By Agile Stacks
A few months ago Jason Bloomberg published a great article in Forbes:
You’re Now ‘Cloud First.’ Are You Ready To Be ‘DevOps First’?
It is so true that in order to unlock the real benefit of the cloud, it’s necessary to implement DevOps. If you don’t start with
DevOps, “productivity can grind to a halt because development teams can’t deploy their code.”
Cloud and DevOps go hand in hand – while you can have one without another, they are much stronger when applied together. It’s a classic case where the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.
I still remember conversations a few years ago, when enterprise IT leaders were saying “cloud is only for startups”, “cloud is not compatible with our IT processes”, or “cloud is insecure”. Times have changed, and it is now broadly recognized that Cloud-First strategy unlocks innovation, creating limitless possibilities. Also, we observe how traditional companies that are not leveraging the cloud are already falling behind both in terms of innovation and security. The latest example is Equifax, which was hit with a devastating cyber attack. Equifax did not keep most sensitive data in the cloud, and data centers can be even less secure than the cloud. They got hacked because of easily preventable vulnerability. If only they had DevOps that provides ability to redeploy software more frequently, this massive data breach could have been avoided.
Read the entire article at https://www.agilestacks.com/blog/cloud-and-devops-better-together
