Business-critical applications in Azure DevOps - do you have the basics in order?

Your business-critical applications

You want your business-critical applications to work 24/7, to have 100% uptime and to be able to be fixed quickly should a problem arise. Preferably at the push of a button! One Button Deploy. More and more people are becoming aware that this is possible. But getting your DevOps team and entire organisation to work in this way requires a transformation. One thing we can guarantee you: planned work goes up and unplanned work goes down. But you have to have guts as an organisation if you really want to take your business-critical applications to the next level. At Allego, for example, no one was allowed to deploy anything manually anymore, with the result that every step is predictable and traceable and the business can release new features faster. You are in control and audit-proof. No more physical data centres, but always accessible and reliable in the cloud.

Move to the cloud with Azure DevOps

Reliable, faster, measurable and predictable to the cloud. It is a mindset. In everything you do, you keep these benefits in mind. Within the stages of the DTAP (develop, test, acceptance and production), repeatable steps occur 99% of the time. We eliminate these as much as possible. In the development and test stage, there is a lot of profit to be made. For example, scripts can be automated, so that knowledge remains secure and little or no human error can be made in the code. Are you dealing with a large deployment? Then with Azure DevOps and our principles from The Golden Path you will be able to take your SaaS applications to production in no time without too many problems. Replace and no repair, zero downtime and scalable.

What do most organisations run into whenmoving to the cloud? A lack of specialist cloud knowledge, teams that do not work in the same way or, on the contrary, teams that do not know about the unprecedented advantages of automating a deployment. It's about breaking patterns, taking a critical look at scripting at the source from the very first moment and consciously choosing to be in control as a business and especially to stay in control! Ultimately it is about the added value of One Button Deploy and the Golden Path for Dev and Ops. See how we brought business-critical applications to the Azure Cloud in a rock-solid cooperation with Qualogy.

The next step to the Golden Path

How does the Golden Path principle work in practice? That is something you have to experience! A number of golden tips that always apply to checking whether you have the basics in order:

1. Everything can be automated

2. Bring Dev and Ops together as a team

3. Use the power of dashboarding

4. Total control within the team

An architecture according to the Golden Path not only ensures better performance, a uniform way of working, more fun and more planned work, but also continuous monitoring of your business-critical applications. Together we build the bridge between business and IT.

Do you have the basics in order? If not, we can help you take the first steps towards reliable applications. Do you have the basics in order but want to enable the business to deploy itself? Then take the following steps with us: connect stakeholders, build everything-as-code and work towards One Button Deploy. Until the next blog in which we take a deep-dive into these basic principles.

If you can't wait that long, please contact us. Also curious what business critical applications have to do with Lego blocks? Then read colleague Joost-Jan's blog here.

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