looking atdevops trends – 2023

dev to ops in 2023 – eleven new trends

As DevOps trends of 2023 take shape, it’s important to understand the new capabilities available and how they can be leveraged to your advantage. By understanding how these trends may affect your long-term strategy, you can focus your efforts, empower your DevOps team, and advance your organization in this ever-evolving landscape. 

“DevOps is a set of practices that emphasizes collaboration and communication between teams involved in the software development process. By using tools like automation, continuous integration, and monitoring, DevOps aims to improve the speed and efficiency of software development by bringing together people, processes, and technology.” – here are eleven 2023 DevOps trends you should pay attention to.

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GitOps is a DevOps practice that has been become the most popular in 2023. It speeds teams can up in the production environment by deploying applications quickly and reliably using git-based workflow pipelines. It combines infrastructure as code with version control and automation to enable rapid and secure deployment of applications. This allows for tracking changes, ensures compliance with organizational policies and more effective collaboration. Businesses benefit from improved collaboration between development and operations teams, faster deployments, simplified rollbacks for errors, and greater transparency about software changes across the organization. GitOps is likely to become one of the most significant DevOps trends over the next decade due to its effectiveness in managing complex environments.

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Low code application has appeared as one of the most sought-after DevOps trends for use in 2023. It enables developers to create applications efficiently and quickly without writing complex code. It assists traditional software development teams to transition from monolithic architectures to microservices. They manage to run services independently while unifying them with common management tools and infrastructure. Low code application technology increases agility, provides an intuitive development experience, and reduces development time.

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As the world of DevOps evolves, new clouds have emerged as an important trend that businesses – private clouds. Businesses should prepare for these “single-tenant clouds”, private clouds crucial for companies looking to modernize but refuse to sacrifice security. Businesses use private clouds optimise on traditional cloud features without having to manage their own hardware or infrastructure. Automated scalability, massive storage capabilities, real-time analytics, and data processing are the most prominent features.

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Transforming or augmenting DevOps with Artificial intelligence. The fourth trend to look out for in 2023 is the omni-directional integration of DevOps into Artificial Intelligence (AI). AI is transforming the way businesses think today. From automation to predictive maintenance to self-healing test engines. AI allows developers and operations teams with greater precision and agility to concentrate their efforts on more strategic initiatives. Tremendous potential for streamlining processes exists within an organization. AI enables better product releases and faster development cycles.

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Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD). This involves automatically building products after every code change, then testing those changes to ensure that the entire system is working correctly. CI/CD tools drastically reduce time taken for products to be built and deployed. CI/CD allows companies to launch new features faster or find and fix existing problems quickly.

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Microservices offer increased agility and faster time-to-market for new features or products.

2023, Microservices are set to be a crucial development key in how companies create technology infrastructure. 
A microservice architecture consists of independent components that can be developed and deployed independently from one another.

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ensure that scaling up infrastructure, applications and security does not come at the expense of stability or speed.

Scaling up has to be smartly done when businesses increase their overall load capacity or even just compute capacity.

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With traditional models struggling to keep up with the increasing workloads, businesses are now finding new ways to optimize their processes while still adhering to strict regulations. Companies are introducing better tracking systems, automating manual systems and mechanisms which accelerate their progress while staying compliant.

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By using observability tools and practices, teams can identify issues and anomalies in a system and take corrective action to prevent problems from occurring or worsening. This can help to improve the reliability and performance of a system, as well as the overall quality of the software.

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Observability has become an increasingly important DevOps practice and is set to remain a key trend in the decade ahead. It is a critical aspect of the development and operation of software systems, as it enables development and operations teams to identify and resolve issues quickly and effectively. Observability and monitoring in DevOps involve the use of tools for logging, monitoring, and tracing practices to understand the behaviour and performance of a system. This includes tracking metrics such as response times, error rates, and resource utilization, as well as collecting traces of system activity and logs.

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DevSecOps is an approach to software development that integrates security into the development process from the very beginning. Security considerations are looked at from the earliest stages of the development process. Overall, DevSecOps aims to improve the security and reliability of software by integrating security into the development process and making it an integral part of the culture and practices of the development and operations teams. It aims to “shift security left”, rather than being an afterthought.

optimisation of your devops security

DevSecOps’ impact on DevOps practices for 2023 is becoming significant. Automated security tests are a best practice in DevOps security. Basically, the tests use specialized software tools to automatically test and validate the security of an application. These tests enable teams to better identify and evaluate potential vulnerabilities in the application’s code, configuration, and infrastructure.

There are several types of automated security tests, including:

Vulnerability scanning. This type of test uses specialized software to scan the application’s code and infrastructure for known vulnerabilities. Often this includes scanning for known vulnerabilities in the application’s dependencies, as well as identifying any misconfigurations that could lead to a security incident.

Penetration testing. This type of test simulates a real-world attack on the application to identify potential vulnerabilities that could be exploited by an attacker. This can look like tests on the application’s network and web interfaces, plus attempts to gain unauthorized access to sensitive data.

Runtime protection. This type of test monitors the application in real-time and provides proactive protection against potential vulnerabilities. The aim is to identify and block malicious activity before losses occur.

Fuzz testing. This type of test focuses on identifying vulnerabilities in an application by providing it with unexpected inputs. Automated security tests are important in DevSecOps because they allow you to identify and evaluate potential vulnerabilities early in the development process. Automated security tests can also ensure that your code is secure and compliant with regulations. Automated security tests can be run as part of the continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipeline, making security testing an integral part of the development process. The goal is to catch and fix vulnerabilities as soon as they are introduced or detected. This is far better than finding waiting for vulnerabilities in the production environment (which can cost a ton of time and money).

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