The essence of DevOps

DevOps is not a new paradigm; however, it's gaining a lot of popularity and traction. Its adoption is at its highest level, and more and more companies are undertaking this journey. I purposely mentioned DevOps as a journey because there are different levels of maturity within DevOps. While successfully implementing continuous deployment and delivery are considered the highest level of maturity in this journey, adopting source code control and Agile software development are considered the first step in the DevOps journey.

One of the first things DevOps talks about is breaking down the barriers between the development and the operations teams. It brings about close collaboration between multiple teams. It's about breaking the mindset that the developer is responsible for writing the code only and passing it on to operations for deployment once it's tested. It's also about breaking the mindset that operations have no role to play in development...