Introduction to DevOps

• DevOps is a culture and practice that is used to help organizations deliver software more quickly. It can be defined as the cultural change in an organization that has traditionally been divided into two separate groups- developers and operators.
• DevOps are used to help organizations deliver software more quickly by shortening the time between when code is written and when it is released. The goal of DevOps is to let developers, operations, testing, security, quality assurance engineers work together in order to eliminate the silos that have traditionally existed in many organizations.

• DevOps is a software development methodology that focuses on improved communication and collaboration between software developers and other IT professionals. It aims at unifying the different stages of the software development process, including planning, testing, release and operations.
• The implementation of DevOps in a company should be done with an understanding for the organization’s needs and goals. The implementation should also be done with an understanding for the company’s culture as well as its size.

• DevOps is a term that has been around for a few years but its meaning has changed overtime. It was first coined by Patrick Debois in 2009 and the term stands for the merging of development and operations.
• The concept of DevOps is to bring together both teams, to work together more closely so they can collaborate on projects more efficiently.
• In recent years, there have been many trends in DevOps. One trend is the shift from traditional ops to what is now known as “DevOps” or “Agile Ops”. This shift happened as a result of the need for organizations to become more agile, which means being able to be quicker and more flexible when they are developing new products.

DevOps is a software development process that aims to shorten the time between writing code and releasing the product:

• The challenge in DevOps is in how to find a balance between speed and quality.
• There are many ways to do it, but one of the most popular ways is through automation.
• This means that we can automate tasks such as unit testing, security testing, deployment, etc.