With the rise of the platform engineering concept, the independent DevOps tool chain used by enterprises is gradually evolving to a more advanced and convenient DevOps platform. Gartner released its first DevOps Platform Magic Quadrant report (Gartner Magic Quadrant for DevOps Platforms). In this closely watched report, Chinese cloud-native vendor Lingqueyun received an "Honorable Mention" and became the only Chinese vendor to appear in the report.
DevOps platforms provide the complete toolchain capabilities required by organizations of all types. Gartner recommends: "Software engineering leaders should begin evaluating DevOps platforms as a means to accelerate the delivery of customer value." In addition, the report also states: "In order to meet the growing needs of customers and conduct a more in-depth assessment of the DevOps market, Our first-ever Magic Quadrant for DevOps Platforms report replaces the Market Guide for Value Stream Delivery Platforms report published in 2021 and 2022."
In addition to public cloud vendors and traditional DevOps vendors, the world's leading cloud-native vendors also emerged in the report, which we believe indicates that cloud-native has become the core technology for building the next-generation DevOps value chain platform.
DevOps Platform: The Best Path to DevOps Landing
According to Gartner's definition, "DevOps platform refers to a platform that can provide fully integrated capabilities and achieve continuous software delivery through agile and DevOps practices. Platform capabilities cover all aspects of software lifecycle management (SDLC), including product planning, version control , continuous integration, test automation, continuous deployment, release orchestration, security and compliance policy automation, monitoring and observability, etc. By using the DevOps platform, you can strengthen team collaboration, improve the security of software development, and achieve the reliability of software delivery measure.
A DevOps platform simplifies the components needed to create, maintain and manage modern software application delivery. Pre-built component integration reduces cognitive load for users and improves visibility, auditability, and traceability of the software development value stream. This end-to-end approach encourages systems thinking and accelerates feedback loops.
By using a DevOps platform, conflicts caused by complex tool chains, manual handover processes, and lack of consistent visibility throughout the software life cycle can be minimized, and product teams can quickly deliver applications while ensuring quality. The wide application of the DevOps platform enables development, testing, infrastructure operation and maintenance and security teams to realize technology integration and deliver customer value faster. "
DevOps platforms are widely used in scenarios such as agile development, mobile application development, edge computing, cloud native application development, and platform engineering. Gartner predicts, "By 2027, 75% of enterprises will shift from Multiple Point Solutions (Multiple Point Solutions) to DevOps platforms to simplify application delivery, compared to only 25% in 2023."
Why was Lingqueyun mentioned in honor?
Lingqueyun ACP DevOps provides an open DevOps toolchain integration and orchestration platform based on Kubernetes. It follows the concept of platform engineering (Platform Engineering), can integrate any DevOps tools that developers like and are familiar with, and combine with ACP's multi-cloud container management platform to release and run applications in various operating environments. ACP DevOps can make full use of the openness, flexibility and automatic operation and maintenance capabilities of the ACP platform to achieve higher service quality, lower development and operation costs, and faster delivery speed.
We believe that the selection of cloud-native platform vendors such as Lingqueyun indicates that the application-centric cloud-native DevOps platform will become the primary choice for more and more companies to improve R&D efficiency and optimize delivery quality.
The ACP DevOps platform has the following core advantages:
● Open toolchain integration and orchestration
Unlike many platforms, Lingqueyun does not redevelop any DevOps tools, but flexibly integrates various excellent open source and commercial DevOps tools, compatible with stock and future tool selection, covering application planning, requirements, design, development, and testing , delivery, operation and maintenance of the complete life cycle, connect the tools of each link of DevOps in series to form a complete and comprehensive open tool chain. Enterprises can easily build, deploy and manage cloud-native applications on the platform.
● Tailor-made DevOps best practices for users
Using the pipeline capabilities of the ACP DevOps platform, the enterprise platform team can solidify its own best practices and processes, and provide the application team with convenient and enterprise-compliant platform support. ACP DevOps also has dozens of built-in pipeline templates to meet different usage scenarios of users. At the same time, Lingqueyun's DevOps consulting and service capabilities can help companies sort out their own DevOps processes and create best practices for the entire process of DevOps.
● Multi-environment and multi-cloud support, avoiding cloud vendor lock-in
Lingqueyun ACP DevOps platform, together with the ACP container management platform, provides cross-cloud and multi-cluster management capabilities, and can fully manage various private environments, K8s clusters and infrastructure on public clouds, and can well solve customer problems. Various problems faced when using hybrid cloud and multi-cloud, providing unified DevOps tools and processes for hybrid cloud and multi-cloud environments.
● Perfectly embodies the design concept of Platform Engineering
ACP DevOps product design conforms to the design concept of platform engineering, can provide application teams with self-service development portals, assist enterprise platform teams to solidify best practices in the form of platforms, and reduce the application team’s impact on the bottom layer while ensuring compliance with enterprise process specifications Learning costs of infrastructure and tools, focusing on business innovation.
Up to now, the ACP platform has served 500+ leading enterprise customers around the world, covering banking, securities, insurance, operators, industry, energy and other industries.
In the future, Lingqueyun will continue to build ACP into a more available, high-performance, and highly reliable enterprise-level cloud-native platform to help enterprise customers successfully achieve digital transformation.
来源 : Gartner®, Magic Quadrant™ for DevOps Platforms, Manjunath Bhat et al., 5 June 2023
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