DevOps

Today’s best model for delivering and maintaining IT systems. Traditionally, development and operations were two siloed organizations within IT, with the development team responsible for creating new software or making changes to existing software, and the operations team managing that software as people used it—among other things, responding to emergency outages. Unfortunately, in that model the two organizations had conflicting incentives: operations wanted systems to be stable, development wanted to deliver code and changes as quickly as possible—which causes instability. In the DevOps model, a single team is responsible for both development and operation, incentivized both to deliver quickly and maintain stability. With the help of automation and this combination of skills, conflict between these two objectives can eliminated.

— War and Peace and IT: Glossary, Mark Schwartz

DevOps combines a highly automated, repeatable, and testable Continuous Delivery framework with a unified team that extends through the full lifecycle of delivering capabilities to production

— The Art of Business Value, in “Chapter 7: The Delivery”, Mark Schwartz

DevOps, which is basically: how do we take agile and marry it with automation

— John Mark Walker · Innersource Improves Delivery Experience (FANNIE MAE), Las Vegas 2024 · at 4:52

DevOps is a professional and cultural movement that focuses on openness, sharing, and mutual respect. It seeks to improve the quality of life for its adherents and practitioners, for their company, for their organization, for their customers, for anybody participating in sort of the grand dream of DevOps.

— Daniel Maher · Demystifying DevOps & SRE, London 2020 · at 4:03

We define DevOps, with inspiration coming from my first year here, as Jez Humble said, with the word CALMS: culture, automation, lean, measurement, sharing

— Fernando Cornago, Benjamin Grimm · Where Cloud Native Meets the Sporting Goods Industry, Las Vegas 2019 · at 7:25

a philosophy and a practice where you bring developers and operations together to shorten the product life cycle

— Surya Avirneni, Bhavik Gudka · Incident Management Meets DevOps, Las Vegas 2019 · at 1:38

We define this as DevOps. At least this is what I define as DevOps: it's about eliminating the barriers, like the cultural, technical, and process barriers between idea and execution

— Kishore Jalleda · DevOps at Scale is a Hard Problem, San Francisco 2017 · at 2:02

DevOps is a set of practices and patterns that turn human capital into high-performing organizations

— John Willis · DevOps: You Build It, You Secure It, San Francisco 2017 · at 5:01

Really, it's the idea of fast feedback: of delivering something, monitoring how it actually works and what results it has, and then taking that feedback and feeding it back into the process to continuously improve

— Mark Schwartz · IT, DevOps, and Corporate Social Responsibility, Europe 2021 · at 1:02

DevOps is an evolution from this Agile model where Agile tries to bridge the gap between client and development. DevOps tries to bridge the gap between development and operations. That's why it's called DevOps.

— Tejas Chopra · DevOps at Netflix, Las Vegas 2023 · at 9:17

DevOps is a combination of leadership, systems thinking, culture, philosophies, practices, measurements, and tools that increases our organization's ability to deliver and operate high-quality services at high velocity

— Sevket Yapar · How to Start with DevOps, Las Vegas 2023 · at 3:05