An Introduction to DevOps and the Atlassian Ecosystem

DevOps has been a driving force for improvement in product development since its inception in 2009. As technology moved to internet-based, off-premises cloud environments, DevOps allowed people working in development and operations a way to collaborate, enabling quicker and more stable design, packaging, deployment, and maintenance of products. A key component of this is the adoption of automation that ensures these processes run smoother.

In this chapter, we will look at the DevOps movement and the role that automation plays in its success. We will then look at the Open DevOps platform from Atlassian that allows easy connection between Jira, other Atlassian tools such as Confluence and Bitbucket, as well as third-party tools such as LaunchDarkly, which allows you to release products through feature flags, and Snyk, which performs security scanning.

To start our journey into Open DevOps, we will examine the steps needed to...