The word ‘DevOps’ is a combination of two words ‘development’ and ‘operations.’ DevOps is a term of a group of concepts that have catalyzed into movement. They are rapidly spreading throughout the technical community. Here, I propose this definition as a standard framework to more clearly discuss the various areas DevOps covers. DevOps is a large enough concept that it requires some nuances to fully understand.

On other words, DevOps is the combination of cultural philosophies, practices, and tools that increases an organization’s ability to deliver applications and services at high velocity by evolving and improving products at a faster pace than organizations by using traditional software development and infrastructure management processes. This speed enables organizations to serve better for their customers and compete more effectively in the market.

It promotes collaboration between Development and Operations Team to deploy code to produce faster in an automated & repeatable way. It helps to increases an organization’s speed to deliver applications and services. It is an alignment of development and IT operations with better communication and collaboration.

Benefits of DevOps:

There are some benefits of adopting in your organization. Here, I classify the benefits into three groups.

Technical Benefits:

Less complexity to manage

Continuous software delivery

Faster resolution of problems

Business Benefits:

Improved communication and collaboration

More time to innovate (rather than)

Faster delivery of features

More stable operating environments

Cultural Benefits:

Greater professional development opportunities

Happier, more productive teams

Higher employee engagement

The Purpose of DevOps:

The purpose of DevOps is to improve collaboration across the value stream by developing and automating a continuous delivery pipeline from planning through delivery. Here in this context, the purpose of DevOps is given.

Increases the frequency and quality of deployments

Improves innovation and risk by making it safer to experiment

Realizes faster time to market

Improves solution quality and shortens the lead time for reducing the severity and frequency of release failures

Improves the Mean Time to Recovery (MTTR)