Legacy infrastructure and systems

Of course, DevOps is not just for the cloud; it can be for hybrid environments and, of course, on-premises. DevOps is arguably easier with cloud environments, but legacy infrastructure, systems, and thinking can be real blockers to DevOps.

Legacy infrastructure causes several issues when it comes to DevOps adoption since these systems are not designed for the continuous processes that come with DevOps. Releasing in iterations with legacy infrastructure is also very difficult and, in some cases, impossible. This breaks the whole DevOps ethos and starts to introduce challenges we need to overcome.

Legacy modernization

One of the ways we deal with technical debt from legacy infrastructure is to go through a modernization process. This represents a journey from traditional infrastructure to more modern services, for the most part in a public cloud provider.

Modernization has many benefits for businesses looking to scale as it helps reduce costs...