The digital transformation of operators has entered the second half. Players who choose to transition from traditional communication service providers (CSPS) to smart pipeline and digital service providers (DSPS) have started to fully practice. From mentality, people, organization, business, business model, operation model, production mode, change has become a constant theme. In order to support the digital transformation, the focus of operators' IT systems needs to be changed from network construction to customer experience. At the same time, it has become an industry consensus to have the ability of rapid innovation, agility and ecological operation.
In July 2018, the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (hereinafter referred to as the "China Academy of Information and Communications Technology") released the "White Paper on Digital Transformation of Telecommunications Industry (2018) -- Strategic Choices under the Softening of Network". The white paper suggests that operators should establish a DevOps mechanism to break the traditional process and form an interactive mode of design and operation.
Under the guidance of DevOps, some operators have initiated radical changes to the traditional waterfall development model. Operators' IT staff are active in developer communities such as CSDN, absorbing DevOps concepts and development methods. DevOps keywords such as agile, fast iteration and gray release are gradually integrated into the IT system construction of operators. However, we can see that in the actual implementation of DevOps, operators lack effective tool support, especially the lack of DevOps support tools that can be applied to carrier-grade IT system development.
At the recent Cloud Conference, Hulwhale Technology demonstrated its DevOps performance platform to carrier customers around the world. Company related product person introduced, this product was originally used for "self redemption", is the whale technology in the development of the next generation of cloud, micro service, intelligent telecom support system, in order to achieve rapid iteration of the version, business quickly online and designed DevOps intelligent support tools. "In our conversations with carrier customers, we found that carriers' IT departments were in great need of a tool to help them implement the DevOps methodology," he said. So we introduced this tool to our carrier customers in the hope that this platform will be 'universal'."
House Whale Technology DevOps Performance platform is a one-stop collaborative cloud service for enterprise R&D. Focusing on improving R&D efficiency, it can support R&D to conduct code development, management, compilation and release in a more efficient way. The platform covers components and functionality for project management, code hosting, code review, automated build, test management, quality center, automated deployment, and release delivery.
Project management
Support project requirements and defect tracking, support custom process and rich notification mechanism, support version planning management, support requirements correlation, support parent-child correlation control, support controlled R&D process. Through project management, the end-to-end requirement R&D process can be visualized.
Code check
Supports code check capabilities such as cyclomatic complexity, code style, static vulnerability check, and duplicate code. Supports incremental check, user-defined alarm thresholds, historical trend analysis, and trend alarm analysis. Automated code check and aggregation analysis of check data improve R&D quality and foster R&D discipline.
Automatic build
It supports cloud construction services, which can complete code construction with one click, container image packaging, maven library push, etc. It supports real-time notification of construction results such as email and nail.
Test management
Support test case management, including test case generation, test case storage and automated execution. By abstracting test case components, new test cases can be generated quickly through combination, reducing the cost of writing and maintaining test cases in automated tests. Support for automated execution, embedded throughout the continuous delivery process, ensuring release quality.
Center of mass
The platform will automatically collect data from code inspection, code construction, code testing and other processes, and accumulate it into a centralized big data platform. Through the analysis of these big data, the quality report, test coverage and module defect analysis of each product are generated to support accurate testing.
Automatic deployment
Supports one-click version deployment and one-click upgrade, end-to-end automation of continuous delivery processes, updates of incremental SQL scripts and incremental configuration files for data models, automated smoke testing, and one-click rollback after upgrade failures.
Release delivery
Supports one-click publishing, application orchestration, and application publishing in complex solution scenarios. Support syntax review and coding of SQL scripts, and generate and publish configuration items of incremental configuration files.
SDK tool
Provide supporting SDK tools, can provide unified technical framework services, encapsulate commonly used API interface, can realize quick secondary development. Provides a unified code tool to support local code inspection.
DevOps efficiency platform has accumulated nearly 20 years of software R&D experience of Whale Technology in the telecom industry. It has passed the test of R&D support for many complex industry software applications, and supports the agile, efficient and intelligent R&D process. In the future, Whale Technology will continue to explore and optimize DevOps practices in the telecom field together with operators, and jointly establish industry standards and excellent practices.
