Why NetApp for DevOps

The pace of application development has accelerated to unprecedented levels. According to IDC, four times as many applications and services will be deployed over the next four years than were deployed in the last 40. It’s a dramatic shift, which has required organizations to rethink their approach. Namely, by leveraging DevOps methodologies to scale application innovation and get new features and functionality into market at a pace the world demands.

That said, in a market dominated by siloed point solutions, the road to DevOps can be complicated, and many organizations struggle to get far. In fact, Gartner predicts that 75% of DevOps initiatives will fail to meet expectations due to issues around organizational learning and change. A successful DevOps journey depends on building a culture of collaboration, communication, and integration within IT.

NetApp is built for DevOps

At NetApp, we take a holistic view of helping our customers experience success with DevOps. To that end, we offer unique value across six core capabilities that we believe empower DevOps teams to develop in the right way.

If you have a manual process and it’s something you have to do more than once, the mantra is: Automate it. Code it. Not just application code or test and deployment configurations—code everything. By treating everything that developers need as code, you get a standardized, controlled way to onboard projects, applications, and teams.

Everything as Code (EaC) is essential to a successful container strategy. Without it, you’ll have too many containers and clusters to administer manually and you will never achieve cloud-native scale. Automation through EaC is the only way to increase your server- or container-to-admin ratio. Having everything checked into a source control management system, such as Git, as well as version control, allows you to always have a "last known good configuration" point for your entire platform, applications, and infrastructure.

NetApp makes it easy for developers, testing, QA, and operations teams to consume infrastructure resources (such as persistent storage volumes) as code, all from within familiar tools in the DevOps pipeline. Examples include NetApp storage APIs and IAC integrations with tools such as Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes, and OpenShift.

In this uncertain world, you need to be able to pivot quickly and be agile with your resources. That’s not always achievable with traditional infrastructures, which depend on manual processes that aren’t optimized for stateful applications. You need a DevOps pipeline that seamlessly weaves together provisioning, development, testing, and deployment. To iterate faster, your developers need every process to be self-service, automated, and on-demand.

NetApp offers API-first infrastructure with deep integrations and built-in automation so that you can quickly set up your pipeline and take advantage of Kubernetes containers and third-party applications. And no one does storage persistence and cloud native like NetApp. We help you build an enterprise-ready DevOps pipeline for data-rich, stateful applications that integrate seamlessly with the world’s largest clouds.