© Pierluigi Riti 2018
Pierluigi RitiPro DevOps with Google Cloud Platformhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3897-4_1

1. Introduction to DevOps

Pierluigi Riti1 
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Mullingar, Westmeath, Ireland
 

DevOps, DevOps, DevOps, there is hardly a day in our professional lives that we don’t hear that mantra. The reason is simple: by adopting DevOps practices, a company can reduce “time to market,” the time necessary to identify a new software or other requirement and to put it in place.

In this chapter, I introduce some of the advantages of DevOps and the changes that must be made to accommodate and promote their use most profitably by a company.

What Is DevOps?

The term DevOps is derived from the combination of two words: developer and operations. DevOps is used ...

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