What is Devops? DevOps is the blending of tasks performed by a company's application development and systems operations teams. The term DevOps is being used in several ways. In its most broad meaning, DevOps is an operational philosophy that promotes better communication between development and operations as more elements of operations become programmable. In its most narrow interpretation, DevOps describes the part of an organization’s information technology ( IT ) team that creates and maintains infrastructure . The term may also be used to describe a culture that strategically looks at the entire software delivery chain, overseeing shared services and promoting the use of new development tools and best practices . The DevOps toolchain Although marketers have jumped on the DevOps bandwagon, there is really no such thing as a “DevOps product.” There is only software that will help the development and operations team work together more efficie...