Though DevOps is a practical methodology, it is also fundamentally a mindset and cultural shift in an organization. Several key principles underscore this philosophy:

• Automation: Automate everything, such as workflows, testing new code, and how your infrastructure is provisioned to cut down on waste and overwork.
• Iteration: Write small chunks of code during a time-box sprint to support releases and sub-releases that increases the speed and frequency of deployments.
• Continuous improvement: Continuously test, learn from failures, and act on feedback in order to optimize performance, cost, and time to deployment.
• Collaboration: Unite teams, foster communication and breakdown silos between development, IT operations, and quality assurance.

The principles of DevOps often extend the lean agile mindset to operations primarily with a focus on automation and tooling to accomplish faster deployment.

Automation (and the tools that support it) allow developers and IT professionals to combine their efforts into one seamless process and adopt agile practices like continuous integration, delivery, and deployment. This process enables collaboration throughout the entire development pipeline from concept and builds to deployment and testing.

Additionally, DevOps principles prioritizes iterative processes that make space for continuous testing and feedback. Again, this practice makes it possible to accelerate the development process, but it also improves the quality and security of the products.

By continually testing, monitoring, and iterating on feedback with smaller but more frequent deployments, implementing the principle of DevOps in your organization successfully closes the loop between users, developers, and IT operations.

Our DevOps team will help setup the right environment for development as well as a continues integration (CI), continues delivery (CD), staging and production cloud system.