Introduction to DevOps: What It Is and Why It Matters

DevOps is a popular term frequently encountered on the internet these days. Let's dive into what is DevOps.

DevOps is a culture that organizations embrace to improve how they deliver applications quickly and smoothly. If an organization currently takes 10 days to deliver an upgraded version of a product, by adopting DevOps, it would take only a few hours or 1-2 days to deliver the product.

Simply put, DevOps is all about making the process of delivering applications or code efficiently. It focuses on automation, continuous monitoring, observability, quality, and continuous testing to ensure everything runs smoothly.

Why DevOps?

Ten years ago, before DevOps became a thing, there were many different roles involved in delivering a product.

A System Administrator was responsible for creating a server.

Build and Release Engineer was responsible for deploying the application on the server.

Server Admin created the application server.

Due to the significant manual effort involved, the process of product delivery became slow.

With the advent of DevOps, these processes are now automated and efficiently completed within a short timeframe.

So that was a glimpse into what DevOps is and why it's so amazing!

DevOps is a cultural shift in organizations aimed at improving the speed and efficiency of application delivery through automation, continuous monitoring, and testing. By adopting DevOps practices, processes that once took days can now be completed in hours, significantly enhancing productivity and reducing manual effort.