Compound of development (Dev) and operations (Ops)
Devops
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What Devops is
A compound of development (Dev) and operations (Ops), DevOps is the union of people, process, and technology to continually provide value to customers.
DevOps enables formerly siloed roles—development, IT operations, quality engineering, and security—to coordinate and collaborate to produce better, more reliable products. By adopting a DevOps culture along with DevOps practices and tools, teams gain the ability to better respond to customer needs, increase confidence in the applications they build, and achieve business goals faster.
Why we use it?
Speed. DevOps practices let you move at the velocity you need to innovate faster, adapt to changing markets better, and become more efficient at driving business results.
Rapid delivery. When you increase the pace of releases, you can improve your product faster and build competitive advantage.
Reliability. DevOps practices like continuous integration and continuous delivery can ensure the quality of application updates and infrastructure changes so you can reliably deliver at a more rapid pace while maintaining an optimum experience for end users.
Improved collaboration. Under a DevOps model, developers and operations teams collaborate closely, share responsibilities, and combine their workflows. This reduces inefficiencies and saves time.
- Security. You can adopt a DevOps model without sacrificing security by using automated, integrated security testing tools.
What makes using it important?
Several key practices can help organizations innovate faster through automating and streamlining the software development management process. One fundamental DevOps practice is to perform very frequent but small updates. These updates are usually more incremental than the updates performed under traditional release practices. Organizations using a DevOps model deploy updates much more often than organizations using traditional software development practices.
Communication and collaboration are keystones of the set of DevOps practices. Automation of the software delivery process establishes collaboration by physically bringing together the workflows and responsibilities of development and operations. Communication across developers, operations, and even other teams, such as marketing and sales, allows all parts of the organization to align more closely on goals and projects.
DevOps practices such as continuous integration and continuous delivery let DevOps teams deliver rapidly, safely, and reliably. Monitoring and logging help DevOps teams track the performance of applications so they can react quickly to problems.
DevOps methodologies
DevOps is the direct descendant of agile software development, born from the need to keep up with increased software development velocity and throughput agile methods. Advancements in agile development highlighted the need for a more holistic approach to the software delivery life cycle, resulting in DevOps.
“Agile development” is an umbrella term for several iterative software development methodologies, many of which have carried over to DevOps:
Scrum—a framework in which people can address complex adaptive problems while delivering products of the highest possible value.
Kanban—a method for managing the creation of products with an emphasis on continual delivery while not overburdening the development team. Like Scrum, Kanban is a process designed to help teams work together more effectively.
Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)—a set of organization and workflow patterns intended to guide enterprises in scaling lean and agile practices. SAFe is one of a growing number of frameworks that seek to address the problems encountered when scaling beyond a single team.
Lean development—a translation of lean manufacturing principles and practices to the software development domain. Lean offers a conceptual framework, values, and principles, as well as best practices derived from experience, that support agile organizations.
Extreme programming (XP)—a software development methodology intended to improve software quality and responsiveness to changing customer requirements. XP advocates frequent releases in short development cycles, intended to improve productivity and introduce checkpoints at which new customer requirements can be adopted. Other elements of extreme programming include programming in pairs or doing extensive code review, unit testing of all code, not programming of features until they are needed, a flat management structure, code simplicity and clarity, expecting changes in the customer’s requirements as time passes and the problem is better understood, and frequent communication with the customer.
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