Adoption challenges and key recommendations
We are advancing into the next wave of cloud-native technologies, and CD plays a pivotal role in enabling this. We discussed earlier some of the key advancements for the CD stack; however, there is an uphill road to adopt and scale future capabilities. We see organizations are becoming vigilant and continuing to watch out for cloud exit plans, DevOps is dead, what next?, and so on, partially due to adoption challenges but more because of lack of guidance and support. Let’s discuss how to avoid such pitfalls for CD and cloud-native in general:
- Cost tracking, management, and optimization: It is important to be in control of the return on investment (ROI) of onboarding new technology, tools, and processes. The CD posture can dictate expenditure if this is not managed and optimized consciously. A third-party audit can be one way to keep checks and balances for the future.
- Best practices and general guidelines: We elaborated...