In 2020, you will clearly see how continuous updates of
DevOps change the delivery method and deliver software to an almost unlimited market. In this world of fierce technological competition, DevOps has become a necessity for booming development.
Guide
Although each enterprise has a different understanding of
DevOps, we can still define DevOps as a mentality adopted by a team to take its engineering capabilities to a new level. The main purpose of DevOps is to remove obstacles in engineering practice, focusing on those cultural barriers that exist between ideas and practices, thereby making the software delivery process better, faster, cheaper, and safer.
No matter what you call
DevOps, it should ultimately come down to automation, which in turn should help the company's rapid development, rapid delivery, rapid failure, rapid recovery, and rapid learning.
From the advent of the SDLC (System Development Life Cycle) model to today, the situation has changed dramatically. In 2009, DevOps was born, it advocates cultural transformation and some technical principles that treat everything as code. Then came ideas such as CI/CD, but the software was once written as a huge monolith, and this transformation process brought many challenges.
Therefore, the microservices architecture was introduced in 2011, which advocates fine-grained and loosely coupled component division, where each component assumes specific responsibilities.
Applications written following this loosely coupled, microservice architecture are called cloud-native applications. Currently, many enterprises are transitioning from virtual machines to Kubernetes and Serverless according to their business needs and goals.
According to the slides released by Kelly Shortridge and Dr. Nicole Forsgren at Black Hat USA 2019, there are four factors that are particularly critical when benchmarking with excellent practitioners in the DevOps industry. They are:
Change lead time
Release frequency
Recovery time
Change failure rate
DevOps performance metrics
In this article, we will learn about the future development trend of DevOps.
Cloud native will become inevitable
Diamanti surveyed more than 500 IT executives. The results show that from all perspectives, container technology has far exceeded expectations, it quickly matured within a year, and shifted from developer testing to production environment. Cloud native technology will rise to a new height, especially the adoption of Kubernetes. Cloud native provides the company with a greater advantage, enabling it to bring products to market faster.
What is cloud native
Adopting cloud native means better innovation, more advanced transformation and a richer customer experience. As I mentioned in another article "
Cloud-Native DevOps", cloud native fundamentally promotes cloud automation. This refers to the automated management of the installation, configuration, and monitoring of cloud computing services. It is about using technology. Make more reliable business decisions for your cloud computing resources at the right time.
According to Oracle's forecast for the future of cloud native, by 2025, 80% of IT companies will move their business to the cloud. The results of the CNCF survey show that the number of companies using cloud-native technologies in production environments has grown by more than 200%.
Abby Kearns, "Cloud Everything"
Last year, Abby Kearns, the executive director of the Cloud Foundry Foundation open source platform as a cloud service provider, delivered a keynote speech at the 2018 LinuxCon + ContainerCon + CloudOpen China (LC3), giving a more in-depth explanation of cloud native and its future.
Kearns said: "Cloud-native technologies and cloud-native applications are growing. Over the next 18 months, the number of cloud-native applications that organizations are writing and using will increase by 100%." She added: "This means you It is no longer limited to investing in IT, but also investing in cloud and cloud technology. (Quote from Abby Kearns' keynote shaping the future of cloud native)
The United States Air Force is one of the best examples she gave in her speech. She talked about how agile they have become and adopted cutting-edge technology and cloud-native principles. The US Air Force has implemented agile practices and is now using cloud technology to develop applications that run on multiple clouds.
Container registration service will show an upward trend
This could have been included in the cloud native part. Nevertheless, I think this still needs special attention, because most software companies are now addicted to container registration services, which can help developers store and manage products and all their dependencies in order to achieve a smooth development of the software development life cycle .
Just like managing the source code of an application in a version control system (such as Git), managing Docker images is also critical. Docker provides similar functions for managing images. These images can be managed on the developer's local host or even on the remote
container registration service (Docker Hub).
However, sometimes these images are prone to many security-related issues, and hackers can easily access them. Therefore, modern companies need a safe and reliable way to manage images through registered services.
For DevOps teams that use containerized applications and microservice architectures, container registration services have become a must-have condition. With the increasing popularity of Docker and cloud-native applications, container image management has become an important part of modern software development. The container registration service is simply a collection of image warehouses, which are mainly used to store container images.
At the recent KubeCon meeting in San Diego, JFrog announced its own container registration service. Based on the powerful features of Artifactory, JFrog Container Registry is a free container registration service that has been severely tested on the market. It is extensible, hybrid, with Artifactory's beautiful user interface and powered by Artifactory.
Other well-known container registration services currently on the market include:
Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR)
Dockerhub
JFrog Container Registry
Azure Container Registry
Google Container Registry
Private container registration services allow companies to implement their own management of containers, including policies, security, access control, etc. The functions that container registration services should have include full hybrid cloud,
Docker registration services, Helm registration services, general warehouses, remote warehouses, virtual repositories, and rich metadata.
Where do I need to use the container registration service?
There are several reasons for the need for container registration services:
With the development of cloud native, we see that enterprise-level digital transformation is underway, using tools such as Kubernetes, Docker, Artifactory, Helm, and Istio. The world is rapidly transitioning to container registration technology, which is the future of rapid and safe delivery of containerized applications.
Hybrid cloud competition is becoming more and more fierce. Most cloud providers provide free registration services for their services because they know the importance of registration services.
Docker containers often take up a lot of storage space and need to be transferred back and forth. This means high storage costs and sometimes security can be an issue. As a result, we see that some companies use Artifactory in addition to Docker, and also use other free tools to manage containers. It's nice to see that JFrog now has its own container registration service:)
The registration service can act as a remote, virtual container warehouse, which contains rich metadata, which is one of the elements in
DevOps.
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