What is Devops Devops is a cultural movement that changes how individuals think about their work, values the diversity of work done, supports intentional processes that accelerate the rate by which businesses realize value, and measures the effect of social and technical change. It is a way of thinking and a way of working that enables individuals and organizations to develop and maintain sustainable work practies. Devops helps to increases an organization's speed to deliver applications and services. In simple words, Devops can be defined as an alignment of development and IT operations with better communication and collaboration. The picture below is about devops lifecycle. The danger for a movement that regards itself as new is that it may try to embrace everything that is not old. -Lee Roy Beach el al,, Naturalistic Decision Making and Related Research