DevOps is a clipped compound term that combines “Development” and “Operations” practices of IT software development, having originated in the mid-2000s among IT professionals looking for efficient and innovative ways to automate and speed up the process of software delivery. As a change agent, DevOps promotes a culture of collaboration and information sharing across the organization, a radical departure from the ‘silos’ of the past.

Continuous Integration (CI) is a software development practice that makes sure developers integrate their code into a shared repository as and when they are done working on the feature. Each integration is verified by means of an automated build process that allows teams to detect problems in their code at a very early stage rather than finding them after the deployment.

By incorporating Continuous Integration for both development and testing, it has been found that the software quality has improved and the time taken for delivering the features of the software has drastically reduced. This also allows the development team to detect and fix errors at the initial stage as each and every commit to the shared repository is built automatically and run against the unit and integration test cases.

The most popular DevOps tools include:

● Selenium

● Puppet

● Chef

● Git

● Jenkins

● Ansible

● Docker

Some of the industries where DevOps services include are:

● Home automation

● Industrial automation

● Medical devices

● Video surveillance

● Networking