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Anshul Lalit, Global QA Manager at Kongsberg Digital, discusses how you can reap the benefits of DevOps and the effect it can have.<\/em><\/p>\n

With the tech industry growing exponentially day by day and new IT tools being regularly introduced to people, it is not unusual to see these buzzwords being thrown around by everyone without them knowing what they mean in their true sense. You might have encountered people who use words like \u2018cloud,’ \u2018big data\u2019 and \u2018scrum,’ and left to wonder whether they were used in the correct context or not. Amongst these buzzwords is \u2018DevOps,’ a name that has found its way onto several technicians\u2019 mouths.<\/p>\n

However, do they understand the true essence of what DevOps stands for? According to a survey conducted by CA Technologies, nearly half the participants did not know what DevOps meant!<\/p>\n

DevOps is much more than just a buzzword. It is not just a tool, or a method, or a professional. DevOps is a culture; a culture that inclines towards growth, communication, and fast response, subsequently transforming the work environment into a much more productive one.<\/p>\n

What exactly is DevOps?<\/h2>\n

Let us understand using a simple example: Imagine that there is a company that provides online services to its customers. To stay ahead of its competitors, it must deliver new and innovative products at a quicker rate and with increased frequency, so its customers remain satisfied and happy at all times.<\/p>\n

There are basically two groups or teams working to accomplish this common goal: the development team or \u2018Dev\u2019, consisting of all people involved in developing the product like developers, product managers, and QAs, and the operations team or \u2018Ops\u2019, comprised of system engineers, administrators, security and other disciplines.<\/p>\n

The job of the development team is to write and create new and innovative code and wait for it to enter the production cycle. The task of the operations team is to look after the product after it has been given delivered by Dev team and to enter it into the production cycle. Since the company keeps growing day by day, the environment and process of the operations sector changes as well, which requires the incoming code to be modified and massaged a bit before it is entered into the production cycle. This poses problems as the changes can produce technical issues in the actual code itself. Unfortunately, a wall exists between the two departments and hence the process of rectifying these issues in record time becomes next to impossible, subsequently damaging the relationship of the company with their customers. I am sure our developers and testers, along with Project and Configuration managers may relate to it instantly recalling their endless evenings and cold pizzas on their desk just before the release date for customers.<\/p>\n

What DevOps does is that it demolishes this metaphorical wall between the operations and development teams and creates an environment in which constant communication holds the primary status. Both developers and system administrators work together to run tests, identify and rectify problems in the product step by step instead of doing so at the end of the product development.<\/p>\n

How to reap the benefits?<\/h2>\n

With proper implementation of DevOps, a company can completely transform and upgrade the value that the employees and the customers of a business receive. What DevOps does is that it gradually automates the working environment- the processes that used to require tons of painstaking manual work now easily be performed through code. Let us look at some of the other incredible advantages that are brought about through a DevOps system.<\/p>\n