DevOps

DevOps is the cultural and professional movement that unifies software development (Dev) and IT operations (Ops) through automation, enabling rapid, continuous delivery.

DevOps is a cultural shift: it breaks down traditional silos between Dev and Ops teams, fostering shared ownership and empathy across the entire application lifecycle. The core mechanism is automation, specifically through Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines. Teams leverage tools like Git for version control, Jenkins or GitLab for CI/CD orchestration, and containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes) for consistent environments. This integrated approach dramatically increases deployment frequency and velocity, reducing the Mean Time To Recover (MTTR) from outages and delivering higher-quality features to customers faster.

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