10 Major DevOps Challenges and Issues - Ideas2IT

### 1. Moving from Legacy Applications to Microservices Holding on to legacy technology could limit your company’s prospects in an already competitive marketplace. Moving to a newer microservices architecture does enable faster development and innovation. But transitioning to microservices doesn’t come without challenges, **the most significant one being the increased complexity**. The organization should have the necessary configuration management, automation foundations and continuous integration & continuous delivery (CI-CD) in place. This enables the delivery unit to cope up with the challenges created by the adoption of DevOps and the increased operational workloads that come with microservices. ### 2. Adoption of New Tools & Integrating Them To harness DevOps effectively, your teams need to face the adoption challenge of deciding on various tools for development, testing and deployment to ensure they all work in an integrated manner. The selection process for these tools could pronounce a huge challenge at times as they need to meet security requirements and must be easy to integrate with your infrastructure. And then, there is the matter of** adequately training everyone on the new set of tools** so that productivity is not compromised. ### 3. DevOps Governance It might look like DevOps is about letting go of all processes and putting live environments at risk to the uninitiated. But that’s not the case. **DevOps follows stringent governance policies** that dictate how much access to the production resources is given to each team. The SLAs clearly define the change control processes and set up for all the systems. This could be another nightmare for companies getting started on DevOps. ### 4. Managing Multiple Environments As an application’s complexity increases, it needs more separate app development, staging, test, and production environments. Managing multiple environments is complex and could quickly go out of control. It requires experienced DevOps experts to **define the series of predetermined steps to speed up deployment** by streamlining development and testing. … ### 8. Change Resistance While change is essential for growth, it could be a nightmare for many people who have been doing something in a particular manner. Implementing DevOps, therefore should not be a rushed initiative, it needs to be done with a certain degree of smoothness. This will ensure that DevOps becomes ingrained in your company’s culture. **Your company will need expert practitioners to get the ball rolling.** It could begin by using an existing small product and recreating it using DevOps practices. Such small projects could help people overcome some of the technical challenges in DevOps.