A Beginner’s Introduction To DevOps Principles

The basics to streamline and govern the entire development process, from the brains of programmers onto production servers.

Anthony Heddings

Sep 11, 2020 • 5 min read

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DevOps

Continuous Delivery

Continuous Integration

Summary

Technical writer and programmer Anthony Heddings delivers a well-detailed beginner's guide article on DevOps principles explaining the general meaning of DevOps, its phases, and how the phases are executed to achieve continuous delivery and high software quality. The cloud engineer notes that DevOps is a set of principles designed to streamline and govern the entire development process, from the brains of your programmers to your servers, and integrates developers with SysAdmins through software development phases such as monitoring, planning, building, testing, and releasing. Find out more about the basics of DevOps in the article.

Takeaways

DevOps are a set of principles designed to streamline and govern the entire development process, from the brains of your programmers to your servers.
DevOps combine software development and operations with cycles of product development phases such as monitoring, planning, building, testing, and releasing.
DevOps integrate developers and system admins to collaboratively work together for continuous delivery and high software quality.
Developers include anyone who is involved in actually building your product while SysAdmins are the people updating servers with new code, managing both your public-facing and internal server infrastructure, and all-around keeping everything up and running.