siliconindia | | January 20179such as websites powered through con-tent management system, digital asset management and mobile application backend will be hosted on public cloud. The MU digital platform is a good ex-ample of cloud and DevOps working together to increase the enterprise out-reach. Cloud is known for its flexibility, agility, simplicity, and cost saving. It's definitely more popular than DevOps.DevOps combines agile operations and establishes greater level of col-laboration between development and operations staff. Deploying DevOps in cloud, thus, has several advantages. To-gether cloud and DevOps can improve collaboration. When inserted in cloud, DevOps enables strengthened collabo-ration across business functions, auto-mation, and version control. While it's a transformational match, the advan-tages of DevOps in the cloud are yet to be tapped by most organizations seek-ing for digital transformation. Yet, the future will see the increased usage of DevOps tools with the cloud to achieve digital transformations. One is Reason for Another's Accelerated SuccessCloud computing is essential to suc-ceed with DevOps. Within the cloud, DevOps delivers transparent and stan-dardized access to resources with ap-plication programming interfaces that allows essential communication be-tween applications and back-end ser-vices. In order to achieve the demand-ing delivery requirements, deployment process from development to produc-tion has to be automated and the virtual platforms should be flexible and fluid. Interestingly, Cloud providers are hap-pily getting in to the area of supporting their customers' DevOps needs. They provide a set of Platform as a Service (PaaS) tools that are attuned to their en-vironments. Cloud platform providers consolidate and integrate automation and management into the cloud envi-ronment so that IT organizations can achieve better automation in the same cloud. It would, thus, not be wrong to say that PaaS solutions are going to become the next generation of DevOps tools. Native cloud solutions are being designed and utilized to solve the rap-id deployment related issues. Thus, the evolution of cloud in the new direction of DevOps is inevitable. Google Cloud Platform and Amazon Web Services' Cloud Formation is a couple of such examples of cloud platforms that ca-ter to DevOps's needs. In the coming years, the industry will see the cloud native absorption of different automa-tion features for DevOps' needs. Yet, enterprises need to understand the right way of combining cloud and DevOps. For example, parts of the overall devel-opment process should be automated. As DevOps process can exist in a hy-brid cloud, it needs to support multiple cloud providers. Most importantly, it needs the right talent and needs the re-sources to be trained accordingly. Sim-plify roles. For example, encourage resources to master in the combined skills of development and operations. The success lies as much in the tech-nologies as in the talent.One Brings `Harmony' in Another's WorldThere's a connection between DevOps and the cloud deployment. There is a greater acceptance of the fact that DevOps can help significantly with the effective and essential roll out of cloud. DevOps brings harmony in a cloud world. In terms of creating value for the 21st Century Enterprise, both DevOp as well as Cloud aim to achieve flexibility and automation across organizations. Most importantly, together they bring various functions of businesses togeth-er. In addition, DevOps helps organiza-tions move towards automation swiftly, it's a precursor for cloud deployment. However, DevOps comes with its own challenges. For professional develop-ers, the operations skills and discipline are not easy to adopt. As the 21st Centu-ry Enterprises believe that siloed orga-nizations need to break down, develop-ers, operations personnel and end-users are required to get together to make it a success. Industry experts, thus, believe that for DevOps professionals, it's im-portant to master the communications skills rather than just knowing the de-velopment and operations work.A Couple That Has a Win-Win FutureA DevOps strategy can be more pow-erful and successful in the cloud envi-ronment. Together, cloud and DevOps have shifted the IT thoughts and focus from `outage-related' discussions to the discussions related to `swift deploy-ment' and `additional functionality'. Together, they both help organizations achieve flexibility and automation. While DevOps and cloud are known for their independent identities, they bring value to other's existence. Hence, they must be leveraged together for a win-win future. Kalyan Kumar
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