DevOps

How it is used

Formed from 'development' and 'operations' and widely used since around 2009. It names a culture and set of practices, but in job ads it is also a role: DevOps engineer, DevOps team. Some people say DevOps should not be a separate team, only a way of working.

Example sentences

1. After we adopted DevOps practices, we went from one release a month to several a day.

2. We're hiring a DevOps engineer with Kubernetes and Terraform experience.

Common collocations

• DevOps engineer
• DevOps culture
• DevOps practices
• adopt DevOps
• DevOps team

Related terms

• CI/CDShort for continuous integration and continuous delivery (or deployment): automatically building and testing every change, then releasing it quickly and safely.
• SREShort for site reliability engineering: using software engineering methods to run production systems reliably. It also names the engineer who does this work.
• pipelineAn automated series of steps, such as building, testing and deploying, that runs every time code changes and stops if one step fails.
• infrastructure as codeManaging servers, networks and other cloud resources by writing configuration files that tools read and apply, instead of clicking through a console by hand.
• continuous deliveryThe practice of keeping code always ready to release, so that any tested version can go to production at the push of a button.

This word in other fields

The same English word can have a different meaning in another field:

• DevOps · Cloud Computing & DevOps

More terms: Release and Maintenance

• deploy
• release
• production
• build
• ship
• documentation
• hotfix
• roll back
• staging
• legacy code
• deprecate
• release notes