10 Facts About DevOps

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DevOps is a set of practices that combines software development and IT operations.

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DevOps is complementary with Agile software development; several DevOps aspects came from the Agile way of working.

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At its most successful, DevOps is a combination of specific practices, culture change, and tools.

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In 2012, the State of DevOps report was conceived and launched by Alanna Brown at Puppet.

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Many of the ideas fundamental to DevOps practices are inspired by, or mirror, other well known practices such as Lean and Deming's Plan-Do-Check-Act cycle, through to The Toyota Way and the Agile approach of breaking down components and batch sizes.

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Contrary to the "top-down" proscriptive approach and rigid framework of ITIL in the 1990s, DevOps is "bottom-up" and a flexible practice, created by software engineers, with software engineer needs in mind.

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Today, DevOps focuses on the deployment of developed software, whether it is developed using Agile oriented methodologies or other methodologies.

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ArchOps presents an extension for DevOps practice, starting from software architecture artifacts, instead of source code, for operation deployment.

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DevSecOps is an augmentation of DevOps to allow for security practices to be integrated into the DevOps approach.

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DevOps is as much about culture, as it is about the toolchain.

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