Introduction to DevOps

By,

Michelle Leo

http://www.cryptextechnologies.com

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DevOps is a combination of Development (Software Development) and Operations (Software
Productions/IT Operations…)

What is DevOps?
DevOps is not a technology or tool, it is a concept of behavior, and it is an extension of Agile
Methodology.

The DevOps is a set of practices designed to overcome the gap between development, QA
and Operations by effective communication and collaboration, incorporating continuous
integration process with automated deployment.

DevOps helps to increase an organization’s speed to deliver applications and services. It

allows organizations to serve their customers better and compete more strongly in the market.

There are four basic continuous processes in DevOps:

 Continuous Integration
 Continuous Delivery
 Continuous Testing
 Continuous Monitoring

Relationship between Agile and DevOps

Agile Development is an umbrella term for several iterative and incremental software
development methodologies.

The most popular agile methodologies include Extreme Programming (XP), Scrum, Crystal,
Lean Development, and Feature-Driven Development (FDD).

On the other hand, DevOps is about a culture where development and operations collaborate
to give maximum throughput and high-end outcomes.

Similar to Agile, there are ways through which DevOps can be implemented such as deep
communication and automated deployment.

Agile is all about software development while DevOps deals with software development and
operations.

Note: Therefore one thing is clear that DevOps is an extension of agile methodology.

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DevOps Lifecycle
DevOps is deep integration between development and operations. Understanding DevOps is
not possible without knowing DevOps life cycle.

Here is brief information about the Continuous DevOps life-cycle:

 Development
In this DevOps stage the development of software takes place constantly. In this
phase, the entire development process is separated into small development cycles.
This benefits DevOps team to speed up software development and delivery process.
 Testing
QA team use tools like Selenium to identify and fix bugs in the new piece of code.
 Integration
In this stage, new functionality is integrated with the prevailing code, and testing
takes place. Continuous development is only possible due to continuous integration
and testing.
 Deployment
In this phase, the deployment process takes place continuously. It is performed in
such a manner that any changes made any time in the code, should not affect the
functioning of high traffic application.
 Monitoring
In this phase, operation team will take care of the inappropriate system behavior or
bugs which are found in production.

Software Tools for DevOps

As DevOps is the collaboration of Development, QA and Operations, it is obvious that a

single tool cannot be adequate for all the needs. So there are multiple tools required in each
stage to perform all the operations successfully.

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Popular Tool for DevOps Automation:
 Git : Version Control System tool
 Jenkins : Continuous Integration tool
 Selenium : Continuous Testing tool
 Puppet, Chef, Ansible : Configuration Management and Deployment tools
 Nagios : Continuous Monitoring tool
 Docker : Containerization tool

How do all these tools work together?

This flow may vary from organization to organization as per the requirement.

 Developers develop the code and this source code is managed by Version Control
System tools like Git etc.
 Developers send this code to the Git repository and any changes made in the code is
committed to this Repository.
 Jenkins pulls this code from the repository using the Git plugin and builds it using
tools like Ant or Maven.
 Configuration management tools like puppet deploys & provisions testing
environment and then Jenkins releases this code on the test environment on which
testing is done using tools like selenium.
 Once the code is tested, Jenkins send it for deployment on the production server
(even production server is provisioned & maintained by tools like puppet).
 After deployment It is continuously monitored by tools like Nagios.
 Docker containers provides testing environment to test the build features

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