| | JUNE 201819CIOReviewEvolution of Technological TrendsAutomation continues to be one of the largest trends we see in the DevOps Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) workspace. Throughout my career, I continually find ways to provide consistency, streamline, and automate the Application Lifecycle Management (ALM). I started the DevOps journey in early 2000's on the operations side. We would find ways to improve deployment reliability, optimize systems, and reduce configuration creep. This fostered a collaborative culture between our Dev, Ops and Sec teams.Automation has been crucial to opening up collaboration and allows us to move significantly faster and safer. Outside of culture, I feel that the availability of virtualization in the early 2000's was a crucial turning point in our industry. It allowed us to automate processes never possible before, drastically reduce provisioning time, allow consistent environments, do more with less, and consolidate servers, to name a few of its advantages.This decade has been about increasing velocity by breaking applications into smaller pieces, containers and the cloud. This "velocity" allows teams to deploy faster; if a team deploys faster, they can generate revenue faster, fix faster, and adapt faster. It's a really exciting time, as we are getting rid of "traditional" bottlenecks and are now encountering the next generation of bottlenecks. Challenges in Adopting DevOps The main challenge is creating a culture that empowers teams to openly communicate, to collaborate with each other, to work in an agile methodology, and to achieve unified goals. The shift is for everyone in the company to start thinking what our company's goals are and how to align our team's goals to help achieve these goals. Another challenge is scaling DevOps in the organization. The way I look at it, the name DevOps is where the cultural change starts and not ends. The true transformation takes place when the rest of the business culture starts transforming. DevOps benefits the By Marc Priolo, VP, City National BankBUILDING THE NEW PARADIGM OF NEXT-GEN DEVOPS MANAGEMENTCX INSIGHTSMarc Priolo
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