DevOps, Cloud, and Containers

The trios Cloud (more specifically, Containers), Microservices and DevOps, are targeting a set of common objectives--speed of delivery, business value, and cost benefits. All three can stay evolved independently, but they complement each other to achieve the desired common goals. Organizations embarking on any of these naturally tend to consider the others as they are closely linked together:

Many organizations start their journey with DevOps as an organizational practice to achieve high velocity release cycles, but eventually move to microservices architecture and cloud. However, it is not mandatory to have microservices and Cloud to support DevOps. However, automating release cycles of large monolithic applications does not make much sense, and, in many cases, it would be impossible to achieve. In such scenarios, microservices architecture and Cloud will be handy when implementing DevOps.

If we flip the coin, Cloud does not need a microservices architecture to achieve its benefits. However, to effectively implement microservices, both Cloud and DevOps are essential.

In summary, if the objective of an organization is to achieve speed of delivery and quality in a cost-effective way, the trio together can bring tremendous success.