DevOps attempts to bridge the gap between an enterprise’s development and operations teams. But DevOps is not just about breaking down the silos between these two. For DevOps to be successful, you must evaluate each manual operation in the delivery pipeline for potential automation. This includes how you work with databases.
Fortunately, there are things you can do to facilitate collaboration between developers and database administrators (DBAs), to pave the way for database DevOps. Here are key strategies for—and challenges with—integrating database changes into a DevOps process.
Why you need database DevOps
Developers often must wait for database changes (done by DBAs) to be complete before they can proceed with their work. Such hold-offs—or time lapses, to be more precise—are costly and detrimental to the team’s overall productivity.
This is exactly where database DevOps comes in.
A proper, planned approach toward integrating database changes as part of a DevOps process can accelerate the delivery of database changes and promote agility across the entire IT ecosystem.
Failure to include database changes as part of the DevOps practice may slow down your processes. DevOps practices facilitate shorter iterations and faster releases. In bringing DevOps to the database, you can have a leaner and faster development process.
Strategies and challenges
The objective of integrating database changes as part of a DevOps process is to increase the speed of delivery of any database changes. However, there are challenges also.
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