DevOps

DevOps (hereinafter, the development and operations) is a software engineering practice that aims at unifying software development (Dev) and software operation (Ops). The main characteristic of the DevOps movement is to strongly advocate automation and monitoring at all steps of software construction, from integration, testing, releasing to deployment and infrastructure management. DevOps aims at shorter development cycles, increased deployment frequency, more dependable releases, in close alignment with business objectives.

Definitions

According to Educaship Alliance LLC,

DevOps. A term for a group of concepts that, while not all new, have catalyzed into a movement and are rapidly spreading throughout the technical community. Is a new term emerging from the collision of two major related trends.

Inspiring quotes

• Simply put, things always had to be in a production-ready state: if you wrote it, you darn well had to be there to get it running!. --Mike Miller
• The most powerful tool we have as developers is automation. --Scott Hansellman
• The key in such a transition to continuous delivery is to expect things to get worse before you’ll be able to make them better. --Mattias Marschall
• Currently, DevOps is more like a philosophical movement, not yet a precise collection of practices, descriptive or prescriptive. --Gene Kim

Related lectures

• Operations Management Quarter.