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What is DevOps?<\/span><\/h1>\n[\/mk_fancy_title][\/vc_column][\/mk_page_section][vc_row][vc_column][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][mk_page_section][vc_column width=”2\/3″][mk_padding_divider size=”20″][mk_fancy_title margin_bottom=”0″ font_family=”none”]\n

What is DevOps?<\/span><\/h2>\n[\/mk_fancy_title][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1536932353323{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”]DevOps is the practice of development engineers (Dev) and operations (Ops) working together in the entire development- and service lifecycle, from design through the development process to production support. In order to achieve this, the traditional separation between development and operations needs to be broken. This because both areas of expertise are required to successfully deliver and maintain software which meets the functional and non-functional requirements.<\/p>\n

The following example will give you a better understanding of the differences between the traditional approach (development and operations divided) and a DevOps team.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/3″][mk_padding_divider size=”20″][mk_image src=”https:\/\/old.devon.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/devops-mindset_2-small.jpg” image_width=”221″ image_height=”300″ link=”https:\/\/20239782.fs1.hubspotusercontent-na1.net\/hubfs\/20239782\/Posters%20DevOn\/DevOn%20Quality%20mindset.pdf” align=”center”][mk_padding_divider size=”20″][mk_button dimension=”flat” corner_style=”rounded” size=”medium” letter_spacing=”2″ url=”https:\/\/20239782.fs1.hubspotusercontent-na1.net\/hubfs\/20239782\/Posters%20DevOn\/DevOn%20Quality%20mindset.pdf” align=”center” margin_bottom=”0″ margin_right=”0″ btn_hover_bg=”#ffffff” btn_hover_txt_color=”#ff5000″]DOWNLOAD POSTER[\/mk_button][\/vc_column][\/mk_page_section][mk_page_section][vc_column][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”2\/3″][mk_padding_divider size=”20″][mk_fancy_title tag_name=”h3″ margin_bottom=”0″ font_family=”none”]\n

Dev and Ops divided<\/span><\/h3>\n[\/mk_fancy_title][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1537348682721{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”]The development team builds a piece of software, tests it and hands it over to the operations department where they are responsible for integrating the new software, running it, maintaining it and supporting it. Sometimes developers will give operations some sort of guidance on how to deal with production issues. But in many cases, operations has limited to knowledge of the production environment to begin with.<\/p>\n

With this divided setting, both departments don\u2019t have a lot of information on how the other works and what they need. Therefore, it can be hard for Ops to find the root problem when facing issues. This can cause downtime and delay in developing new features.[\/vc_column_text][mk_fancy_title tag_name=”h3″ margin_bottom=”0″ font_family=”none”]\n

DevOps team<\/span><\/h3>\n[\/mk_fancy_title][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1537348738763{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”]A true DevOps team works with the principle \u201cYou build it, you run it<\/em>\u201d. So the team that develops a feature, is also the team that’s responsible for running and maintaining it. This way, it is easier to locate bugs and fix them.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/3″][mk_padding_divider size=”20″][mk_image src=”https:\/\/old.devon.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/336×2800.png” image_size=”full” link=”https:\/\/old.devon.nl\/en\/high-performing-devops-enterprises-book\/” target=”_blank” align=”center” el_class=”summit-ad”][mk_padding_divider size=”20″][mk_image src=”https:\/\/old.devon.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/qkas-gad-300×250-opt-01.png” image_size=”full” link=”https:\/\/assessment-devon.azurewebsites.net\/enterprise-devops” target=”_blank” align=”center”][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_column][\/mk_page_section][mk_page_section bg_color=”#e0e0e0″ bg_stretch=”true” sidebar=”sidebar-1″][vc_column][mk_padding_divider size=”20″][mk_fancy_title tag_name=”span” color=”#000000″ size=”30″ force_font_size=”true” size_smallscreen=”20″ size_tablet=”20″ size_phone=”20″ font_weight=”300″ margin_bottom=”0″ font_family=”none”]\n

“You build it, you run it<\/em>“<\/p>\n[\/mk_fancy_title][mk_fancy_title tag_name=”span” color=”#000000″ size=”24″ force_font_size=”true” size_smallscreen=”16″ size_tablet=”16″ size_phone=”16″ font_weight=”300″ font_family=”none” align=”right”]\n

– Werner Vogels CTO @Amazon –<\/p>\n[\/mk_fancy_title][\/vc_column][\/mk_page_section][mk_page_section][vc_column][mk_padding_divider size=”20″][mk_fancy_title margin_bottom=”0″ font_family=”none”]\n

Why DevOps?<\/span><\/h2>\n[\/mk_fancy_title][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1537348756778{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”]Before going into the main advantages that DevOps has to offer, it is important to state that DevOps should not be a goal on its own, it is a practice that helps you to achieve your goal. It can help you shorten your time-to-market, or it can help you improve the collaboration between Dev and Ops by letting them work together in one team.<\/p>\n

Other major advantages include:[\/vc_column_text][mk_custom_list style=”mk-icon-power-off”]\n