Understanding DevOps

Himavarsha Madala
2 min readNov 9, 2023

Small intro about DevOps

DevOps is a methodology which is used in software development and IT industry. DevOps integrates and operates the work of software development (Dev), and IT operations means improving and shortening the system lifecycle.

Silos is a communication bridge between development team and operations team. As developers and operations teams have two different mindsets, it is difficult for them to communicate in an open information sharing system, workflow is delayed and misinformation increases.

To improve the workflow in DevOps we need to maintain a direct team towards common organizational goals, design shared metrics, organize regular meetings.

DevOps Features:

  • Easily Scalable
  • Provides Collaborations
  • Enables Automation
  • Faster Delivery
  • Reduced IT costs
  • Continuous, Build, Test, Integrate, Deploy
  • Ops Alignment
  • Improves Companies Agility
  • Better Response Time
  • Increase Customer Satisfaction

Developer — Continuously integrates the development of the code, fast testing, speed feedback mechanism and developer focus on current code.

Operations — Container management, configuration management, continuous monitoring.

DevOps Lifecyle

  • Continuous development
  • Continuous integration
  • Continuous testing
  • Continuous Monitoring
  • Containerization

Tools that will help you learn DevOps: Linux, Ansible, Jenkins, Docker, Terraform, Nagios, GIT, Maven, ELK Stack, AWS, Kubernetes.

Learning these help you to deploy the code and automate as per use of the company. Most of the top companies use DevOps to continuous development or upgrades of the business. Few Companies are Amazon, Netflix, Adobe, GitLab etc.

Learn more about DevOps:

DevOps: The Ultimate Way to Break Down Silos — DevOps.com

What is DevOps? — Azure DevOps | Microsoft Learn

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