Improving DevOps Collaboration [Challenges & Best Practices]

DevOps collaboration is crucial for streamlining workflows and enhancing efficiency in software development projects. By working together with diverse skills and perspectives, teams can achieve goals such as IaC changes, continuous integration, monitoring, governance, application deployment, performance improvement, and reliability. However, challenges like pull request issues, RBAC problems, lack of communication, absence of agile methodologies, inappropriate tooling, and poor governance can hinder effective collaboration. To overcome these obstacles, teams should encourage communication, embrace agile principles, use proper tools for workflows, implement governance mechanisms, and standardize environments. Spacelift is a DevOps infrastructure automation tool that can help improve collaboration by providing features like policies, approval processes, notifications, push actions, private workers, cloud integrations, RBAC via spaces and user management, SSO support, self-service infrastructure for developers, and resource views to track infrastructure drift.