How Modern DevOps

Teams Use MongoDB

Atlas to Enhance
Productivity
How Modern DevOps Teams Use
MongoDB Atlas to Enhance Productivity

DevOps is “DevOps” is a term that gets tossed around

a lot these days. People speak about it as
a development philosophy and a practice
transformational, (and they’re right — it’s both). Despite the
widespread popularity of DevOps, however,
but are businesses it’s often not used to its full potential.

embracing it?
Before DevOps, developing code required multiple siloed teams
with unique responsibilities. They typically fell into two different
categories: development teams and operations teams. Developers
would write code. Operations teams would set up servers, deploy
software, and keep it running.

But this is a largely inefficient way of doing things. It can cause

multiple bottlenecks. Efficiency suffers, deadlines are missed, and
teams fight over who is at fault for bad code.

Emerging in 2008, DevOps pioneered the idea of merging the

development and operations teams into a unified force that
allowed for lightning-fast development.

It’s a culture of lean management principles that allows for sharing

and measurement for rapid improvement. Its goal is to make sure
everything that can be automated is automated. Servers can
be scaled up and down effortlessly. Monitoring is streamlined.
Everything is in code, so anyone with a baseline knowledge can
pick up where the last coder left off.
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The 2019 State of DevOps Report showcases

the following improvements (thanks to
the DevOps philosophy and practice):

More frequent deployment (208x)

Faster lead time (106x)

Faster time to restore service (2,604x)

Lower fail rate (7x)

