IBM's Approach & realization of devOps.

The IBM solution for DevOps helps an organization collaborate across a broad group of stakeholders that includes not only development, but also line of business, clients, and operations teams

The value of DevOps can be illustrated as an innovation and delivery lifecycle, with a continuous feedback loop to learn and respond to customer needs.

The DevOps solution: What is needed?

Use a common set of practices based on lean thinking to maximize value through collaborative development and continuous testing (enabling continuous innovation), and eliminate any activity that does not directly benefit the customer.

Automate manual and overhead activities (enabling continu-ous delivery) such as change propagation and orchestration, traceability, measurement, progress reporting, etc.

Create a closed loop feedback mechanism (enabling continu-ous learning) in a customer facing environment

Use meaningful measurement and monitoring of progress (enabling continuous optimization) for improved visibility across the organization, including the software value delivery supply chain.

The following figure showcases the DevopOps capabilities.

The IBM solution to enable DevOps.

IBM provides an open, standards-based DevOps platform that supports a continuous innovation, feedback and improvement lifecycle, enabling a business to plan, track, manage, and auto-mate all aspects of continuously delivering business ideas. At the same time, the business is able to manage both existing and new workloads in enterprise-class systems and open the door to innovation with cloud and mobile solutions. This capability includes an iterative set of quality checks and verification phases that each product or piece of application code must pass before release to customers. The IBM solution provides a continuous feedback loop for all aspects of the delivery process (e.g., customer experience and sentiments, quality metrics, service level agreements, and environment data) and enables continu-ous testing of ideas and capabilities with end users in a customer facing environment.

IBM’s DevOps solution consists of the open standards based platform, DevOps Foundation services, with end to end DevOps lifecycle capabilities.