A portmanteau of “development” and “operations,” DevOps blends software developers and IT operations into a single team. DevOps creates a work environment, culture and set of practices in which software developers and IT operations constantly communicate and collaborate in order to rapidly bring products and services to market.
DevOps leans on multiple practices to achieve these inclusing IT Service Management, Lean and Agile. A key feature of DevOps practices is the extensive use of automation in delivering software faster, frequently and more reliably.