DevOps

DevOps is a set of processes, methods and systems for communication, collaboration and integration between departments for Development (Applications/Software Engineering), Technology Operations and Quality Assurance (QA).

It relates to the emerging understanding of the interdependence of Development and Operations in meeting a business' goal to producing timely software products and services .

DevOps helps to enable Business Agility & IT Alignment by aligning Development and Operations roles and processes in the context of shared business objectives. Both development and operations team need to understand that they are part of a unified business process. DevOps thinking ensures that individual decisions and actions strive to support and improve that unified business process, regardless of organizational structure by avoiding conflict and inefficiency between Development and Operations activity in IT .

Companies with very frequent releases may require a DevOps awareness or orientation but DevOps is not just about developers collaborating with Operations team on deployment and releases. It's about both teams understanding each others responsibilities after code is deployed to production, and collaborating along the areas of their expertise in a way that's constructive. The whole point of DevOps is to enable your business to react to market forces as quickly, efficiently, and reliably as possible

DevOps is not a technology problem.Technology plays a key part in enabling solutions to DevOps problems. However, DevOps itself is fundamentally a business problem.The most fundamental business process in any company is getting an idea from inception to where it is making you money.

The adoption of DevOps is being driven by factors such as :

• Use of agile and other development processes and methodologies .
• Demand for an increased rate of production releases from application and business unit stakeholders
• Increased usage of data center automation and configuration management tools