DevOps is an information technology management philosophy that seeks to improve and speed up the delivery of software and services to users.
Developers have adopted frameworks such as Agile to enable rapid "sprints" of software development, and information technology operations have typically lagged in their ability to safely deploy the results of these "sprints".
DevOps proposes to improve the situation by removing the silos between IT teams, and adopting a product-centric approach that emphasizes automation and tooling to speed up, and make safer, the mechanical tasks of testing and deploying software.
DevOps often necessitates serious cultural changes in an organization and benefits from the use of specialized tools that help to implement its many techniques and approaches. DevOps seeks to reduce time to delivery, enabling IT teams to rapidly evolve their software in short bursts, and quickly deploy those into production.
Here are some of the features of DevOps:
With the Azure Boards, you can deliver value faster using proven agile tools to plan, track, and discuss work across your teams. Utilize tools like Kanban boards, backlogs, team dashboards, and custom reporting. You can combine drag and drop sprint planning and flexible work item tracking with traceability.
Automate builds and deployments with Pipelines. It works with any language, platform, and cloud. Fast and continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines for every open source project.
Free private Git repositories, pull requests, and code search.
Test and ship with manual and exploratory testing tools.
Create, host, and share packages with your team and add artifacts to your CI/CD pipelines.
DevOps lets you plan and collaborate better. DevOps is easily adaptable for a Sitecore implementation or upgrade project.
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