Devops
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A software development practice that promotes collaboration between development and operations, resulting in faster and more reliable software delivery.
Note that these two have somewhat conflicting priorities. Developers measure their progress via amount of patches, feature upgrades and version releases. IT Operations, on the other hand, are repsonsible for stability and avoiding changes that break the deployement. The practices that enable the two cooperate are encompassed by the domain of Devops.
To summarize: Devops is about ..
… bringing together people, processes and tools that enable business agility.
A generic Flow :
