1Introduction to DevOps
“It is through improving our ability to deliver software that organizations can deliver features faster, pivot when needed, respond to compliance and security changes, and take advantage of fast feedback to attract new customers and delight existing ones.”
—Nicole Forsgren, PhD
How do we build secure, resilient, and rapidly evolving systems at scale? This was the question that led to the birth of DevOps. Prior to DevOps, this was an important problem that organizations were facing. As time passed, software engineering evolved, and more innovative software has been built to provide solutions in interesting business sectors. This software is currently transforming and accelerating different kinds of organizations.
DEFINITION AND OVERVIEW OF DevOps
DevOps is a culture or a set of practices bridging the gap between two formerly siloed units, software developers (Dev) and IT operations staff (Ops), throughout the entire product development life cycle. The adoption of the DevOps culture, tools, and applications has empowered teams with the ability to build and securely scale their software development practices, engage customers to get feedback more efficiently, and ship software that helps organizations meet their business goals faster.
HISTORY OF DevOps
To appreciate where DevOps ...
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