What is DevOps?

DevOps - This is a special methodology that combines IT specialists and software developers and mutually integrates their processes into each other to provide quality at all stages of product development. DevOps practise lets make faster product development and optimization than traditional software development and infrastructure management processes.

DevOps-engineer - is a universal specialist who synchronizes and automates workflows and creates an environment that is as close as possible to the conditions for using the product.

DevOps removes the barrier between traditionally isolated development and operations teams. By DevOps culture these groups work together to optimize developer productivity and operational reliability.

Who needs DevOps services?

DevOps services from the "First Number" company

Monitoring and backup

DevOps engineers of the "First Number" company use Zabbix, Graphite, Nagios, etc. to monitor the infrastructure and predict various changes. Before starting any work, our specialists always back up data to minimize losses in unforeseen situations.

Project release management

On a professional level, we organize the release delivery process in cooperation with all involved company structures and help set up version control processes. This contributes to the automation of processes and reduce of risks.

Continuous Integration & Continuous Delivery

Our DevOps engineers set up Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery using Puppet, Chef, Ansible management mechanisms based on Jenkins/Hudson. As a result, this reduces delivery times and improves software quality.

Implementation of third-party software products

Our team is also ready to install ready-made third-party solutions: web servers, application servers, version control systems (VCS), search platforms, file repositories, project management systems, CRM systems and much more. At the same time, we provide a high level of security and prevent errors in the system.

Benefits of implementing DevOps:

• optimized collaboration between Dev and Ops teams;
• high speed of introduction of new features;
• continuous delivery of releases;
• he ability to monitor performance in real time;
• without sacrificing safety.

DevOps tools

The main technologies used by our DevOps engineers:

CM: Puppet, Chef, Ansible;

CI/CD: Jenkins, GitLab CI;

Virtualization and cloud solutions: Docker, Docker compose, Kubernetes, Rancher, Vmware Esxi, MS Hyper-V, kvm, AWS, S3, MS Azure, own cloud service;

Monitoring: Nagios, Munin, Zabbix, Graphite;

RDBMS MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle SQL Server, MSSQL;

Scenarios: Python, Ruby, Perl, shell;

Search platforms: Elasticsearch;

Application servers: Tomcat, MS IIS;

Web servers: nginx, apache;

Project management systems: Atlassian products JIRA, Confluence, Bitbucket, Crowd, HipChat.

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You can get advice on the implementation of the DevOps methodology by contacting our specialists:

e-mail: info@fn.by