Continuous Integration — Continuous Integration is the practice of automating the integration of code changes in a software project. It allows developers to frequently merge code changes into a central repository where builds and tests are executed. This helps DevOps teams to address bugs more swiftly, improve software quality, and reduce the time taken to verify and release new software updates.Continuous Delivery — Continuous Delivery extends Continuous Integration by automatically deploying code changes to a testing/production environment. It follows a continuous delivery pipeline, where automated build, testing, and deployments are scheduled as a single workflow iteration.Status Awareness — Critical to every member within an organization is having access to the data they need to perform their tasks as efficiently and swiftly as possible. Team members need to be alerted to deployment pipeline failures, whether system-wide or due to failed tests, and receive timely updates on the health and performance of applications running in production. Metrics, logs, tracing, monitoring, and alerts are all vital sources that feedback teams need to be informed.Automation — Automation is one of the most crucial DevOps practices, enabling teams to move much faster through the software development and deployment process with high quality. With automation, simple actions like pushing code changes to a source code repository can trigger a build, test, and deployment process that significantly reduces the time taken for these steps.Infrastructure as Code (IaC) — Whether your organization has on-premises data centers or is fully cloud-based, the ability to rapidly and consistently provide, configure, and manage infrastructure is key to a successful DevOps adoption. Infrastructure as Code (IaC) goes beyond scripting infrastructure configuration and treats your infrastructure definitions as real code using version control, code reviews, testing, and so forth.Microservices — Microservices is an architectural technique where an application is built as a collection of smaller, independent services that can be deployed and operated autonomously from one another. Each service has its own processes and communicates with other services through an interface. This separation of concerns and self-contained functionality enables DevOps practices like continuous delivery and continuous integration.Monitoring — DevOps teams monitor every stage of the development lifecycle, from planning, development, integration and testing, to deployment and operations. This enables teams to react to customer experience degradation swiftly and automatically. Importantly, it allows teams to shift left to earlier stages in development and minimize broken production changes.