05. What are the benefits of Cloud DevOps?

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DevOps gives best practices and tools for solving these problems:

  • DevOps Tools: DevOp tools deploy and manage configuration changes to servers.
    • Stackexchange has a discussion post detailing the difference between DevOps tools vs. Software Configuration Tools
  • Allows for predictable deployments, because it’s an automated script.
  • Enables Continuous Integration Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) so that new features are automatically deployed with all the required dependencies.

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Glossary

  • Continuous Integration Continuous Deployment (CI/CD): Tracks the development workflow from testing through production. Continuous integration is process flow of testing any change made to your development flow, while continuous deployment tracks those changes through to staging and production systems.
    • Check out this article by Atlassian.com that describes these in detail.
    • This article by Florian Matlik describes the differences between continuous integration and continuous deployment.

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