DevOps is synonymous with software development today. Yet, many organizations find it difficult to drive maximum results from their DevOps projects. While integrating DevOps tools and methodologies might seem easy, scaling the DevOps vision doesn’t come easily to all.

If you want to deliver applications at the pace of business, you need to embrace the world of DevOps Managed Services. Read on to learn how DevOps Managed Services streamline your development process, automate manual tasks, and allow you to focus on your core business while a provider handles the rest.

The Need for DevOps Managed Services 

Today’s software applications are extremely complex, built using multiple technologies, operating across devices and locations, and catering to the unique needs of different user groups. Implementing DevOps makes it possible to improve software quality, address bugs and issues, and accelerate time-to-market.

However, maintaining and scaling DevOps demands greater collaboration and automation, so teams can ensure continuous delivery. DevOps Managed Services enable organizations to outsource DevOps practices and responsibilities to a qualified and experienced third-party provider. Teams can opt for various Managed Services models:

• Fully Managed Services allow for a provider to handle every aspect of the DevOps lifecycle and is ideal for hands-off control.
• Project-based Services allow for tailored solutions, ideal for migrations or integrations.
• Flexible Services allow teams to choose the level of support they need based on their unique project requirements.

Bringing years of experience and skills in DevOps implementation and management, a Managed Services Partner can establish a robust DevOps culture, overcome challenges, finetune CI/CD processes, and adapt to proven processes and industry trends. Here are some benefits of embracing DevOps Managed Services:  

•   Gap analysis: A Managed Services Partner can help conduct a comprehensive gap analysis to understand the current IT environment, business priorities, and roadblocks. Through a detailed study and assessment, a partner can set up or modernize processes and policies and uncover opportunities to optimize software delivery.
•   Reduced costs: Outsourcing DevOps implementation and management to third-party experts enables extensive savings for teams. Since all services are offered via a pay-as-you-go model, teams can eliminate investments in expensive DevOps tools and licenses. By enabling access to industry-best tools, practices, and technologies, Managed Services can reduce operational overhead while also minimizing administrative burden.
•   Better quality: DevOps Managed Services play a huge role in improving the quality of software products. By automating the entire deployment process from start to finish, a partner can ensure high-quality, consistent, and reliable releases with every iteration.
•   Quicker implementation: DevOps Managed Services enable teams to enjoy quicker implementation. Using time-tested tools and approaches and streamlined CI/CD pipelines, a Managed Services Partner can enable faster development cycles and quicker responses to market changes.
•   Continuous improvement:  A Managed Services Partner can also enable continuous improvement of DevOps approaches, practices, and methodologies. By integrating new trends and requirements into CI/CD pipelines, a partner can adapt the DevOps organization to meet new demands and expectations and uncover ways to further improve quality and timeliness.

What a DevOps Managed Services Partner Brings to the Table

In today’s fast-paced world, agility and speed are key. DevOps Managed Services helps streamline the software development process, automate workflows, and eliminate bottlenecks, propelling applications to market faster than ever. A skilled team of experts can take care of day-to-day operations, freeing up internal resources for higher-value tasks and innovation.

With reduced operational costs, improved application quality, and effortless scalability, software development teams can gain the peace of mind to focus on their core business and achieve their goals with unprecedented efficiency.

•   Consulting experience: A DevOps Managed Services Partner brings sufficient consulting experience that can help take the project in the right direction. Having steered and implemented hundreds of DevOps initiatives across complex environments, a partner can help direct and scale DevOps in ways that generate maximum productivity and value for the business.
•   Technical expertise: Skilled partners have been managing complex DevOps projects for years, and often have extensive technical expertise. Through seamless CI/CD pipeline management, they can optimize workflows, improve reliability, and accelerate time-to-market – propelling projects forward.
•   Best practice know-how: Managed Service Providers have resources with vast experience in DevOps best practices, allowing teams to up their development game. For instance, via efficient containerization and orchestration, a partner can run applications consistently across different environments or leverage the full potential of microservices for unparalleled flexibility.
•   Infrastructure management: Today’s software products are built on a complex and wide-ranging technology foundation that needs continuous management. With DevOps Managed Services, teams can enjoy rapid and automated scaling of infrastructure. Such management can help minimize errors, enhance reliability, and ensure quick provisioning and modification of resources to meet evolving business needs.
•   Strong partnerships: DevOps Managed Services Partners have long-standing and strong partnerships with vendors like Atlassian or Sonar. Being at the leading-edge of innovations allows skilled consultants to build the most advanced DevOps processes and solutions.
•   Access to on-demand skills: DevOps Managed Services have a large pool of skilled resources that can be easily accessed on-demand. Whether teams need help in configuration management, need guidance on the best test approach to take, or just want to scale their DevOps project across more users – an expert partner can enable seamless access to skills as needed.  
•   24×7 support: In a DevOps project, issues and challenges are common. A DevOps Managed Services Provider can offer 24×7 helpdesk support to minimize downtime. Advanced incident response capabilities can enable peace of mind while around-the-clock support via detailed root cause analysis can contribute to continuous improvement, preventing recurring challenges.
•   Knowledge of the right tools: DevOps Managed Services Providers also bring substantial knowledge of the right DevOps tools across various aspects of the DevOps lifecycle. From project and portfolio management to CI/CD, containerization and orchestration to monitoring and logging, configuration management to IaC, and more. Partners have a deep understanding of the capabilities of tools Atlassian, JFrog, JetBrains, GitLab, Sonar, and more, that allow them to successfully implement the tool of choice and enable an integrated DevOps experience across all applications.

Wrapping Up

Every software development team today seeks to streamline pipelines for quicker releases and increased agility. While DevOps plays a huge role in accelerating time to market, efficiently running and scaling a project comes with its own set of challenges.

DevOps Managed Services are a great way to outsource complex day-to-day operations of the software development process, so you can focus on your core business goals. By offloading the cumbersome tasks of automation, infrastructure management, and security, you can free up your developers and IT teams for greater innovation and faster application delivery.

Want to streamline your DevOps projects and achieve peace of mind? Explore our range of DevOps Managed Services to know more. Or speak with our experts to get started!