DevOps
ELI5 — The Vibe Check
DevOps is the culture and practice of tearing down the wall between the people who write code (Dev) and the people who run it in production (Ops). Instead of throwing code over a wall, everyone works together on the whole lifecycle. The goal: ship faster, break less, fix faster.
Real Talk
DevOps is a set of practices, tools, and cultural philosophy that integrates software development (Dev) and IT operations (Ops). It emphasizes automation, continuous delivery, collaboration, and feedback loops to shorten the development lifecycle and increase deployment frequency.
When You'll Hear This
"We're a DevOps team — developers own their code all the way to production." / "Hire a DevOps engineer to set up our CI/CD pipeline and cloud infrastructure."
Related Terms
CD (Continuous Delivery / Continuous Deployment)
CD is what happens after CI checks your homework — it automatically delivers your finished work to the real world.
CI (Continuous Integration)
CI is like a robot assistant that instantly checks your homework every time you hand it in.
GitOps
GitOps is the idea that git is the single source of truth for EVERYTHING — your code, your infrastructure config, your deployment state.
Infrastructure as Code
ClickOps means building your cloud infrastructure by clicking buttons in AWS console.
SRE (Site Reliability Engineering)
SRE is Google's version of DevOps with a more engineering-focused twist.