DevOps

Rapid Application Development, Testing, and Management

Astir Analytics utilizes DevOps methodologies and tools in the development of custom applications. As the latest, greatest in development, testing, deployment, and management processes, DevOps offers incredible flexibility, speed, and scalability.

DevOps is a natural evolution of “agile systems administration” or “agile operations,” as it continues the movement away from traditional development methodologies. DevOps allows for the breaking down of walls between the various teams of a development project, fostering greater communications for the accommodation of quicker changes and rapid deployment. The methodology and tools bridge the gaps that normally exist between business analysts, developer, and quality assurance software testers, and when used correctly offers unparalleled flexibility and scalability.

Astir Analytics has always utilized agile methodologies in order to keep our customers close to the development processes. This allows customers to provide continual input, and allows Astir to implement changes quickly with minimal project impact. The utilization of DevOps tools have allowed Astir to further improve our development processes, as it enables us to rapidly prototype, smoothly implement, and efficiently manage projects. Our expert IT professionals have experience in the most cutting-edge DevOps technologies, offering customers quicker turn around times with incremental delivery of highly scalable products.

Whether your IT project is for a large scale, enterprise level platform, or a small business intelligence application, we have the expertise in the DevOps technologies you need.
Astir Analytics has extensive experience with the following DevOps toolsets:
  • Agile Development Methodologies – SCRUM, Kanban, SAFe, Lean Development, Extreme Programming (XP)
  • Collaboration, Project Management, and Ticketing – Slack, HipChat, JIRA, ServiceNow, Basecamp
  • Configuration Management – Puppet, Chef, Ansible, Cfengine, HashiCorp Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, SaltStack
  • Containerization – Docker, RKT, LXC
  • Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery Automation – VersionOne Continuum for DevOps, Bamboo, Jenkins
  • Infrastructure Monitoring – Nagios, Incinga, Zabbix
  • Lifecycle Management – VersionOne Enterprise Agile Platform
  • Logging – PaperTrail, Logstash, Loggly, Logentries, Splunk, SumoLogic
  • Release/Build Server Tools – Jenkis, Travis, TeamCity, SonarQube, Artifactory, Ant, Maven
  • Orchestration – Zookeeper, Noah, Apache Mesos, Kubernetes, Docker Swarm, AWS Elastic Container Service
  • Security – Snorby Threat Stack, Snort, Veracode, Sqreen, Sonatype, Evident.io
  • Source Code Repository – Git, Subversion, Cloudforce, Bitbucket, TFS, SVN
  • Test Automation – Selenium, Water
  • Virtualization Platforms – Vmware, KVM, Zen, VirtualBox, Vagrant, QEMU
Using Astir IT DevOps services will bring your IT project to market faster and more reliably than compared with traditional development organizations.