Modern market conditions make new software development demands. One of the main issues nowadays is time. And the main goal of development teams is to reduce the time of executing a project. That's why in this article we decided to discuss how to maximize the effectiveness of your team and how to meet business requirements in a fast developing IT sphere.
To achieve this we need new methods and approaches which can establish an effective communication process between different functional departments of a company. One of the latest approaches which helps to cross this barrier is DevOps methodology. To understand how DevOps works we need to shed light on the main terms and DevOps principles.
DevOps definition
There is no clear explanation of what this methodology really is. What is more important is to understand the main DevOps goals. Here are most of them:
Many novices want to know the difference between Agile and DevOps. DevOps is closely related to Agile methodology but they are not the same. In addition to the interaction between the development and testing departments, the operating and deployment department is also connected to the product creation process.
Basically, DevOps automation tools are focused on administration and automatization processes. However, unlike a usual administrator, DevOps works with programmers more than with users. The main purposes of DevOps support are automation and bundling of software for the full development cycle.
To be more clear, let's give a simple example. A company can use different programming languages to create a product. Here, DevOps task is to be able to configure different environments for the operation of this software. Nodejs, PHP, and Ruby are three absolutely different programming languages, however, for a client, they are just three different sites. This customer doesn't even realize how the systems work from the inside (web-server, databases, backend, frontend and so on), so DevOps does all that. DevOps structure is also responsible for the server (monitoring, load optimization).
