Digital teams are believed to manage a growing percentage of business revenue. Experts believe chief information officers (CIOs) have taken on the responsibility to meet changing needs to drive efficiency, growth, and resilience in an uncertain market. Development Operations (DevOps) can drive an enterprise software revolution, helping IT to accelerate innovation and deliver business value faster. While automated testing is largely solving the code quality problem, DevOps is trying to solve the code vulnerability problem. “Recent outrages with cloud applications or social media platforms have not been because of poor code quality but because of configuration mismanagement. Configuration data are parameters, and their values allow us to customise the operation of an application or an element of an IT infrastructure. Automated and centralised configuration change management across the DevOps toolchain is the way to build digital immunity, and reduce system downtime thus translating into higher revenue,” Sumeet Mathur, VP, Managing Director, ServiceNow India Technology and Business Centre, told FE-TransformX.
The global DevOps market is expected to reach $57.90 billion by 2030, with a CAGR of 24.2% from 2021 to 2030, as per insights from Allied Market Research, a market research firm. From what it is understood, the IT industry in India uses several automation approaches to undertake repetitive tasks for creating, testing and managing software. Instead of people doing the same tasks over and over again, like testing or setting up servers, the automation of DevOps allows machines to complete these tasks quickly and without mistakes. This can eventually help software development and operations teams work faster, reduce errors, and save time and effort. The revenue in the software market can reach $659.00 billion in 2023. Among them, enterprise software dominates the market with a market volume of $271.80 billion in 2023, as per insights from Statista, a market research platform.
Industry experts believe DevOps maintain consistency in IT company by treating every software development and operation as code. This makes sure that everything stays the same and consistent. Case in point, companies such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), use the Infrastructure as Code (IaC) approach, where they use code to create and manage the servers and resources needed for running software. This means that the setup of servers and systems is written down in a way that can be easily reproduced. “Organisations in India are seeking DevOps engineers. They look for a combination of strong technical, functional, automation, and soft skills, which are crucial DevOps tools. Functional skills pertain to domain-specific knowledge, tailored to one’s industry. Automation skills, often underrated and not part of conventional education courses, are essential to fostering a DevOps culture through an understanding of automation tools and frameworks,”Prashanth Nanjundappa, VP, Product Development, Progress, explained.
As it is understood, making people work together is one of the most challenging tasks in a digital era, and making them collaborate in the knowledge space is even more demanding. “To ensure effective collaboration and facilitate the smooth flow of information, the IT industry must embrace a variety of tools designed to address different aspects of their work. The drive towards cloud migration is also motivated by the need to enable DevOps and DevSecOps. Depending on the specific area of work, numerous tools are available for design, collaboration, development, testing, and delivery,” Saravanan Thangavelu, Senior VP- enterprise IT, HGS, mentioned, adding that tools such as Microsoft Teams, Webex, Google Meet, GitHub, code validation and test automation tools, can help create synergies among the various actors in the supply chain.
Industry experts believe that DevOps engineers play a crucial role in enhancing collaboration and automation in the Indian IT industry. DevOps is believed to transform a linear approach by dismantling barriers and enabling parallel workflows. It eventually allows collaboration among developers, operations, and security teams, seamlessly integrating them into the software development life cycle (SDLC) process. Accounting for 7.5 % of the GDP in the financial year 2023, the IT-BPM has played a significant role in India’s socio-economic growth, so much so that it could be the future driver of modern India.
India made up more than 19% of the global IT spending, as per insights from Statista, a market research platform. However, India has strict regulatory requirements in certain industries, such as finance and healthcare, which can make it challenging to implement DevOps practices without violating compliance rules. “ Organisations are working closely with compliance experts and legal teams to ensure that DevOps practices comply with all regulations. Companies may create specialised compliance pipelines and documentation to streamline the process,” Raja Gupta, solution architect, SAP, concluded.
