Word of the Day: DevOps

Word of the Day Daily updates on the latest technology terms |May 31, 2017

DevOps DevOps is the blending of tasks performed by a company's application development and systems operations teams. Visit our newest sister site, DevOpsAgenda.com, to learn more about DevOps!   The DevOps approach seeks to meld application development and deployment into a more streamlined process, shifting some of the operation team's responsibilities back to the development team in order to facilitate continuous development, continuous integration, continuous delivery and continuous monitoring processes.   The necessity for tearing down the silos between development and operations has been expedited by the need to release code faster and more often in order to help the organization respond in a more agile manner to changing business requirements. Other drivers for breaking down the silos include the increasing use of cloud computing and advances in software-defined infrastructures, microservices, containers and automation.   In its most broad meaning, DevOps describes a culture that promotes better communication between development and operations as more elements of operations become programmable. In its most narrow interpretation, DevOps describes the part of an organization's information technology (IT) team that creates and maintains infrastructure. New software tools have sprung up to help organizations automate testing and create a more streamlined development and release pipeline. Such tools include GitHub for storing code, Puppet and Chef for configuration management, Nagios for monitoring how changes to code affect the environment and Splunk for operational intelligence. Although marketers have jumped on the DevOps bandwagon, there is really no such thing as a "DevOps product." There is only software that will help the development and operations team work together more efficiently and respond to changing requirements more flexibly. Quote of the Day "You'll need leadership for DevOps to really work. Thankfully, because DevOps will improve the speed and quality of production and cut costs, your boss should be on board." - Chris Tozzi   Trending Terms quality assurance continuous software development BizDevOps DevOps certification DevOps as a Service configuration management   Learning Center High-level DevOps leaders needed for DevOps to take root Yes, DevOps needs grassroots support. But for it to succeed, high-level DevOps leaders must also get involved to push the culture change. DevOps automation remains a high hurdle for DevOps culture DevOps and automation experts weigh in on the discrepancy between DevOps culture and the nuts and bolts automated testing adoption. What does soft-ripening French cheese have to do with DevOps QA? What does soft-ripening French cheese have to do with DevOps? Well, even in a world of automation, QA will always need a little bit of that human touch. DevOps vs. NoOps: Will automation give Ops the proverbial boot? As more and more enterprises adopt and use automation in continuous development, NoOps, DevOps without the operations side, seems possible. Doing DevOps? Turn your boss into a DevOps leader first If you want to implement DevOps principles in your organization, you'll need to engage executive and manager-level support. You'll need DevOps leaders. Writing for Business Successfully _______ a DevOps culture in a data center isn't easy, but it brings great rewards. A. adapting B. adopting Answer       Stay In Touch For feedback about any of our definitions or to suggest a new definition, please contact me at: mrouse@techtarget.com   Visit the Word of the Day Archives and catch up on what you've missed!   FOLLOW US About This E-Newsletter This e-newsletter is published by the TechTarget network. To unsubscribe from Whatis.com, click here. Please note, this will not affect any other subscriptions you have signed up for. TechTarget, Whatis, 275 Grove Street, Newton, MA 02466. Contact: webmaster@techtarget.com Copyright 2016 TechTarget. All rights reserved.