Before delving into the topic, we need to get a clear definition of what DevOps is. The term itself is a combination of development and operations, describing the strong bond that developers and operations people need to form in order to truly succeed.
"DevOps is a set of practices intended to reduce the time between committing a change being placed into normal production, while ensuring high quality."
– DevOps – A Software Architect's Perspective (Bass, Weber, Zhu for Addison-Wesley 2015)
– DevOps – A Software Architect's Perspective (Bass, Weber, Zhu for Addison-Wesley 2015)
The term DevOps was first coined by Andrew Clay Shafer and Patrick Debois in 2008. As you can see, DevOps cannot be considered new anymore. The idea has been around for some time and has matured and grown. Still, many IT people, developers and operations alike, have not yet seen DevOps in action, let alone embraced a DevOps mindset.
Even though...