Meeting the trio – microservices, DevOps, and cloud
The trio—cloud, microservices, and DevOps—targets a set of common objectives: speed of delivery, business value, and cost benefit. All three can stay and evolve independently, but they complement each other to achieve the desired common goals. Organizations embarking on any of these naturally tend to consider the other two 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 the microservices architecture and cloud. It is not mandatory to have microservices and cloud support DevOps. However, automating the release cycles of large monolithic applications does not make much sense, and in many cases, it would be impossible to achieve. In such scenarios, the microservices architecture and cloud will be handy when implementing DevOps.
If we flip a coin, cloud does not need a microservices architecture...
