Overview of DevOps Loop

IBM® DevOps Loop is a platform designed to support and streamline the software application development lifecycle. DevOps Loop integrates key processes such as planning, coding, testing, release management, deployment, and monitoring into a seamless workflow for enhanced productivity within the DevOps ecosystem.

DevOps Loop is a cloud-based continuous integration and continuous deployment platform. It is built on modern, cloud-native technologies that enables product teams to plan, code, test, and deploy the applications. The platform provides a holistic view of the progress in the DevOps cycle. DevOps Loop is built to install on IBM Red Hat OpenShift, IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service (IKS), and Kubernetes Service (K8S).

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DevOps Loop offers a comprehensive suite of solutions to efficiently manage every stage of your DevOps pipeline – Plan, Code, Control, Test, Deploy, Release, and Measure.

With Deploy, you can define automated deployment processes that seamlessly trigger test executions, with the resulting insights readily accessible within Measure for real-time analysis.

Test Hub’s integration with Microsoft Azure DevOps enables you to configure pipelines that directly execute tests using the scalable Test Hub infrastructure, ensuring high performance and reliability.

You can use Plan for robust defect tracking, and Code for source code management, and Control for version control, streamlining collaboration and ensuring traceability across your development lifecycle.

The summary of each solution and its core functionality is as follows:

  • Plan: Provides a sophisticated low-code change management software application designed to facilitate comprehensive change tracking and issue management. It incorporates custom workflow automation, allowing users to tailor processes to their specific needs without extensive coding knowledge.

  • Code: Enables developers to write, compile, build, and debug code directly in the browser, without local setup. Code is a cloud-based IDE, which is a part of DevOps Loop.

  • Control: Provides a source control system with GitHub-compatible APIs.

  • Build: Offers the capability to build applications, manage continuous integration workflows, and store build artifacts. It uses a template-driven approach, enabling the creation of projects based on predefined templates that can be extended with additional process and workflow templates. These templates help standardize build procedures, enforce source control policies, integrate testing practices, and manage reporting workflows.

  • Test: Brings together test data, test environments, and test runs and reports into a single, web-based browser for testers and non-testers.

  • Release: Enables you to standardize and automate processes in your release lifecycle. With Release, you can move releases through your development cycle's phases, from preproduction to production. You can create and implement a predictable schedule of releases for your software applications. If you use team-based planning software, you can integrate related changes to your release plan to make your plan comprehensive and clear. You can openly share your release plan and status with all stakeholders so that they know the schedule and the key milestones and can identify issues that might delay releases.

  • Deploy: Standardizes and simplifies the process of deploying software components to each environment in your development cycle.

    Deploy helps you meet the challenge of deploying software throughout your enterprise by providing tools that improve both deployment speed and reliability. The release automation tools in Deploy provide complete visibility into n-tiered deployments. You can use the tools to model processes that orchestrate complex deployments across every environment and approval gate.

  • Measure: Enables you to visualize and measure your DevOps toolchain and data and can better determine the creation of value as work proceeds from idea to customer. Measure provides data that helps teams to identify value creation, bottlenecks, and team issues. Measure consolidates testing and security metrics across your organization. Improves governance across your tools, throughout your organization.

Role-based access and security

Security is a key concern for the clients and therefore, DevOps Loop brings a comprehensive, role-based access control scheme to the platform with the admin assigning key permissions (by using roles) for specific members.