DevOps: Accelerate Software Development with Northdoor

Automate the development, testing, delivery and running of applications

If your organisation develops software in-house, you’ll know it can be a great way to ensure that business users and customers get the best possible experience. However, all too often new releases are slow and expensive, the product doesn’t work as expected, and much of the potential business value is never fully achieved. Typically, the fault is not with any particular team, but rather with the way in which the business, development, testing and operational teams (don’t) work together.

By uniting application development with application operations, DevOps aims to deliver higher-quality software faster and at lower cost. Northdoor’s approach to DevOps combines organisational restructuring with an advanced open-source Automation Platform. Drawing on our own experience of agile iterative software development practices, we can help you design, deploy and support a DevOps capability that will transform the quality, time-to-market and cost-efficiency of your applications.

A DevOps solution from Northdoor can:

accelerate the delivery of applications and updates
reduce cost and complexity in development and testing
enable the continuous delivery of new functionality
better align software with business objectives
create a virtuous circle of ongoing improvement.

To learn more about Northdoor’s solutions around DevOps, email us, complete the form here or call us on 020 7448 8500 to arrange a free initial consultation.

Introduce a continuous cycle

DevOps is an organisational philosophy that aims to enhance communication and coordination between all the teams and tools involved in building and running software. It relies significantly on automation technology, especially to keep code moving through the continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) cycle.

The idea behind CI/CD is to replace the typical start-to-finish structure of a software project with an infinite loop: to meet a business objective a plan is made, code is written, an application is built (or updated), then tested, released, run in production, and monitored; feedback on the application then contributes to a new plan, and the loop starts again.

Northdoor uses the world-class open-source automation software to orchestrate the required connections between teams and tools. To maximise the value of DevOps, the same software can be used to automate the provisioning of infrastructure in a programmatic way; for more information, see our Infrastructure as Code solutions.

Maximise the benefits of software development

Adopting DevOps can help you deliver higher-quality software that aligns more closely to your business needs, and at lower cost than with traditional software-development models. New ideas can be developed into new applications faster and more reliably, potentially improving your competitive edge, and the closer working relationship between application owners, developers and IT operations staff typically results in higher reliability and improved security. Furthermore, DevOps makes it easier to keep tuning applications to meet changing business and customer needs.

Northdoor provides not only the automation solution that power DevOps, but also advice and consulting services to support the cultural and organisational changes that DevOps requires. We can help you review your existing processes, determine the best route to DevOps, plan and execute the transformation, train your teams, and keep reviewing your practices to keep them aligned with industry standards and your own changing requirements.

To find out more about Northdoor’s solutions around DevOps, email us, fill in our contact form or call 020 7448 8500.

Useful links:
Integration for DevOps
Continuous delivery
Application deployment