DevOps promotes communication and collaboration between business, development & operations teams.
DevOps is also about continuous improvement which helps in learning through feedback.
Today organizations are looking to deliver the software faster and from that point of view here are my thoughts on how DevOps can bring about efficient communication with all the stakeholders including the operations team.
Similarly, one needs to look at open source tools which integrate to give the similar desired results.
So continuous integration of your code with rigorous testing and doing continuous delivery is the key for it.
Once the code is committed, then the entire work of developers is well integrated and the build is performed on a regular basis based on every check-in or schedule.
Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Deployment (CD) are DevOps practices that, when implemented together, can greatly improve the efficiency of development teams, making the process more productive and the end product more stable and effective.
Continuous Integration (CI) is the practice of merging all working copies of developer code to a shared mainline.
In Continuous Integration, the segments of code being integrated are relatively smaller, and each of these are saved and automatically sent to the build server.
In this way, new code segments are built, integrated and tested in a matter of minutes, making it easy for developers to check how well they work.
Quick Testing: With Continuous Integration, automation of test scripts and immediate feedback are made possible.
Easy Resolutions: An issue detected in the code by automated test scripts facilitates speedy resolution by developers and avoids massive development problems.