DevOps
A culture and set of practices combining software development and IT operations to shorten the development lifecycle.
Definition
DevOps is a set of practices, cultural philosophies, and tools that combines software development (Dev) and IT operations (Ops) to shorten the systems development lifecycle and deliver high-quality software continuously. DevOps emphasizes automation, collaboration, and shared responsibility between development and operations teams. Key practices include CI/CD, infrastructure as code (IaC), monitoring and observability, and automated testing. DevOps enables organizations to deploy code changes faster and more reliably.
Example
“A DevOps team uses infrastructure as code to provision cloud servers, CI/CD to automate testing and deployment, and Prometheus to monitor application health in real time.”
Synonyms
- development operations
- continuous delivery culture
- developer operations
Antonyms / Opposites
- siloed development and operations
- waterfall delivery
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Related Terms
- cicd
- sre
- infrastructure-as-code
- agile