Do you know about DevOps? It can be defined as a set of cultural philosophies, practices, and tools that combines software development and IT operations. DevOps will improve the ability of organizations to deliver applications and services quickly, and enable them to better serve their customers and compete more effectively in the market. DevOps will focus on team empowerment, cross-team communication and collaboration, and technology automation.

DevOps enables the communication between developers and the operations team. In traditional software development models, developers will write code and the operations team will deploy the software at the customer system and support the code. Between these departments, no effective communication can be achieved in the traditional approach. The aim of DevOps is to reduce the systems development life cycle and offering continuous delivery with high software quality.

Next, we can discuss the DevOps lifecycle, which is an infinite loop. The lifecycle contains 6 phases that represent processes, capabilities, and tools needed for development and operations. DevOps is similar to the Agile software development methodology. The lifecycle stages are plan, build, continuous integration and delivery, monitor and alert, operate, and continuous feedback. Each of these stages will relies on the other and the phases are not role-specific.

DevOps will provide different benefits like speed, improved collaboration, rapid deployment, security, better quality and reliability. Other features are:

• The automated tools integrated into the continuous delivery stage will build, test, and deliver software easily.
• The collaboration between developers and the operations team will save time related to work handoffs and creating code.
• Improving the mean time to recovery

DevOps is practised among different roles in the organization that includes development, IT, operations, security, and support.