From Dev to Ops: Exploring the World of Dev-Ops and Continuous Delivery
Published: 2023-06-18 04:45:52

What do you understand by the term called ‘Dev-Ops’? Is it a new game? a new movie or series? Nah… It’s considered as the important part in the process of delivering the software to the users with more fast, frequent and reliable.

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Let’s try to get a basic understanding about Dev-Ops.
A basic idea about Dev-Ops, not just to make it reliable and also to make software to run without any issues

In a most of the software companies, mostly there will be two teams called the Developers and the Operational. Developers are responsible for creating software, updating, bug fixes, integrating new features to provide best experience for the end user.

On the other hand, Operations team monitor, manage and make the software (weather it’s a app or website), to work with high reliability (it’s like with minimal down time) and also to roll out and roll back the updates, etc all.

Most of the companies face the issues between the Development and Operations team because the communication gap, usage of different tool and works on different environments, and majorly the development team excites for their new feature or the product to be live for public fast.

But the Operational team concerned about the current working application, it may break if it fails to run, it may create problems for the users who are currently using it, and also the operational teams want to deliver the product to the end user with more reliability, security and seamless service from the company.

So, it may takes sometime to deliver the new feature or any update to the user. So, to manage the teams in between the Dev-Ops acts as a bridge between these two to help both the teams to reach their goals and provide the end user a best experience and a great service.
Responsibilities of Dev-Ops Engineer:

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**Collaboration:** As discussed before, this team acts as a bridge between the Development and Operations team to deliver the end product without any failures and issues.

**Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery:** It is a pipeline in the Dev-Ops to automate the Software Development, testing and deployment processes. This involves tools to use like Jenkins, Git-Lab, etc. Which can be further learnt detailed in upcoming blogs)

**Infrastructure as Code (IaC):** To manage the resources programmatically, Dev-ops engineers utilize tools like Terraform or Cloud-formation to manage the infrastructure. It is basically to automate the provision and configuration the servers, networking and other infrastructure Components.

**Configuration Management:** To manage the multiple automation, they use tools ,like Ansible, Puppet or Chef to manage configuration and infrastructure components.

**Monitoring and Logging:** To track the performance, availability and health of applications and infrastructure, Dev-Ops engineers set up monitoring systems as Prometheus, Grafana or Nagios. They analyze logs and metrics to identify issues and proactively address them.
   
**Cloud Platform Management:** To deploy, manage and optimize applications more easily and reliably, they use cloud providers service as AWS, GCP, Azure. They use many cloud services to provide the best service to the end users.

**Security and Compliance:** They implement security controls, perform vulnerability assessments, and ensure compliance with industry standards and regulations.

**Incident Response and Recovery:** They participate in incident management, investigating and resolving the issue that affect the availability or performance of the application. And also work on disaster recovery and quick system recovery.
   
**Tooling and Automation:** They evaluate, implement and maintain various tools and technologies that support the Dev-Ops workflow. This includes source code management, build systems, test frameworks, containerization platforms and more.

Dev-Ops is not about the single tool, it’s about using multiple tools and getting to know where the problem is. In the next blog, we are going to learn about the Docker (Containerization) a hands on approach.