What is the use of DevOps?
What is the use of DevOps?
DevOps is a set of practices which combines the software development (Dev) and the information-technology operations (Ops), that aims to shorten the systems development life cycle and provide continuous delivery with high software quality.
DevOps (Development and Operations) is an enterprise software development phrase used to mean a type of agile relationship between development and IT operations. The main aim of DevOps is to change and improve the relationship by advocating better communication and collaboration between the business units.
DevOps is the offspring of the agile software development, born for the need to increased software velocity and throughput the agile methods have achieved. The advancements in agile culture and methods exposed the need for a more holistic approach to the end-to-end software delivery lifecycle.
DevOps is the combination of the cultural philosophies, practices and tools which improves an organization’s ability to deliver applications and services at high velocity. It also improves the ability of evolving and improving products at a faster pace than the organizations which are using the traditional software development and infrastructure management processes.
DevOps is a change in IT culture, focusing on rapid IT service delivery through the adoption of agile, lean practices in the context of a system-oriented approach.
DevOps emphasizes the people and the culture to improve collaboration between operations and development teams. It’s implementations utilize technology, especially automation tools that can leverage an increasingly programmable and dynamic infrastructure from a life cycle perspective.
As DevOps is intended to be a cross-functional mode of working, the users who practice the methodology use different sets of tools known as “toolchains” rather than a single one. These toolchains are expected to classified into one or more categories, reflective of key aspects of the development and delivery process.
The toolchains categories such as Coding, Building, Testing, Packaging, Releasing, Configuring and Monitoring are used. Some categories are more essential in a DevOps toolchain than others. Especially continuous integration and infrastructure as code are most essential.
The goal of DevOps is to improve collaboration between all the stakeholders from planning through delivery and automation of the delivery process to
- Improve deployment frequency
- Lower failure rate of new releases
- Achieve faster time to market
- Shorten lead time between fixes
- Improve mean time to recovery
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