What is DevOps & How to Find Right DevOps Tools

Serena Gray
2 min readDec 3, 2020

What’s DevOps?

DevOps (a portmanteau of "development” and "operations”) is the combination of tools and practices designed to improve an organization’s ability to deliver applications and services faster than conventional software development processes. This rate enables organizations to better serve their customers and compete more effectively in the industry.

DevOps is all about removing the barriers between traditionally siloed teams, operations, and development. Below a DevOps version, operations and development teams work together across the whole software application life cycle, from development and evaluation via installation to operations.

DevOps practices allow you to move at the velocity you want to innovate faster, adapt to changing markets better, and become more efficient at driving business results.

How to find the right DevOps tools

DevOps practices rely on powerful tools to help teams rapidly and reliably deploy and innovate to their clients. These tools should automate manual tasks, assist teams to manage complex environments at scale, and keep engineers in control of the high-velocity pace that is DevOps.

The DevOps workflow Includes stages:

Planning another iteration of the product’s creation

Construction the code

Testing and deploying into the creation environment

Delivering product updates

Tracking and logging Program functionality

Gathering customer feedback

Planning. Schedule planning and task tracking tools are needed to ensure the DevOps team is aware of what tasks are in hand, what is being done, and whether there are any risks of falling behind schedule. Tools like Confluence and Jira assist DevOps teams to reach a seamless and efficient project management cycle and ensure timely product delivery.

Build and delivery. Programmers need rapid deployment of testing and development environments and can not wait long for repairs when something goes wrong. Docker containerization guarantees consistency across multiple developments and release cycles and gives repeatable development, construct, test, and manufacturing environments.

Testing. Look for resources like Jenkins, CircleCI, and GitLab CI, which help minimize the time and effort devoted to testing without compromising the code quality or consumer experience.

Computer software monitoring and logging. Once the software is moved to manufacturing, it must be monitored to guarantee stable performance and increased customer satisfaction. This stage also involves performance analysis and logging, raising smart alerts on various issues, collecting customer feedback, and so on. Tools for performing these jobs comprise Prometheus, Grafana, Elastic (ELK) Stack, Splunk, and Sumo Logic.

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Serena Gray

I work as a Senior Testing Specialist at TestingXperts. I am a testing professional accustomed to working in a complex, project-based environment.