What is DevOps? | Aryan Agarwal

What is DevOps?

Firstly, DevOps is not a tool. You cannot buy it, it is not a software SKU or an open-source GitHub repository you can download. It is also not a programming language, it is also not some dark art magic either.

DevOps is a way to do smarter things in Software Development. - Hold up... But if you are not a software developer should you turn away right now and not dive into DevOps??? No. Not at all. Stay... Because DevOps brings together a combination of software development and operations.

There are people with all different backgrounds where DevOps is 100% going to benefit the individual, Developers, Operations, and QA Engineers all can equally learn these best practices by having a better understanding of DevOps.

DevOps is a set of practices that help to reach the goal of this movement: reducing the time between the ideation phase of a product and its release in production to the end-user or whomever it could be an internal team or customer.

Another area we will dive into is The Agile Methodology. DevOps and Agile are widely adopted together to achieve continuous delivery of your Application.

The high-level takeaway is that a DevOps mindset or culture is about shrinking the long, drawn-out software release process from potentially years to being able to drop smaller releases more frequently.

The other key fundamental point to understand here is the responsibility of a DevOps engineer to break down silos between the teams as previously mentioned: Developers, Operations and QA.

From a DevOps perspective, Development, Testing, and Deployment all land with the DevOps team.

The final point is we must leverage Automation as effectively and efficiently as possible.

Checkout the following videos to learn more about DevOps:

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xrgk023l4lI
2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Gpe1Zn-1fE&t=43s

Check out the DevOps roadmap.

Learn DevOps.

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