What is DevOps?
It's a cultural practice in an organization for the development and operation teams to use each other's tools, to smooth out the software delivery process.
What are development and operations?
Development - Responsible for writing, testing, reviewing, and integrating code. The development team is responsible for creating software products.
Operations - Responsible for deploying and managing software products and infrastructure.
Why learn DevOps?
Automation - Automation in DevOps refers to the use of tools and processes to automate various stages of deployment. This helps DevOps teams deliver high-quality software faster and more efficiently by reducing the need for manual involvement and decreasing the risk of human error.
Scalability - Scalability in DevOps is a topic that refers to the ability of a system to handle increasing or decreasing demand for its services without compromising performance, reliability, or quality.
Infrastructure - It refers to the way of managing and configuring the resources & components that are needed to run the application. it includes servers, storage, databases, etc. where all these are configured via code, hence it is known as infrastructure as code(IAC).
Why DevOps is important?
DevOps support frequent and reliable releases of software and infrastructure by using tools such as GitHub Actions, Jenkins, etc. this helps meet customer expectations and market demands more effectively.
DevOps reduces the risk of deployment failures by using automated testing, and configuration management. This shows that the software or infrastructure works as expected in different environments.
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