Accelerating IT service delivery with DevOps
A DevOps approach requires development and operations to work together to increase the speed of software development and deployment.
As per the analyst firm Gartner:
“DevOps represents a change in IT culture, focusing on rapid IT service delivery through the adoption of agile, lean practices in the context of a system-oriented approach. DevOps emphasizes people (and culture), and it seeks to improve collaboration between operations and development teams. DevOps implementations utilize technology — especially automation tools that can leverage an increasingly programmable and dynamic infrastructure from a life cycle perspective.”
(Source: https://www.gartner.com/en/information-technology/glossary/devops)
This diverts significantly from the traditional waterfall model, where each phase of software development much be finished before the next phase can be started. With this development approach, developers work...