DevOps is the combination of cultural philosophies, practices, and tools that increases an organization’s ability to deliver applications and services at high velocity. It removes the organization’s traditional software development and management system by evolving and improving products at a faster pace. This speed enables organizations to serve their customers in a better way and compete with others more effectively in the market.
Why DevOps matters?
Software and the Internet have transformed the world and its industries, from shopping to entertainment to banking.Companies interact with their customers through software. In today’s world, companies must transform how they build and deliver software to meet the high demands.
DevOps Approach is based on:
–. Continuous Integration: It is a software development which involves continuous integration code into the central repository
–. Continuous delivery: In this process of software development code changes are automatically built, tested, and prepared for a release to production.
–. Microservices: It is a design approach to build a single application as a set of small services.
–. Infrastructure as code: In this practice infrastructure is provisioned and managed by using code and software development techniques such as version control and continuous integration.
–. Communication and collaboration: it is one of the key approaches of DevOps.
Benefits of DevOps
–. Speed: Moving at high speed will help to adapt to customer query, understand the changing market better, and grow more efficiently with productive results.
–. Rapid Delivery: Frequent release of new features and bug fixing will make the customer respond in a positive way which will help in innovation of the product.
–. Reliability: Delivering quality updates will ensure positive reviews from end users keeping the reliability factor intact.
–. Security: Automated compliance policies, configuration management technique will preserve security.
–. Scale: Automation and consistency help you manage complex or changing systems efficiently and with reduced risk.
–. Improved collaboration: Combine workflows of developers and operations team reduces inefficiencies and saves time.