DevOps and its Basics

DevOps typically involves the process of development and operations.

The word?DevOps?is coined from the words “development” and “operations”. Development simply means an event constituting a new stage in a changing situation, while operations mean an active process; a discharge of a function.

DevOps is simply merging the “development” and “operations” teams in working through the delivery pipeline to ensure quality and high-end applications and services.

According to?Amazon Web Services (AWS),?DevOps?is the combination of cultural philosophies, practices, and tools that increases an organization’s ability to deliver applications and services at high velocity: evolving and improving products at a faster pace than organizations using traditional software development and infrastructure management processes. This speed enables organizations to better serve their customers and compete more effectively in the market.

DevOps?helps build and deliver products efficiently and effectively using DevOps practices. Let’s see it as the connection between founders and the customers, after building a product one needs to scale it up to perfection owing to feedback and responses. It helps the organization improve products, services, and applications at a competitive pace.

Benefits of DevOps

• Ensuring that customers have the best experience. The DevOps model gives room for quicker and more efficient teamwork/partnership between the development and operations team to bring about an upheaval for clients and achieve business growth and results.
• It helps to bring about timely delivery of products, services, and applications, it eliminates the gap created by the estimated time of delivery for products by bringing teams working on a project together in an exclusive environment thereby achieving fast-paced innovation and delivery.
• Ensuring that users have an amazing encounter with the organization’s products and services. DevOps helps in simplifying development and operations, making sure that each step of innovation is safe, maintains quality, and is also functional.
• Scale: Managing and adjusting the operations as required with minimal threat to delivery.
• Improved collaboration: It helps to promote and ensure teamwork, and eliminates handover time.
• Security: It helps to maintain control and minimizes security risks and threats while keeping track of operations and development.

DevOps is a coordinated system of implementation, an instrument used to fit and consolidate the operation between the IT and software development teams to enforce stress-free cooperation and collaboration between teams. It helps in easing the tension that erupts between the development and operations stage, it simplifies the process from development to operation by enabling side-by-side collaboration while working through the delivery pipelines, from building down to deployment and maintenance by providing a consolidated avenue where building, testing, release and monitoring can achieved without a hassle.

Cloud and DevOps

Cloud and DevOps are two completely different concepts in Information Technology.

The Cloud is a technology that provides infrastructure (and software) with full flexibility. For example, today you need a windows server with 4GB RAM and 1TB disk size, you order it at any cloud platform (say, Amazon Web Services) and it is ready for you in minutes. Again, you found out that this configuration is too little for you, you can resize the same machine to a higher configuration within minutes.

DevOps is a practice, where you combine the Dev and Ops of a particular software development team to work together. In DevOps, we integrate various tools, based on best practices, to provide an automated system to produce the best quality product without manual intervention.

DevOps and Cloud is the trending combination in today’s market, as DevOps provide better solutions, while the Cloud provides feasible infrastructure.

-Ayush Aarav, DevOps Engineer.

Conclusion

DevOps and Cloud are like a team that works together to ensure a smooth operation across the delivery pipeline for quality service and solutions to businesses.

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