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What is meant by the Cloud platform?
It is a suite of public cloud services. These services include the range of hosted services to compute, storage, and application development. Software developers, cloud administrators and other enterprises IT professionals can access this platform using the dedicated network connection.
So now let's move on with some DevOps terminologies
Continuous Integration:
It is a software development practice, where the developers integrate the code in a shared repository several times a day. Moreover, an automated build and test verify each integration.
Continuous Delivery:
It is a software development practice where continuous integration, automated testing, and automated deployment capabilities allow high-quality software for development and deployment
Continuous Deployment:
It is a software deployment practice where every change in code goes into the entire pipeline and put into production which in turn results in everyday production deployments
Continuous Monitoring:
It is a technological process responsible for detecting the compliance and risk issues associated with an organization's financial and operational environment.
Drawbacks of waterfall model:
- Agenda is fixed and the team follows blindly
- It is a sequential process and the change cost is high
- Testing delay
- It is a risky process to diagnose and provide feedback
- After development, deployment time is high
So to overcome these problems, we people adopt DevOps in the software development
What is DevOps?
DevOps(Dev+Ops) is the set of software development practices that combines the software development and IT Operations to shorten the development cycles.
It is responsible to deliver the fixes, features, and updates frequently in close alignment. Besides, this enables organizations to serve their customers better and compete more effectively in the market.
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How DevOps is different from traditional IT Practices?
DevOps is different from traditional IT practices in several ways. So let us discuss some of them
| Dimension | Traditional IT | DevOps |
| Batch Size | Big | Micro |
| Organization | Skill centric | Dedicated cell |
| Scheduling | Centralized | Decentralized and continuous |
| Release | At the project end | At regular intervals |
| Culture | Don’t fail | Fail early |
| Metric | Cost and Capacity | Cost, capacity and Flow |
When to adopt the DevOps?
It should be used for large distributed applications such as e-commerce sites (or) the applications that are hosted on the cloud platform
When DevOps should not be adopted?
DevOps practices should not be applied in mission-critical applications like power, bank, and other sensitive data sites. Moreover, these sites need strict access to the production environment like data centers action control policy.