Over the years, DevOps has proven to be a powerful approach to software development and delivery. The practice was developed around 2008, when concerned IT operations and software development professionals questioned the traditional software development model that siloed the roles and responsibilities of their respective teams.
Today, the primary aim of DevOps is to enhance collaboration, quality, and speed along the software development lifecycle (SDLC). This blog post is intended to define the practice and provide a few basic ideas for putting DevOps front and center of your application development and delivery environment to help increase innovation.