DevOps stands for “Development and Operations.” It is a set of practices, principles, and cultural philosophies that aim to improve collaboration and communication between software development teams and IT operations teams. The main goal of DevOps is to streamline the software development and deployment process, ensuring a faster and more reliable delivery of software products and services.

DevOps emphasizes the automation of software delivery pipelines, continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD), infrastructure as code (IaC), monitoring, and feedback loops. By breaking down traditional silos between development and operations teams, DevOps encourages a more agile and efficient development lifecycle, leading to shorter development cycles, quicker bug fixes, and increased software quality.