DevOps (abbreviation for Development and Operations) is a culture, principles and practice of collaboration and communication between software development and operations (IT operations). The DevOps team is a team focused on implementing DevOps principles and aims to promote close collaboration between software development and operations to accelerate software delivery, improve software quality and achieve continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD).
The main goals of DevOps include:
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Automation: Automate repetitive and manual tasks, including building, deploying, testing, and monitoring. This reduces errors, increases efficiency, and speeds delivery.
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Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD): Implement a CI/CD process that enables developers to deliver new features and fix bugs frequently and quickly.
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Tight collaboration: Close collaboration between development and operations teams to ensure the deployability, scalability, and maintainability of the software.
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Monitoring and Feedback: Monitor the performance and operating status of the application in real time, identify problems in a timely manner and provide feedback to improve the application.
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Cultural change: DevOps advocates a cultural change that treats development and operations as an integrated team rather than separate functions.
DevOps teams are usually composed of professionals with different backgrounds and skills, including software developers, system administrators, operations engineers, quality assurance engineers, security experts, etc. These team members work together and are collectively responsible for building, testing, deploying, and running applications. They use tools and processes to automate, ensuring that the speed and quality of software delivery is improved.
The role of the DevOps team includes developing DevOps strategies, selecting and maintaining DevOps tools, managing automated processes, monitoring application performance, providing rapid feedback, etc. DevOps culture and practices have become standard practices adopted by many organizations in the field of software development and IT operations to improve efficiency, reduce costs and provide a better user experience