DevOps Clarified

DevOps is not about deployment with Docker/K8. It is a set of practices that enable frequent high-quality production releases. Most of DevOps efforts are on Continuous Testing.

This article is one of the “IT Terminology Clarified” series.

DevOps has been a buzzword in the IT world since 2018. According to Wikipedia, “DevOps is a set of practices that combines software development (Dev) and IT operations (Ops). It aims to shorten the systems development life cycle and provide continuous delivery with high software quality.”

“By 2020, DevOps initiatives will cause 50% of enterprises to implement continuous testing using frameworks and open-source tools.” — Predicts 2017: Gartner Report

Name-wise, DevOps is not an ideal one as the original meaning is largely lost. However, DevOps is so popular that some others have started to copy its form: such as GitOps, QAOps, SecOps, ITOps, DevSecOps. A quick test: If you replace ‘Ops’ with the original word “Operations”, do these terms make sense? Obviously not. All these are just marketing tricks. But from this, we can tell that many people don’t understand DevOps. This article will try to clarify it.