Importance of DevOps
In today’s fast-moving environment, it is imperative for companies to continuously update their existing applications. In this process, they often face complications that arise between developers and operational teams. For many years, the companies used the traditional Waterfall model in which the requirements for software were made clear and well-defined in advance. The definition of the product was stable. The Developers developed the software by coding, after which the operational teams were called in for implementation. But today, since the world of Technology is witnessing rapid growth, requirements tend to change very often, and software’s must be developed keeping those changes in mind. The software and web applications need to be marketed and updated faster than ever. New features must be added and advanced tools must be used to quickly debug programs. This all leads to the Agile Development model . However, to achieve results, all the members need to work in unison. The team of developers and the operational team must have the ability to react quickly and efficiently to changes, deploy and monitor the new applications and debug them at the same time. This process leads to the DevOps approach. DevOps can be defined as a set of software development practices and tools that combines software development (Dev) and information technology operations (Ops) to shorten and ease the time consumed for fixes, updates, and deliveries in the systems development life cycle. These practices are carried out keeping in mind the common business objectives and goals. DevOps allows all the team members including developers, the operational teams, system administrators, network managers and business analysts to work together to achieve a common goal.