[Term of the Day]: DevOps
Term of the Day
“DevOps”
Definition — What is DevOps?
DevOps is a collaboration of two words Development and Operations, it is the process that works to automate and integrate the processes between software development (Dev) and IT Operations (Ops) teams. The practice of DevOps also encourages smoother, continuous communication, collaboration, integration, visibility, and transparency between software Development teams and their IT Operations teams.
Organizations that adopt DevOps culture and practices, get their application or tool more quickly than the traditional software development approaches. The faster development of applications is a crucial part of businesses and the success rate depends on its ability to innovate faster than its competitors. Kevin Murphy from Red Hat estimates that shorter development cycles translate to bringing an application to market 60 percent faster than with traditional approaches.
Key reasons why organizations adopt DevOps:
- Shorter Development Cycles, Faster Innovation with a combined development and operations team, applications are ready for use more quickly.
- Reduced Costs and IT Headcount. All the benefits of DevOps lead to reduced general costs and requirements of IT staff.
- Increased efficiency helps to speed the development process and make it less prone to error
- Save costs on maintenance and upgrades, and eliminate unnecessary capital expenditure
- Clear product vision within the team. Product knowledge is no longer scattered across different roles and departments which means better process transparency and decision making.