Congratulations, you just landed your dream job of being a DevOps developer! But it’s not how you imagined it. You’re surprised by how much operations (ops) you’re doing instead of the development (dev) innovation you signed up to do, especially in the context of data management. So, how can Oracle help you? With Oracle Autonomous Database you can elevate yourself to “DevOps 2.0”, where you can focus on the Dev innovation, and let Oracle focus on the Ops.

The ops in DevOps

First, let’s talk about DevOps. DevOps is a set of principles and practices emphasizes collaboration between software development and IT operations to enable faster and more reliable software delivery. However, when operations aren’t properly integrated into the DevOps process, it can slow down development and delivery.

Ops can slow down DevOps for several reasons, like manual processing. Tasks, such as provisioning servers, configure infrastructure, and other manual tasks, take a lot of human effort and can be prone to error. Then you can have bottlenecks because sometimes Ops teams are guarding those resources and dictating when resources are available. But how Oracle can help you overcome these challenges and more.

DevOps 2.0 with Autonomous Database

From our previous blog, you know that the converged data platform is the best way to keep down complex data integrations, and keep you developing the way you want to. With Autonomous Database, you can reduce monotonous manual administrative tasks like patching, backups, recovery, and performance tuning because they’re done automatically. So, you get more time to focus on your application development and deployment rather than the database administration that you were doing before. So no more unnecessary operational overhead for you!

Autonomous Database provides built-in high availability and automatic fault detection and recovery mechanisms, reducing downtime and impact on your applications. Plus, its scalability and elasticity features give you flexibility to scale up and down to fit the needs of your application, including autoscaling up to three times. With Autonomous Database, you can quickly provision and deploy these databases, allowing you to get your environment fast, so no more waiting for someone to do it for you.

It also has built-in security features like automatic encryption, activity monitoring, and compliance frameworks that help meet industry-specific regulations and security standards. Now, you can ensure that your applications have a secure database environment without doing all that extensive security configuration.

All these features together help your development, testing, and deployment cycles run more efficiently, while reducing development bottlenecks. To learn more about why Autonomous Database is great for developers, check out our section on the Developer Resource Center!

Leave the ops monotony behind

Autonomous Database allows you to automate routine database management tasks; improve performance, availability, and scalability; and address your security and compliance requirements, all while streamlining the provisioning and deployment processes. This empowers you to have faster, more efficient, and more consistent and reliable application development and deployment.

You get the choice of how you want to deploy your Autonomous Database. In OCI, you have the option of Serverless or Dedicated. Autonomous Database Serverless is awesome for agile, developer-led or line of business-led projects. Anybody can deploy an Oracle Autonomous Database by providing how much database compute, storage, which region to deploy it in (and passwords of course!).

If your company already uses Exadata Database on Exadata Cloud Infrastructure, you can get everything we just talked about on the same infrastructure you already own with Autonomous Database Dedicated. With the newest launch of multiple VM on Dedicated Exadata Infrastructure, you can have both Exadata Cloud Database Dedicated and Autonomous Database Dedicated VMs on the same infrastructure. You can get all the benefits of running applications on an Autonomous Database without having to buy another infrastructure.

Get hands on experience with Autonomous Database

You can try Autonomous Database for yourself firsthand. These LiveLabs guide you, as a developer, on how to use various Autonomous Database features and address things like provisioning, application development, and much more. The Oracle Linux Cloud Developer image provides the latest and greatest development tools, languages, and OCI software developer kits (SDKs) to rapidly deploy a comprehensive development environment. You can use command line, graphical user interface (GUI) tools, or whatever tools you want to write, debug, and run code to develop your applications, and these LiveLabs allow you to use the same languages that you’re already used to, like Java, Python, .NET and more.

We have dozens of LiveLabs to try out Autonomous Database as a developer, including the following examples to get you started:

Leave the ops monotony behind by using Autonomous Database to elevate you to DevOps 2.0. You don’t want any more headaches, only joy from developing the cool things you’ve always dreamed of. Regardless of where you are in your developer journey, try out Autonomous Database to see first-hand how it can change your life!