevOps culture, teams work in unison to reach joint goals.
Burwood Group teaches you to use DevOps to improve application speed to market, support business agility requirements, and create a happier workforce.
Getting Started: The DevOps Maturity Journey
DevOps enablement is a gradual process. Begin with priority use cases for your business and expand from there. Here, Burwood’s DevOps Maturity Model shows the build from foundational components to fully-autonomous services:
Four Stages of Digital Transformation
DevOps is about transformation, innovation, and culture. Burwood Group is a proud supporter of North American DevOps Group. NADOG hosts user groups across the country for like-minded enthusiasts, from CIOs to developers, to collaborate and learn. Click to view upcoming events.
Educational Web Series with NADOG
Does your organization leverage technology in actionable ways to enable better decision-making, create new efficiencies, and improve your customer experience? In this on-demand webinar series, Burwood’s consultants guide you through implementing Digital Transformation in your organization in four stages:
Infrastructure As Code: A DevOps Way To Improve IT
How many workloads, networks, virtual machines, libraries, services, and load balancers do your infrastructure administrators and engineers manage? As enterprise IT environments become more complex, IT infrastructure management becomes more complex. With infrastructure as code (IaC), we can “codify” our repeatable processes - like changing configurations and filing tickets - to happen automatically on a massive scale.
Scaling Classroom Applications with Infrastructure As Code
When Brown University recognized scaling issues with a critical classroom application, they engaged Burwood to create an automated production environment. Together, our teams were able to:
Reconfigure the Kubernetes architecture to support the new requirements, focusing on six critical changes
Leverage Terraform to write 1,000+ lines of code and create an automated infrastructure as code framework
Complete all work on an accelerated timeframe to be ready in time for the new semester to begin
What Is Infrastructure As Code?
Infrastructure as code is the process of defining, managing and provisioning compute, network, and storage through machine-readable definition files, rather than physical hardware configuration or interactive configuration tools.
By 2022, 90% of applications will feature microservices architectures. Infrastructure as code (IaC) enables you to automate application deployment, provisioning, and runtime orchestration. Burwood uses platforms and tools like Kubernetes and Terraform to write code that transforms your productivity.
Engage Burwood to Transform the Way You Work
Infrastructure as code has the potential to transform your day-to-day tasks and time management. Begin by identifying small use cases and problems that can be improved with automated spin-up and scaling. Burwood’s cloud engineers have solved for these real client issues:
Used Google Cloud Platform and Terraform to write over 1,000 lines of code, enabling automated classroom deployment and sizing for computer science classroom software
Automated the infrastructure deployment process to enable the client’s engineers to spend less time on manual work, and more time on high-value strategic planning and decision-making
Standardize the infrastructure deployment process to drastically reduce the possibility of human error
““Before we started this project, we had problems like monolithic code bases and pricey Google Cloud bills. Now, we’ve created a modular code base that deploys a variety of classes with cost predictability. And we’re moving towards a DevOps culture and methodology.””
Kubernetes: Create Resilient and Scalable Workloads
What Is Kubernetes?
Kubernetes is a container orchestration platform open sourced by Google. It is a loosely-coupled collection of components centered around deploying, maintaining, and scaling applications.
Kubernetes abstracts away the underlying hardware of the physical infrastructure and enables you to deploy and manage container-based applications at scale.
Kubernetes has matured to become one of the largest open source projects, widely adopted in the enterprise.
An open source container orchestration platform from Google, Kubernetes has matured to be a foundational piece of modern infrastructure. For IT leaders managing legacy infrastructure environments, Kubernetes has potential to transform the way your team manages and scales application services. With the benefits of automation and orchestration, your team can spend less time on routine configuration and utility tasks and more time on building and brokering services for your users.
The Benefits of Kubernetes in the Enterprise
Burwood Group’s cloud engineers are experts in Kubernetes environment design, remediation, deployment, and knowledge transfer. We see our clients experience transformational benefits to their IT infrastructure performance and management:
Increased Velocity
Immutability
Self-Healing
Increased Scalability
Control and Automate Deployments and Updates
Run Everywhere
When Burwood’s cloud services team wanted to improve the speed and security of our own customer management portal, we migrated to containers on Google Cloud using Kubernetes. Today our managed services clients experience a consistent, secure interface for viewing the health of their on-premises, cloud, and hybrid infrastructures.
Manufacturing
Leverage continuous improvement principles and practices to increase your supply chain efficiency and outcomes.
Financial Services
Bring value to your customers with faster application and feature releases, while maintaining compliance and security standards.
Healthcare
Improve your application development and delivery process to pave the way for new healthcare services.
Higher Education
Streamline your operations and free up resources to work on strategic initiatives to improve the student and faculty user experience.
DevOps Partners
Contact Burwood to get started.
Engage Burwood Group to lead a complimentary DevOps Workshop with your team. On-site or virtually, a Senior Cloud Architect will facilitate a deep-dive, technical conversation reviewing your short and long-term goals, user and organizational expectations, and recommend next steps for DevOps adoption