What is DevOps?

DevOps is formed by the combination of two words, development and operations. It aims to enhance the communication, collaboration and align the work of the development and operations teams.

This is done by breaking down the barriers between the two, to work in identical development and production environments. The result is faster delivery and higher quality of software product which is delivered in iteratively.

DevOps Activities

DevOps is derived from Agile. Needless to say, the principles and practices of Agile are also inherited.

The adaptation to changing requirements resonates within DevOps which is one of the pillars of the Agile Manifesto. Utilizing Agile activities like Scrum, XP, and Kanban especially with quality assurance and operations teams.

Agile practices like Agile Planning, Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery and Maintaining a backlog are vital for DevOps.
Nevertheless, these practices are only the guidelines, nothing can beat your development and integration team members if they also have hands-on skills and experience with actual tools and projects.

All the practices done in DevOps are automated with tools. This use of technology is cardinal for the fast delivery and synergetic work.

Start with the tools, that suit with the needs of your development, staging and production environment. To make rapid changes and deliver the release repeatedly, automated configuration management could be the first step towards achieving your organizational DevOps goal.

The use of cloud computing ensures continuous integration and delivery. The automation of infrastructure can be achieved when systems are created and deployed as code.

Yodiz is an agile project management tool that allows third-party integration with tools like Github, Jira, Jenkins, Assembla, BitBucket and so on. These help articles will further guide you on how to get started with them.

These tools help in tracking and recording progress. It also helps to optimize and monitor progress in real time.

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Importance of DevOps

With a brief understanding of what DevOps does, understanding its importance to software industry should be clear.

It integrates the work and efforts of two different departments. The developers are not taking over the operations. Rather DevOps harmonizes the business to work with the developers’ pace. Both the developers and operations have shared goals. It connects and collaborates with the enterprise towards a common vision. This increases the visibility towards attaining the objectives.

This also results in delivering the product frequently with fewer flaws. Thus satisfies a greater number of customers.

Conclusion

DevOps promotes a culture of shared responsibility, enhanced communication, transparency, flexibility and faster feedback. This shared vision is the foundation of DevOps. It can be regarded as a culture, a shift in mindset or a philosophy. But it is nothing without its practices.

There is no one way to apply DevOps. In fact, just like any Agile methodology, you have to apply all the practices. One of the good practices is to try to evaluate and update your tools set when technologies change in your project/s.

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