DevOps is the set of tools, practices, and culture that enable both the development and operations terms to work together during the entire life cycle of building software applications. DevOps enables the continuous delivery of software, allowing organizations to respond quickly to changing market opportunities and allowing them to get customer feedback quickly.
DevOps involves collaboration between teams and the automation of processes to achieve a common goal of adding value to customers' experiences by delivering software changes quickly and with high quality. DevOps requires a cultural change within an organization, along with the use of new technologies.
Shift left is a common term associated with DevOps. The idea is to perform tasks earlier in the life cycle, or to shift them left in the timeline. This term became popular with testing (shift, left testing), meaning...