What is DevOps?

Wikipedia provides a nice summary of the DevOps movement. Some of the highlights include:

• More and smaller changes mean less risk
• Giving developers more environment control
• Giving infrastructure more application-centric understanding
• Clearly articulating simple processes
• Automating as much as possible
• Collaboration between dev and ops

It involves streamlining the transition of a project from development to operations by including all parties in the planning, development and delivery of the product.

DevOps is about bridge-building. It's about filling in the gap between "dev complete" and a production-ready, live system.

Reduced Change Scope

Your application developers may be "Agile ready", but is your infrastructure able to support it? Tableaux facilitates more frequent releases through two technologies:

• World-class release management capability - you can manage even the largest software releases with ease. Provides confidence at the infrastructure level that you can deploy to production as often as your Agile release cycle dictates.
• Developers can automate their own artifacts from the outset using the "self-service" nature of Tableaux. This means fewer issues when deploying to production. Reducing issues is a requirement for more frequent releases.

Increased Release Coordination

The digital war-room built into Tableaux greatly simplifies the release coordinator's job. Plus they get their implementation plans for free, as they are generated automatically by Tableaux from the Release Kits.

During deployment, everybody can follow the release, putting everybody on the same page.

Reduce Siloisation

Tableaux forces your teams to engage each other earlier and opens dialog. Tableaux helps turn friction between teams into collaboration. It does this by:

• Providing a consistent tool that everybody uses.
• Provide a formal platform between teams.
• Provides transparency in the process of software development from start to finish.