DevOps

A set of practices that combines software development (Dev) and IT operations (Ops) to shorten the development lifecycle and provide continuous delivery with high software quality.

Practices Employed

• Automated Testing: Automated Testing and Test Driven Development (TDD) validate code changes to ensure they work as expected. See:
  • Automated Testing
  • Test Driven Development (TDD)
• Configuration Management: DevOps uses Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to manage and provision computing infrastructure through machine-readable scripts. See:
  • Security as Code
  • Infrastructure As Code (IaC)
  • Configuration Management
• Design: DevOps emphasizes microservices architecture and service discovery to improve scalability and reliability. See:
  • Microservices Architecture
  • Service Discovery
• Integration Testing: Continuous Integration (CI) regularly integrates code changes into a shared repository to detect and fix problems early. See:
  • Continuous Integration (CI)
• Monitoring: Monitoring and logging, along with observability, are critical for identifying issues and opportunities for improvement in DevOps. See:
  • Monitoring and Logging
  • Observability
• Prototyping: Canary releases and blue-green deployments are used to test new features in a controlled manner. See:
  • Canary Releases
  • Blue-Green Deployment
• Redundancy: Load balancing and redundancy are crucial for maintaining uptime in a DevOps environment. See:
  • Load Balancing
  • Redundancy
• Release Delivery: Continuous Delivery (CD), Continuous Deployment, and Blue-Green Deployment ensure smooth and frequent releases. See:
  • Continuous Delivery (CD)
  • Continuous Deployment
  • Blue-Green Deployment
• Security Testing: Security as Code and Automated Security Testing integrate security practices into the DevOps pipeline. See:
  • Automated Security Testing
• Version Control: Version Control and Artifact Management are essential for managing code and builds in DevOps. See:
  • Version Control
  • Artifact Management

Description

"DevOps is a methodology in the software development and IT industry. Used as a set of practices and tools, DevOps integrates and automates the work of software development (Dev) and IT operations (Ops) as a means for improving and shortening the systems development life cycle." - DevOps, Wikipedia

DevOps emphasizes collaboration between development and operations teams to improve efficiency, reliability, and scalability. Key practices in DevOps include continuous integration, continuous delivery, infrastructure as code, monitoring and logging, automated testing, and configuration management. DevOps focuses on automating and streamlining the software development and deployment process.

See Also

Additional DevOps Practices

• Microservices Architecture: Designing applications as a collection of loosely coupled, independently deployable services.
• Service Discovery: Automatically detecting and connecting to services in a microservices architecture.
• Security as Code: Integrating security practices into the DevOps pipeline.
• Automated Security Testing: Using automated tools to perform security checks throughout the development and deployment process.

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