What is DevOps
DevOps is a collaboration between Development and IT Operations to make software production and Deployment in automated & repeatable way. DevOps helps increase the organization’s speed to deliver software applications and services.
It allows organizations to serve their customers better and compete more strongly in the market. In simple words, DevOps can be defined as an alignment of development and IT operations with better communication and collaboration.
Why is DevOps needed and important?
DevOps is needed and important because it helps in various ways :
Continuous delivery.
Better collaboration between the teams.
Better efficiency and scalability.
Lesser manual interventions.
More security.
Easy deployment, etc.
DevOps Lifecycle or Infrastructure.
DevOps lifecycle is divided into six different phases and these phases will give you clarity on WHY DevOps :
Source Code Management
Continuous Build and Test
Continuous Integration
Continuous Deployment
Continuous Monitoring
Software released
Important tools used in DevOps.
Let’s look at the important tools used in DevOps:
Source Control: GitHub, Bitbucket
Configuration Management: Jenkins, Gitlab
Cloud: Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, etc.
Containerization: Docker
Orchestration: Kubernetes
What are Automation and Scaling?
AUTOMATION: Automation primarily aims to automate the development, testing, deploying and monitoring of software. DevOps automation scripts are the tools used to automate the DevOps processes, allowing developers to focus on their core tasks and speed up software delivery. New Developments, such as containerization and Infrastructure-as-Code, are making DevOps automation more accessible and powerful.
SCALING: Scaling means that the enterprise can configure its system during high demand and scale down automatically when the demand falls.
The keys to Success in Scaling are:
Skills and Culture.
Automate.
Establish small platform teams.
Implement the Security through DevOps.
Choose the tools for scaling DevOps