Dev Ops
DevOps is a combination of "Development" and "Operations", representing a methodology aimed at fostering closer collaboration between software development and IT operations teams. The goal is to make software development, deployment, and maintenance more efficient and reliable.
Here are the core elements of DevOps:
- Collaboration and Communication: Development and operations teams work closely together to avoid misunderstandings and make quicker decisions.
- Automation: Many manual processes (such as testing, integration, deployment, and monitoring) are automated using tools to minimize errors and increase efficiency. Examples of such tools include Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes, or Ansible.
- Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD): Code is integrated frequently in small increments and tested automatically (CI). These tested changes can then be automatically delivered to production environments (CD), making deployments faster and safer.
- Monitoring and Feedback: Systems are monitored in real-time to detect issues early, allowing for quick feedback that feeds back into the development cycle.
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Infrastructure is managed and provisioned through code that can be versioned, reviewed, and reused. Tools like Terraform or CloudFormation are commonly used for this.