What is DevOps?

What it is, its value, and how DevOps practices and tools help you move your apps through the entire software delivery pipeline from ideation through production.

Andrea Crawford

Sep 09, 2019 • 6 min read

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DevOps

Continuous Delivery

Continuous Deployment

Quality-Driven development

Pipeline Management

Summary

Watch this interesting clip about DevOps by Andrea Crawford from IBM. She well-explains what DevOps is, its benefits, and its use cases in an organization stating that DevOps brings the IT development and Operations group together and one of its key benefits is to increase the velocity of how the organization releases products and improve the quality of the product. View the clip for more information on the DevOps benefits and use cases.

Takeaways

DevOps brings together two traditionally contentious groups within IT organizations. The development group is measured on the number of changes/features implemented and defects fixed while the IT operations group is measured on the system stability and availability.
DevOps increase the velocity of how the organization releases products and also improves the quality of the product.
DevOps is generally about people, processes, and tools for the benefit of business agility.