Not only are these numbers compelling,

but they’re also up significantly from 2018.
But committing to DevOps fully is easier said than done.
To this day, most teams aren’t completely embracing DevOps and
continue to be fractured and siloed in their overall approach.
It’s because taking part in an aspect of DevOps isn’t true DevOps.
Automated application deployment is not DevOps. DevOps is
start-to-finish, using infrastructure as a code model to speed
up your provision services without manual intervention. You can
go from zero to fully operational in just minutes, while staying
compliant and avoiding mistakes. In the process, you’ll be saving
your company both time and money.
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What DevOps can
do for a business’
bottom line
The practice of DevOps was founded in speed
and efficiency. By streamlining the software
development and deployment lifecycle, you
transform what’s possible for your output.
That means shorter development times and
a more efficient process across the board.
When DevOps is done right,
you start to see drastic changes:
95% reduction in manual
tasks, thanks to automation
21% less time spent
on issues like debugging
30% more time to spend
however you need
Ultimately, this means you can shave off 70% of the time
it takes to deploy, beating out your competition to market.
You can also cut down on team size and other common
expenses: implementing DevOps can decrease redundancy
by 35% and lower IT costs by up to 30%.
But DevOps also facilitates innovation. By shortening
the software lifecycle, your team can put more of their
time and effort toward product innovation.
This means more dynamic solutions
and better technology.
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The modern,
uneven state
of apps vs.
Databases
in DevOps
Many companies are committed to
DevOps-style application development.
But the same is not true for database
automation, which is comparatively
more difficult to implement.
Even though most teams can easily
automate applications, automating
distributed databases is an undertaking.
One of the biggest reasons for this delayed adoption
is that database infrastructure management requires
a different set of skills to organize and run.
Because of schema change management,
you need to be very careful not to have
misordered or missing data. Otherwise,
you risk breaking your build. In addition,
schema changes means dropping,
changing, or recreating objects and then
reloading data, which can be both risky
and painstaking.
There’s also data management. You’re
dealing with transactional data, which is
more complex and dynamic than static
data. Meanwhile, in order to reproduce
current, real-life production scenarios,
you have to constantly test your software
with realistic data but also mask any data
that could be considered “sensitive.” This
becomes a recurring inefficiency just to
manage data against the parameters of
time and evolving compliance standards.
And when it comes to tools for
schema and data management, what’s
out there in the market right now
is limited. Furthermore, of the tools
that do exist, many are exorbitantly
expensive. So, companies likely
end up without or cobble together
procedures that ultimately may or may
not provide the sought after benefits.
This less mature application of DevOps
in database technology can be attributed
to the fact that each type of database
has its own mechanics of storing and
making changes to data. There is
no accepted standard for database
changes across all databases. This reality
becomes exponentially challenging
when a company’s technology stack
includes a variety of databases.
There’s also perception. Maintaining
knowledge of database architecture
is no small task and does not garner
the same excitement as application
development. Oftentimes, the backend
is seen as “secondary” because of its
complicated nature and the fact that it’s
not as readily “seen” as the frontend.
But the database is just as important
as user-facing applications. Without
a database backend, there is no
functional user-facing app — one
cannot exist without the other.
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The rise of
managed database
services and its
impact on agility
At its core, DevOps is about speed,
performance, and collaboration.
It’s why managed databases fit
so well into modern DevOps.
Managed databases takes away the
headache of having to manually manage your
database. Rather than painstakingly building
out a backend, a managed database service
optimizes your DevOps process through:
Speed
Administration and monitoring your own database is a
nightmare. A managed database, by comparison, is painless
and streamlined. Simplify setup and installation with
personalized templates. Your provider takes care of backend
updates and manages replication, migration, and backups.
Performance
The toolkits in enterprise-level managed databases let you
audit your own database so that you can identify problems and
the solutions to fix them. Toolkits can also help you anticipate
potential issues that may affect performance in the future.
Collaboration
A managed database eliminates the need to work with a
separate team. It gives you all the tools and functionality for
your team to be completely operational in-house.
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Accelerate
automation
and agility
MongoDB is designed to integrate
with modern DevOps practices and
accelerates automation and agility.
There are many different ways
DevOps teams deploy and manage
their MongoDB installations.
MongoDB Ops Manager
The management platform that makes it
easy to deploy, monitor, back up, and scale
MongoDB on your own infrastructure. Ops
Manager can scale up to thousands of
nodes in your private cloud while natively
integrating with Kubernetes and other
modern orchestration frameworks.
MongoDB Deployments
with Chef and Ansible
DevOps teams using configuration
management tools like Chef and Ansible
can use the community cookbooks/
playbooks to easily deploy and manage
large-scale MongoDB clusters.
MongoDB Automation
with Terraform and Images
Using Ops Manager Automation with tools
like Terraform and Packer means DevOps
teams will have an automated, reproducible
way to make immutable images of machines
to deploy and run database clusters.
MongoDB Atlas
MongoDB Atlas is a global
database as a service designed
to easily deploy fully managed
MongoDB clusters in a
cloud-native environment.
It can natively integrate with
common DevOps automation
tools and provides high
availability, security, and
compliance out of the box.
Using MongoDB Atlas gives
DevOps teams one less
automation layer to worry
about, allowing them to
focus on providing a better
developer experience.
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MongoDB Atlas to Enhance Productivity
MongoDB Atlas
core features for
rapid operations
MongoDB Atlas was made
for the DevOps environment.
It encourages and accelerates
change, fueling businesses that
want to rapidly deploy dynamic
apps to millions of users at a time.
Atlas keeps pace with this ever-changing DevOps
environment with its document data model and
dynamic schema. It’s perfect for developers who want
to get started now and make changes on the go.
Backups and replication
Backups and replication are entirely
automated by your provider. Not only
is this more reliable, but it also saves a
lot of time. A few simple configurations
are all it takes for you to set up your
backup and replication options.
Security and
compliance support
With enterprise-level security and
compliance, you’ll be able to conduct
rapid operations safely and efficiently.
End-to-end encryption means your
data is encrypted on disk and granular
database auditing and reporting
are available right out-of-the-box.
With compliance, you can effortlessly
apply a permissions hierarchy,
assigning permissions and access
points to qualified parties. You’ll also
save time with built-in compliance
requirements like GDPR. Everything
is plug and play, right from day one.
High availability
and scalability
With a managed database, you are
guaranteed high availability thanks to
a round-the-clock team monitoring
performance and output, alongside
strong disaster recovery plans. Even
if a disaster were to happen, your
company can keep running seamlessly.
There’s no need to spend time
upgrading your servers. With a
managed database, scalability is
effortless. Scale up? Scale down?
It’s as simple as pushing a button.
Monitoring and metrics
When it comes to monitoring and
metrics, managed databases help save
you time while offering unprecedented
visibility. Built-in dashboards provide
key metrics, allowing you to proactively
monitor your database and see
early signs of potential problems
before they become an issue.
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Bottom line goals

for all businesses
Business results are maximized when people
process and tools coalesce around DevOps in
philosophy and practice.
There is no singular recipe and no absolute right or wrong
implementation method. But when met with options that enable
speed with safety, embrace them as the right approach.

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