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DevOps

A set of practices combining software development (Dev) and IT operations (Ops) that aims to shorten the development lifecycle and deliver high-quality software continuously.

Definition

DevOps is both a culture and a set of practices. It emphasizes collaboration between development and operations teams, automation of repetitive tasks, continuous delivery, infrastructure as code, and monitoring. Key DevOps practices include: CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, containerization (Docker), orchestration (Kubernetes), and observability (logging, metrics, tracing).

Why It Matters

Organizations adopting DevOps see significant improvements: 200x more frequent deployments, 24x faster recovery from failures, and 3x lower change failure rate according to the State of DevOps report. DevOps enables teams to ship faster while maintaining reliability.

Example

A DevOps team uses Terraform to provision infrastructure, GitHub Actions for CI/CD, Docker for containerization, Kubernetes for orchestration, and Datadog for monitoring — all automated and version-controlled.

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