What is DevOps?

Posted bySharath Chandran

What is DevOps?

DevOps is the latest Development Methodology where Dev team and Operations team are collaborated for better productivity , Improving the time to market of the product releases etc.

DevOps uses lots of tool like Git for Version controlling , Jenkins for Integrating multiple DevOps tools, helps on better communications between Developers, Testers, Operations team etc. Selenium is another tool used as part of DevOps which is a test automation and Jenkins controls and manages Selenium execution.

Puppet is another DevOps tool used for configuration management. Configuration script will be stored in puppet server and puppet agents on various VMs or target machines will be communicating puppet master. There are build management tools like Maven will be part of DevOps. Nagios is another DevOps tool which monitors systems, servers, infrastructures to make sure the deployed applications are running on production servers without any issues.

For testing specific requirements, Jenkins will help to send notification to Tester when a build is available for testing. Jenkins will trigger the selenium scripts and after execution, the results will be send out to target users including developers, management teams etc.

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