Introducing DevOps

DevOps is a culture. Its name comes from a combination of development and operations, and it envisions the practices and tools that are used to deliver rapidly. DevOps is about speed, agility, and time. We all know the phrase “time is money,” and this applies very well to the IT sector. The ability to deliver services and applications at a high speed can make the difference between being successful as a business and being irrelevant in the market.

DevOps is a model of cooperation between different teams involved in delivering services and applications. This means that the entire life cycle, from development and testing, up to deployment and management, is done by teams that are equally involved at every stage. The DevOps model assumes that no team is operating in a closed environment, but rather operates transparently in order to achieve the agility they need to succeed. There is also a different DevOps model whereby security and quality assurance...